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# Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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Poled (Ellentialis Mcludins singularity in it) mishe lcem to harel
ImalIForce or Validity in ic
XII. Buc xirstchis Opinion e Maus Setf. existent Deities, Inde
pendent uxon One supreme, is boch V’ery Errational in it PelE, and alle
plainly Repugnant tothe Phaenomena. We Cay FirIt, it is Prrationat
in ic selE, Decause Sels. existence, and Necessary Existence being Psenti
al EOa PErFCCt Beins and tonochine else, it must necds be very irra
tional and absura to suxpose a Mnttiinde oF imperfect Understand
ins Beines Self. existent, and no perfect One. MOrCOVeF, IF IMper.
Fect Ulnderstandins Beines were imagined toExist OF themselres TrOM
Eternies, chere could not postibly be any realon siven, why just so
many oF ehem Mould exist, andneither MOrenOT L eIS, there beine
indecd no realon wrhy any ac all Bould. But iF it be supposed, thac
theseMany SelF existent Deirieshappened only to Exist thus FrOM
Eternitr, and cheir Existence nocrichctanding, was not Necessars
but Continsent, the Consequence hercot willbe, that ther mightas
ell happen againto cease to be, and (0 conld not be Incorruprible.
Again, iE any one impersect Beins Whatloerer, could exist oF it selstrons
Eternicy; ihen all mistit as well do Po, noc oniy Matter, but alle
the souls oF Men and ocher Animals, and consequently there coute
Be Nocreation by any Dcity, nor those supoled Deiries theretore
deserve That Name. LastIy, e mighe also add, thac chere coule
not be a Mulcitude oE Incellectual Beings SclF existent, becaulc it 15
a chins which may be proved by Reason, thac all Impersect Under
Ctandins Beinss or Minds, do partake of one Perseit Mind, and sux
Pose allo Omnipotence or Insinite Pover; vere it nOE, that this IS 
Consideration iooremote trom Vulgur Apprehention, and theretore
not (0 Ht to bc urged in this place.
Again, as this Opinion OE Many Self. existent Deities, is Trrational u
it CelE, Pois ic likcerise plainly Repuenant to the phaenomena oF the
NVorid. In etrich, as Macrobius vrites, omnia sunt connexa,
thines conspire tosether into One Harmony, and are carried on Peact
ably and Ouietly. Constancly and P avenly, wichout any Tumule a
Turly. burlr, Contusion or Dilorder, or chie lealt appearance ot schist
andFaction; wrtich could noc postibly be suppoled, Were the Wot
Made and Coverned, by a Rabble oE self existent Deities, C oorc
nate, and Indepondentupon Onc Supreme. Wherctore chis kind a
concr cits.I. 1. Polycheilm was obiter chus consured by Origen; bsco SV βeXtior rd ex
s oecopeticor rdoouuor rois n rli araeEiar 1 uoous oeodv 7 orussqu
airo eros oi era, n ovurvéort aure onco cavlco,  dia 2ero un derapels
Io NONIEV Sjuxecor govera cis Sdl ind no Vcr i cov svexeadat inov 7 59
vor nersocor; Hom much bester is it, aereably to rhat me sec in the harma
nions system os theWorid, 10 norstipone only Maker os theWorid, bic
is one, and conspirins thronshont ithits whole sels, and therefore conta
not be made by many artificers, as neither be conteined by Many Sonts
Movine the Whole Heaven? Nom since chis Opinion isboth Trratha
nal in it selE and Repugnant tothe Phaenomena, ctiere is che lels 
babiliey chac ic Moule have been reccived and entercained by all clta
XIII. WhOs
more lacttisent PaganS.