Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades

The text appears to be a fragmented, handwritten commentary on the nature of the Platonic introduction.

... of those desiring to attain?. These things do not seem to me to be a doctrine previously remembered by Plato in this dialogue. And just as they are demonstratively part of the first application of the arguments, they encompass the purpose of the whole letter. For having initiated for him, as we said, it reveals our nature, and it has encompassed our nature not at all in the way defined here by the scientific and dialectical arguments of theory. And it also contains that same Delphic commandment, the gnothi seauton know thyself, which is what carries one away from the revelatory methods. The prologue itself, being brought to the young man, also establishes examinations of the names that were previously underlying. It is not necessary, however, to limit this toward him alone, nor is it among those things of physical episteme knowledge/science, how to examine the holy things, nor is it only the Socratic method of the unrefined; and having neither been released nor having ceased from the former struggles, he began to prepare for others. Having been perfected, it declares the whole nature of our essence. Therefore, the things of the oversight do not bring everything to be borne above or received; rather, it indicates the falling away from its own perfection. Or, on the contrary, he turns to the life of himself, and the epistrophe reversion/turning back which again occurs toward himself, returns according to these same principles, and the future form of the movement. But concerning the turning toward the better, it is not a passion but a law of that which is according to itself and those before it. And the reversion toward himself is toward the better.