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plato’s visible god the cosmic soul reflected in the heavens柏拉图的神可见宇宙灵魂反映在天堂

Religions 2012, 3, 880–886; doi:10.3390/rel3030880 OPEN ACCESS religions ISSN 2077-1444 /journal/religions Article Plato’s Visible God: The Cosmic Soul Reflected in the Heavens George Latura 32 Hemlock Trail, Trumbull, CT 06611, USA; E-Mail: glbeke@; Tel.: +1-203-385-3884 Received: 19 July 2012; in revised form : 2 7 August 2012 / Accepted: 3 September 2012 / Published: 14 September 2012 Abstract: Although Plato states that the perceptible god that he describes in Timaeus is visible to the human eye, the reflection of the Cosmic Soul in the heavens has largely been explained away or forgotten in the Western mind. But Roman texts, early Christian testimony, and Imperial coins illustrate that Plato’s intersection in the heavens played a major role in Hellenistic cosmology and soteriology. Keywords: Plato; Visible God; Cosmic Soul; zodiacal light; Milky Way; intersection 1. The World Soul: Justin Martyr, Proclus and Plato In an open letter addressed to the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, the Christian apologist Justin Martyr argued that the celestial X in Plato‘s Timaeus was a foreshadowing of the Christian cross, a shape that Plato had somehow pilfered from Moses. And the scientific discussion of the Son of God in his Timaeus—when he says: ―He arranged him as an X in the whole‖—Plato took from Moses, and spoke in similar terms. —Justin Martyr, Apology on Behalf of Christians ([1], p. 235) Here Justin conflates the Christian Son of God with Plato‘s Cosmic So