A Shapely and Handsome Fable, chapter 2

Philosopher Shapely says, human soul becomes and evolves in the human body, and as the person lives in the physical world, he or she is neither entirely partible, nor entirely impartible. The soul would not divide. The body would need metabolism. Neither would stay alive on Earth without the other.

“In essence, the soul is self-movable”, notes philologue Taylor from Shapely to add, the soul is “in declination from an impartible nature” in this world.

Let us imagine fruit. It has a mineral we know that is regular somewhere far away. The mineral has not traveled to the fruit: it was produced in the fruit from the bud, owing to the Design. We know from life on Earth that minerals we find in fruit or vegetables can have properties in a small yet shift, with regard to minerals we can dig from rock. The minerals yet have quality enough for us to say it is the same matter, in fruit and in rock.

We could say the mineral in fruit is in declination with regard to the mineral in rock. If it came into a good environment, the properties of the fruit mineral would balance, and we would be unable to tell it grew in fruit. The rock is Afterlife, and the fruit is on Earth.

Ancient Egyptians drew the unfortunate conclusion that souls of inferior quality might become consumed, as by an infernal monster in the shape of a dog. In truth, those ancients copied a lot, as Knossos palace patterns for graves, to tell there was heaven. It was in ancient Rome people tied dogs at gates, and those dogs could bite.

The impartible and eternal existence is not a biscuit you could have with tea. More, human souls have infinity. To swallow an “ever-growing pie”, you’d be in trouble, not only a dog.

It was for the impartible that Shapely and Handsome tried theories on how to move about. On Earth and around, it was the partible to let move, said Handsome. In circumstances other than Earth, said Shapely, you could move about via “regression” from your impartible.

To compare swimming, you think about the water on Earth, when you swim. In afterlife you think about yourself somehow. Handsome said, the impartible cannot always depend on local, partible energies.

He compared celestial bodies. They are partible, but they could not have another shape for the mass, and thus they continue in agreement with interval in place, rounded like playing balls. Their movement will yet decline to inertia. Collection into the impartible will follow, where all partible physicality is sorted according to harmony of numbers.

Human souls do not use the interval. Human souls are not of partible matter, and thus none would divide or decline to inertia.

The metaphor, “celestial circulations are produced through the evolved life of soul”, is to say that all partible shapes have cores, those rounded and planetary too. The human soul is the core of the human being, but people spin around only when people want to, and thus no human soul would yield to movement as we can see for celestial bodies.

We know we do not have all the proper shape for the Shapely and Handsome writs, thus we illustrate with ■Homer here: βῆ δ᾽ ἴμεν αἰτήσων ἐνδέξια φῶτα ἕκαστον, πάντοσε χεῖρ᾽ ■ὀρέγων — let us each ask for wise lights, the hand of origin, always…

End of chapter 2.

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