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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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P. 116, 112.
BOOK
he Heliodian ou
PasanS, Fhat Cither there mas but one oF them only self- existent, ot
elle None at aII. Because Hesiods Cods vere cicher aIl oE them de-
rived From Chaos (OPthC Flotine Water) LovCit SclE beins Generated
likerise out oF it (accordins tothat aristophanick Tradition betore
mentioned) or else Love was suppoled eobe a distinet Principle From
Chaos, namely the Active Principle oEche Ulniverse, From Wrhenceto.
secher wich Chaos, all ehe Theosonia and Cosmoeonia was derived.
NOI IE ChC FORMEF OF TMeSC WErE ErVC, That Hesiod supposed aII HiS
Oods lniversally, tohare been Generated and spruns Originally From
Chaos or theocean, thenit is plain that notmichstandins III FhaF Rab-
ble oF Gods multer dupbr him, he could beno ocher than One ot
those atheistiok Theosonists belorementioned, and really ackenon
ledgedno God at all, accordins torte True Idea oF him; he beins
nOc a Theilt, Who admits oE nO Self. existent Deiry. But it the
Latter Detrue, that Hesiod suppoled Love 1o bca Principle distinet
trom Chaos, namely etie Active Principle oF the Univerle, and de
rived allhis ocher Gods Fromthence, he as then a right Pasanick
Theist, such as acknom ledsed indeed Many Cods, but only one d
them Onmade and Setf. existent, all the restbeine Generated or Cre
aced by chat One. Indeed it appears trom thole Paltages oF Ar
storle betore cited by us, that thât Philolopher had been Fometimes
divided in his Judement concernins Hestod, Wwhere he Mould
rank him, Whetheramons che Atheists Or the Theists. For in his BOOK
de Celo, hre rantes him amonsst those, who made all chinss 10 be6
nerated and Corrupted, besides the Bare substance of ihe Matter, thau
is amonsst the absolute arheists, and lool duxon him a5 a Rinsleac
ex OE chem: buc in his Metaphysicks, uxon Further choughs,
suspects chat many oE thole whomade Love the Chicfest OF theOOds
vere Theists, chey suxpolins it to be a First Principle in che lniverle, o
the Active Cause OEthings, aud that not only Parmenides, but allo Hestoa
was Tuch. Which Lacter Opinion or his isby Farthe more probable,
and cheretore embraced by Plutareh, Who Comelere determines Hest
odto have asterted One Deor a rmnilov, or Vnmade Deity, a5 al(o by the aH
cient Scholias upon him, vrit Thus, THaE Festods LOVC WaS a se
os Eelic, d5 n O2b5 o yd EE ADCgdrus vecorce i5 6V The Heavenly Lover
which is also Cod. that otber Love that mas born of V enUS, beins 
nior. But Joannes Diaconus: Eecora ) erravda von 2toV, 5 7 ~ 1
Sirns naida, nâs q ~ pnte c5 pnco y goriiaS, 3TO ad Dgi ZLTRI, aM at
NOV nia recoBVE Eecila, ojuaet ) Tu esraele C napu u quoincis nevlimv 
riaer cncisco r oitcor. By Love here (Paith. hc) me must not understanc
Venusher Son, whose Mother vas as pet Vnborn, but another more at
cient Love, which Trake to be the active Cause or Principle of Motion;
Naturally inserted into thines. Where though hedo nocscem tolut
Dose this Loretobe Ood himselE, y et he conceiresit to be an ActM
erinciple inche Tluiverse derived trom Ood, and nOL FTOM MAHICI.
Buc chis Opinion will be Further contirmed astermard.
Thenext considerable appearance oF a Mulcitude oF self. existent
Deities, Ceems cobe in the Valentinian Thirry Cods and Zons, Whict
have been taken by Come For such; but it is certain chac thele were
alloE them Cave One, Generated; chex beins derired by chac Phat
tastick