becoming something else. Rather than simply being, everything in this world is becoming. By contrast, the eternal world of God’s ideas is unchanging; it possesses true and permanent being. An individual human person might change in many ways; but the idea (or perfect form) of “humanity” in God’s mind is fixed and eternal – and, therefore, more real than any individual man or woman on earth. The true destiny of human beings, Platonists taught, was to be found by rising above the changing and unreal world of time, and contemplating the eternal ideas in the mind of God, especially the idea of
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