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From "The Secret Life of Puppets" by Victoria Nelson
"This emblem of the human simulacrum as an inferior entity manipulated by a superior entity would endure as the primary mainstream emblem of Plato's body-soul relationship throughout later Western culture (and it would be transposed and materialized by Descartes to body-mind in the seventeenth century). The second-century Christian theologian Terullian pronounced that 'the soul moved the body, and its exertions on the inside became visible outside in the same way that the movements of the puppet on the surface are manipulated from the inside'. In his treatise 'De provindentia,' the fourth-century Neoplatonic phiolopher and Christian convert Synesius of Cyrene (later Bishop Ptolemais) drew sophisticated comparison between the effects of God's unremitting influence on humans and puppets that 'still jerk after the hand that controlled them has stopped working the strings.'"
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