The Tenth Book is divided into three principal topics. The first of these is directed towards a critique of poetry on the grounds that it is mimetic, but not educative of souls. The second establishes the immortality of the soul and reveals its kinship with the divine. The third provides the myth itself, which exhibits providence as a whole, both daemonic and divine, which governs souls both descending into becoming and transcending becoming, and the multi-form ways of each. These being the three subjects, it is clear that the first proposes to separate us from material images (eidôlon) and to lead us up from the illusions (phantasia) of false learning, because these draw us down to the very last of existent things, which are in fact partial (merikos) and imitative of existent things, but do not truly exist themselves, and [to lead us up] from what is simply and entirely a fictive life.