Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades

...of the causes of evils, and only toward the projection of perverse words, but having chosen the purification of the double ignorance; and being praised as the deposition of those being driven away, not even as their benefit, and the therapy in which they act badly; just as, therefore, also in the initiations, our purifications, and sprinklings and cleansings; which of the things done in secrets, and of the participation of the divine, the stains of those who are ignorant, thus it seems also the philosophical ritual to pre-purify, and to pre-prepare, for the knowledge of themselves, and the self-grown theory of our essence. For the whole, so that it is intelligible, so that this is the goal, that of the own good and beauty; of those things lying aside, to all, toward the passions. But that which follows adheres to this intention, as if having taken a conclusion to the lesser salvation through; for the hypothesis of the double ignorance leads, and the exhortation; and thus to it, follows the solution of virtue and the demonstration of happiness, and the knowledge of the ancient arts, as if, therefore, saving them, and its own, and all simply; and as many as are of the evil unjust is lightening, nor is it constructed; but that which is on this white is not a goal rather than the theory of the true essence of our essence, since even if one were to say the end to be the care of ourselves and the knowledge of it, it is not set aside from the way correctly; but let him consider that, the goal as a leader, and as the good existing for us, not appropriate of things to be received; but that which is equal...