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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: irony of Socrates to mix up sense and nonsense in such a way that no exact
line can be drawn between them. And allegory helps to increase this sort
of confusion.
As is often the case in the parables and prophecies of Scripture, the
meaning is allowed to break through the figure, and the details are not
always consistent. When the charioteers and their steeds stand upon the
dome of heaven they behold the intangible invisible essences which are not
objects of sight. This is because the force of language can no further go.
Nor can we dwell much on the circumstance, that at the completion of ten
thousand years all are to return to the place from whence they came;
because he represents their return as dependent on their own good conduct
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