Zoroaster and attractions

Meaning

Zoroastre is the authority to whom Nuysement attributes the name allechemens, attractions or enticements, for the fitness between material forms and the world soul’s seminal reasons. The soul is said to become food and bait for the things that attract it, willingly residing within them. A crucial preceding restriction excludes the ideal intellect itself from being drawn down: it is the soul bearing that intellect’s powers which is attracted. “Attractions” consequently explains an ordered congruity of forms and formative causes, not arbitrary coercion or a named magnetic substance. The passage offers an attribution, not a verified Zoroastrian text or biography.