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Psychic

This level of thinking is the one right above "hylic". It's drive is the intellect, or normal understanding of the mind. Normal religion, politics etc, fall into this world.


This level of thinking is the one right above "hylic", and below "Pneumatophoroi" It"s drive is the intellect, or normal understanding of the mind. While alive in the earthly state, the psychic remains as a hylic. (See also Hoeller, p. 110) "Mankind came to be in three essential types, the spiritual, the psychic, and the material, conforming to the triple disposition of the Logos, from which were brought forth the material ones and the psychic ones and the spiritual ones". ("Tripartite Tractate") "...even Valentine {Valentinus} teaches that Christ"s body was Psychic". ("Stromata", Book 3.) http

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