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... , unformed matter into harmony, shaping chaos into individual beings. Plato's disciples would insist that God or the One is beyond our reach, but that by philosophical contemplation, the soul could ascend to its natural place, which is in the heavens with the Logos, and thus come to know all things. Justin's apology is in some ways modeled on another philosopher's great ... ...
... and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual". We must live our lives in the attempt to ascend our "soul into the intellectual world" like the prisoner who was introduced to the reality. In our effort to attain that absolute truth we will also attain the good, making ... ...
... mortal life or, as I may call it, living death." (Confessions 6) After death he can leave his sinful body behind and his immortal soul can join God. His free soul can ascend to heaven where his bodily desires will no longer impede his attempts at reaching the true joy of knowing God. Augustine's views are enforced through Christ. Christ was God in ... ...
