The Essence

Plato taught that Forms were the essence of each thing and person. The Form or Soul was thought to be  what is permanent, singular and unchanging, while the physical or biological body is constantly changing. Still, the essence of the self or thing in question is still what it is over time and despite repeated transformation. Platonic interpretation of reality is that immaterialism and matter participate in each other somehow (he is correct), and this accounts for the unchanging, constant identity of the self or thing over time while ever changing and always being altered.

Does this participation in each other of the same and unchanging versus the differing and changing indicate that change is illusory, while the Forms are derived from the eternal Brahmin that alone is the One, eternal and unaltering? No. Fate is more changing than unchanging but Fe is both at the same time. God is eternal, and more artificial, spiritual than physical, but is changing more than unchanging. The Devil is eternal, but more natural, physical than spiritual, but is unchanging more than changing.

Gong back to Plato, the spiritual spark, the soul, is dynamic and the body, the material, is rather inert, and inactive until worked upon, entered and organized by the Creator, instilling in the matter the elan vital.

How is it that the divinities are changing and unchanging while being eternal? I know that is how they are but cannot prove it. This is one of those mysteries to accept on faith. One day our advancing science and technology my provide a rational answer to this mystery.