>>24529369
Sort of. The invisible world is often understood as being the origin of the physical world though and I think that’s where a lot of the confusion comes from. The popular reading of Plato’s cave being that the material world exists only in order to be escaped or shunned as a form of degraded knowledge. In reality Plato’s conception of the invisible world was one which ran parallel with the physical one and not above it. The reflections of being in the material world which come from the invisible world are still faithful reflections which offer up knowledge to us. Not to mention that the invisible world is entirely comprehensible to the philosopher; the act of philosophy itself understood as partaking in the invisible world and not the physical one. The physical world is obviously degraded but the forms still make themselves known to the unphilosophical man as well. Even if they are imperfect they are still serviceable. And when they are taken into thought and contemplated by themselves they approach their invisible forms naturally because this is the act of reason itself. The sum total of human knowledge will always approach the invisible like an asymptote.