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The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

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SYNTHESIS OF UNIVERSAL.COfVilVlUNIONTo remain outsideall systematic philosophy<strong>and</strong> all religion, let us take as idealtype, <strong>the</strong> <strong>soul</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> pure <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> just man,which <strong>the</strong> ancient <strong>and</strong> recent philosophersare not able to deny on account <strong>of</strong> his religiousspirit, let us take <strong>the</strong> <strong>soul</strong> <strong>of</strong> Socrates.For this man, three needs, three charms,three desires :<strong>the</strong> necessity <strong>of</strong> absorbing,<strong>of</strong> assimilating <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> projecting threematerial, vital <strong>and</strong> psychic substances.Like everybody, his material body consumedabout five hundred grammes <strong>of</strong> alimentarysubstances,each meal ;bread, meat or vegetablesfifteen hundred grammes <strong>of</strong> wateror <strong>of</strong> liquid; he brea<strong>the</strong>d <strong>the</strong> desirednumber <strong>of</strong> cubic metres <strong>of</strong> air in <strong>the</strong> gardenswhere he instructed <strong>the</strong> youthful ; <strong>the</strong> sungave him <strong>the</strong> two thous<strong>and</strong> calorieswithwhich he ba<strong>the</strong>d his body, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> physicaltransformations, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> act <strong>of</strong> assimilation— 156 —

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