Iribe, Paul

Posłańcy Zeusa, aniołowie i archaniołowie u Porfiriusza z Tyru

“…universe (ἀγγέλοις […] συνδημιουργοῦσι τὰ ὅλα), while according to the "Platonists" these souls: (b) contemplate the gods' order, and (d) rotate together with the angels or accompany them (συμπεριπολοῦσιν) -the verb συμπεριπολέω has both meanings: "to rotate with" and "to accompany" 62 . The souls of the distinguished dead reside in heaven, and although they are not angels, they belong to their order (τάξις) and perform the typical angelic functions 63 . "The ancients" portrayed the role of souls as more active, perhaps Iamblichus had in mind what Plato in the Phaedrus (246b) called the soul's care of all things inanimate.…”