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of all that had
befallen them, and that when he himself drew near they told him that he must
be the messenger1 to mankind to tell them of that other world,2 and they charged him to give ear and to observe
everything in the place. And so he said that here he saw, by each opening of
heaven and earth, the souls departing after judgement had been passed upon
them, while, by the other pair of openings, there came up from the one in
the earth souls full of squalor and dust, and from the second there came
down from heaven a second procession of souls clean and pure,
1 Cf. the rich man's request that a messenger be sent to his brethren, Luke xvi. 27-31.
2 ἐκεῖ: so in 330 D, 365 A, 498 C, Phaedo 61 E, 64 A, 67 B, 68 E, Apol. 40 E, 41 C, Crito 54 B, Symp. 192 E. In 500 D and Phaedr. 250 A it refers to the world of the ideas, in 516 C and 520 C to the world of the cave.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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