"Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form."
    "But, whether true or false, my opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and that this is the power upon which he who would act rationally either in public or private life must have his eye fixed.”

    “Moreover, I said, you must not wonder that those who attain to this beatific vision are unwilling to descend to human affairs; for their souls are ever hastening into the upper world where they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural, if our allegory may be trusted.”

    These words taken from Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave," reveal Plato’s vision of the forms.  In this work the philosophizer argues that the ultimate purpose o man is to attain the forms which are the highest level of development that any man can aspire to.  These forms consist of truth, good, beauty, and justice.  The Invisible Man has attained a higher level of being by attaining form.

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