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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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ADirine Pheozoime
and anocher God, chat mas truly and properly soia, immutable P
Wrho vas the Causc oF that Generate d Cod, the 2 niverse, and cheretore
OF AIIchines. The orher PaCtage OFPlatoSis pas. AV. OFhis Timaens.
End SV nailEs doDI ZE EDE, HON SOI BaVEpaS n, d001 Dalvorat na b 100 av EDERCO
Deoi, eom Ego, Neyd nec5 avrs5 o rode rd nâv 380moa5, rade, 0cot deat
cor e7co djuseres, nalue 2 287cov, à di Exs, oa. W hen therefore allo
ihe Cods, boih those mhich move visibly abont the Hleavens, and those
mhich appear to us asosten asthey please (chac is bochche Stars ee Demons)
vere Generated or Created; that Cod mhich made this vhole Dniverse,
bespahe these Generated Cods, aster this manner, re Gods. 0f Bod5 (Whom
Emy sels am ihe Maker and Father of) altend. Where ihe rords Deoi
Dear, notmichtandins Proclus his ocher differins conjectures, Pcem 10
have been very vell rendred By Cicero, Dii qui Deorum Satu orti estis.
re Cods Which are the Proseny or Os. sprins of ihe Cods. And che6015
Whole OH. sprinsn chese Generated Gods (che Animated stars and De-
mons) are Paid to be, must necds be thole aidtot Deoi, those Fternal Cods.
elserhere mentioned in che Came Timans, 25 Where che Philo(opher
CalIS che Woric, Es aisticor DE dV zeyoVds aa a Generated or Crea-
ted imace of ihe Eternal Gods; 25 Cicero alto is to be understood ot
chele, When he speales oF the W orids beins Madeby TheCods, and by
checonnsel of The Gods. Nom chele Eiternal Gods oFPlato, Called by his
Follorvers Deoi vaneoor, he Supramundane Cods, choushr accordins 10
chac Aricter Nocionol themord zcas, asic isused boch in Plato and
Aristotle, Cor a Temporary Production of thines és su dircoi, they vere in-
decd all arémisos, becaule cher never mere not, and had no beginnins
OFcheir Existence: Vet nocmichstandins vere they noc cheretore sup.
Poled by chatPhilolopher, 10 bc aII avreroros and av dumlsaros (0 many
Sels. oricinated and s’els subsistent Beines, Or First Principles, bue ouly
One oE chem such; and cherest derived Erom chacOne: it beins very
true, a5 we conccive, wtrac Proctus altirms, dn o nNeror 67 ular aexuv ave In Zima. P. 116
2d raevrae, That Plato reduces al Thines to One Principle, evenMaIerit
TeIF; bec unguestionable phat he derivech aII his Oods Fromone. Where-
Fore alI chole Eternal Gods oE Plato (One only excepted) chouch chey
WeTCNOE QVTOI Or Generated in one PencC, THat IS X3 XCCVOV, 25 10 2
Temporarr bexinning, yet vere cher nocrichstandins as Proclus di-
Pinonistech. Voilos an’airias Generated in anocher sence, asproduced
from a Superiour cause, chere beins orly One lueh ayseile One Inge-
nerate or 2nproduced Deity. Thusaccordins 10 Plato, there vere Two
TOrrs OF Secundary Ox Inferiour and Derivative Cods, Pirethe. Deoi etubo juoi
Or Mundane Cods, Cuch ashad alloE them a Temporary Generation wich
the World, and oE ihom Platos Theogonia and 3Vveod5 DEaV IS PFOper-
Iy to beunderstood; And Secondly the iapnboiuo and aidtoi Deoi, ihC
Supramundane and Eternal Cods, wtrich vere II oF them AI(O, (aVC
ouly One, produced trom chac One, and dependent on ic as cheir
Cause. But OE chele Inseriour Eternal Cods, oF che Platonists and
Prrhasoreans, e are 10speak again altermards. In che mean time
it is evident, thac in chac Paltase of Platos betore cited, chere is
Plain mention made, boch OFDEOIseo eroites, OE Dii Orti, Gods mho
vere made or Generated rich the Worid, and oF o rbdC rd neer onioE.
of One Ood who mas the maker of them, and oE the WVhole Universe.
iho cheretore is timlels every may ayeulos Dnmade or Dnproduced.
And
CHAB. IV.