Plato also explains how individuals and the Forms are related through the Allegories of the Sun and the Cave. The world, he says, is split up into two realms: the visible and the intelligible. The visible realm is made up of everything that is tangible and able to be perceived by our humanly senses. The intelligible world is made up of the Forms or in other words, the abstract, unchanging absolutes like Goodness and Beauty that exist in the universe. They are objects of wisdom that possess unchanging truths that the rational part of our minds set out to fully comprehend. Only the philosopher who is enlightened to understand the Forms is able to realize the Good and to leave the Cave and become exposed to the Sun. The Sun representing being
