How does the soul enter the body from the aloofness of the intellectual world? The answer is, through appetite. But appetite, though sometimes ignoble, may be comparatively noble. At best, the soul “has the desire of elaborating order on the model of what it has seen in the Intellectual Principle (nous).” That is to say, soul contemplates the inward realm of essence, and wishes to produce something, as like it as possible.
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The fitchew nor the soiled horse goes to’t with a more riotous appetite.
In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.
If I wanted to eat an apple, and someone punched me in the stomach, taking away my appetite, then it was this punch that I originally wanted.