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Κἂν θεραπεύησθε φαρμάκοις (κατὰ συγγνώμην ἐπιτρέπω σοι), τὴν μαρτυρίαν προσάπτειν σε δεῖ τῷ θεῷ. Κόσμος γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἔτι καθέλκει, καὶ δι ἀτονίαν τὴν ὕλην ἐπιζητῶ. Πτέρωσις γὰρ ἡ τῆς ψυχῆς τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ τέλειον, ὅπερ ἀποῤῥίψασα διὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἔπτη ὥσπερ νεοττὸς καὶ χαμαιπετὴς ἐγένετο· μεταβᾶσα δὲ τῆς οὐρανίου συνουσίας τῶν ἐλαττόνων μετουσίαν ἐπεπόθησεν. Μετῳκίσθησαν οἱ δαίμονες, ἐξωρίσθησαν οἱ πρωτόπλαστοι· καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀπ οὐρανοῦ κατεβλήθησαν, οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ γῆς μὲν ἀλλ οὐκ ἐκ ταύτης, κρείττονος δὲ τῆς ἐνταυθοῖ διακοσμήσεως. Καὶ χρὴ λοιπὸν ἡμᾶς ἐπιποθήσαντας τὸ ἀρχαῖον παραιτήσασθαι πᾶν τὸ ἐμποδὼν γινόμενον.Οὐκ ἔστι γὰρ ἄπειρος ὁ οὐρανός, ὦ ἄνθρωπε, πεπερασμένος δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τέρματι· τὰ δὲ ὑπὲρ τοῦτον, αἰῶνες οἱ κρείττονες, οὐ μεταβολὴν ὡρῶν ἔχοντες δι ὧν ποικίλαι νόσοι καθίστανται, πάσης δὲ εὐκρασίας μετειληφότες, ἡμέραν ἔχουσι διαμένουσαν καὶ φέγγος τοῖς ἐντεῦθεν ἀνθρώποις ἀπρόσιτον, Οἱ μὲν οὖν τὰς γεωγραφίας ἐκπονέσαντες, μέχρις ἦν δυνατὸν ἀνθρώπῳ, τῶν χωρίων τὴν ἀναγραφὴν ἐποιήσαντο· τὰ δὲ ἐπέκεινα λέγειν οὐκ ἔχοντες, διὰ τὸ ἀδύνατον τῆς θεωρίας, ἀμπώτεις ᾐτιάσαντο, καὶ θαλαττῶν τὴν μὲν πρασώδη, τὴν δὲ πηλώδη, τόπων δὲ τῶν μὲν τὸ ἔκπυρον, τῶν δὲ τὸ ψυχρὸν καὶ διαπεπηγός. Ἡμεῖς δὲ τὰ ὑφ ἡμῶν ἀγνοούμενα διὰ προφητῶν μεμαθήκαμεν, οἵτινες, ἅμα τῇ ψυχῇ πεπεισμένοι ὅτι πνεῦμα τὸ οὐράνιον ἐπένδυμα τῆς θνητότητος κεκτήσεται, τὰ ὅσα μὴ ἐγίνωσκον αἱ λοιπαὶ ψυχαὶ προὔλεγον. Δυνατὸν δὲ παντὶ γυμνητεύοντι κτήσασθαι τὸ ἐπικόσμημα καὶ πρὸς τὴν συγγένειαν τὴν ἀρχαίαν ἀναδραμεῖν
縱然你受藥物醫治（我姑且讓步准你如此），你仍當把見證歸給神。因為世界仍拖累著我們，我也因軟弱而渴求物質。原來魂的羽翼乃是那全備的靈，魂因罪把它拋棄了，便像雛鳥一樣飛落，成了貼地而行的；它既離了屬天的交契，便貪戀分享那些較卑下之物。眾鬼魔被遷離原處，那最初受造的人也被放逐了；前者從天上被摔下，後者則從地上——卻不是從如今這地，乃是從一個比此處更佳的秩序中——被逐出。如今我們既渴慕那古時的狀態，所當作的便是摒棄一切成為攔阻之物。人哪，天並非無邊無際的，乃是有限而有界的；那在天以上之物——那些更佳的世代——並沒有季節的更替（疾病種種正是藉此而生），乃是分得了萬般的調和，擁有常存的白晝，以及一道為此下界之人所不能靠近的光輝。那些在地理學上勞苦的人，盡人所能地記錄了各地的方域；但他們既因無從觀測而不能述說那以外之事，便推說有退潮，又說海有的長滿海藻、有的滿是泥濘，地有的灼熱、有的冰冷凝結。但我們卻藉眾先知學到了我們所不知的事；這些先知連同他們的魂都深信，那屬天的靈必得著必死性的外衣作披覆，便預言出其餘的魂所不知道的事。凡赤身之人都能得著那妝飾，奔回那古時的親緣關係。
And even if you are treated with drugs (I permit it to you by way of concession), you ought to attach the testimony to God. For the world still drags us down, and through weakness I crave matter. For the soul's plumage is the perfect spirit, which, having cast it off on account of sin, the soul flew like a fledgling and became earth-bound; and having departed from heavenly fellowship, it longed for participation in the lesser things. The demons were removed from their place; the first-formed were banished; and the former were cast down from heaven, but the latter from the earth—yet not from this present earth, but from an ordering better than the one here. And it remains for us henceforth, having longed for the ancient state, to renounce everything that becomes an obstacle. For the heaven is not boundless, O man, but finite and bounded; and the things above it—the better aeons—not having any change of seasons through which manifold diseases are established, but having partaken of every good temperature, possess an abiding day and a radiance inaccessible to the men here below. Now those who labored at geographies made, as far as was possible for man, the record of the regions; but, being unable to speak of the things beyond, on account of the impossibility of observation, they alleged the ebb-tides, and that of seas one is weed-grown, another muddy, and that of places some have fieriness, others coldness and being frozen solid. But we have learned the things unknown to us through the prophets, who, being persuaded together with their souls that the heavenly spirit will gain the over-garment of mortality, foretold the things which the rest of the souls did not know. And it is possible for everyone who goes naked to gain the ornament and to run back up to the ancient kinship.