Talk:Unfolding of Creation

Edward Carpenter

Speaks of how Ideas/Archetypes unfold

Thus Plato feigns in the “Timasus” that the universal spirit of God handed over the seeds of the immortal, imperishable Ideas to the lesser gods, who, each according to the race of men or animals over which he presided, was to embody these seeds in external forms. Thus the various races of living creatures arose—all vivified from within by the eternal Ideas, yet all having their various structures according to their races, and the genius of the particular god presiding over the race.