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Individual souls have the same overall structure as the principle of Soul, but they are weaker.
They have a tendency to be fascinated with the material world, and be overpowered by it.
It is at this point that individual souls are united with a material body ( i. e. when they are born ).
Once in the body, our passions have a tendency to overwhelm our reason.
According to Proclus, philosophy is the activity which can liberate the soul from a subjection to bodily passions, remind it of its origin in Soul, Intellect, and the One, and prepare it not only to ascend to the higher levels while still in this life, but to avoid falling immediately back into a new body after death.
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