 Whitehead’s view of God as a single actual entity is arguably one factor that prevented him from taking the Platonic analogy as a serious proposal. His remarks on the topic are entirely negative. He called the Timaeus Plato’s “most unfortunate essay in mythology,” and he referred to the idea of the World-Soul, considered as an emanation, as “the parent of puerile metaphysics” (Whitehead 1933, 166; ch. VIII, sec. VI). Whitehead read the dialogue through the lens of neo-Platonism, conceiving the world-soul as an emanation from a wholly transcendent demiurge. Hartshorne agrees that this is not the solution to the problem of permanence and flux. However, Hartshorne sees in Plato’s myth the elements of a solution, provided the demiurge and the world-soul are not separate deities, but aspects of the same deity. For this reason, Hartshorne says that Whitehead rejected the analogy for “weak reasons” (Hahn 1991, 642).