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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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CHAP. IV
Poetical and Phancastical.
non but the Frue Prety lefr; he who is morstripped by us Christians, beine
the onty True Cod, the Lord of Nature, and ihe Maker os all substances.
erom ntience me may observe, chat accordins to Athanastus, etie Pa
san Poetick Cods, vere no Real Thines in Nature, and cheretore chey
couldbeno octer, chan che Several Nosions and Povers of the One
Supreme Cod Deisied, Or severat Names of Bim. 50 chat athanastus his.
eoetick Cods, Or oi codd rourrais pvdobouquoi Deoi, Cods fabulousty de
vised bythe Poers, vere chieAy thole Two RindsoF Pagan GOdS, FirsF
ventioned by us; chat is, Che Varions Considerations OF the OnC SU-
Preme Numen, acccordins co its general Norion, expresed by Co many
Proper Names: and Sccondly his Particular Povers diffuse d thorouxh
ihe Worid, Severally personated and Deisied. Which considered,
as lomany distinet Deicies, are nochins buc meere Fiction and Phan-
 Wirhout any Reality. And ehis do che Pasans themselves in A-
pbanasius, aetenomedse, joces qd cis auroi Duor, ny rae ovoala HEA NaSHI, P. Id
, su Ea pssie oncos 265, 3dE Keg, 3dE Heg, sdE AeuS. nnec HOVTa
IOTEC) Cos Srraes oi nCUTaI reoS a nar  anSoVTCOV, They say, that tBe
hames of ihose Cods are meerly Fictitions, and that tbere does no mhere
Really Exist any such supiter, orSaturri, or Juno, or Marsibut thatthe Poets
have feiened ihem. 10 be so many persons Existine, tothe deception ol
heir auditors. Nocwichstanding irtich, chac Zhird Sort oF Pagan Oods
Momentioned by us, Which mere tnanimate substances and thC Na-
curesos Thines Deisced, max well be accourted Poericat cods lilee-
lle; because chouxh chose chines chemsetres be Real and noi
vet is their personation and Deisication meer Fiction
peiened
ud Phaney: and homever che tirst occalionchereot spruns, trom chis
heolosicat Opinion ox Pertiration, That Cod who is In Al Thines.
ind is ihe canse os al Thines, ought to be morshipped In Al Thines.
peciallus be beins him (elE Envisible; yet chie makcins oE chole chinso
emselres cheretore to be l0 many Persons and Cods, was vortiine
uc Poetick Fiction and Phantastry, accordinsly a5 their old Mytholos
and allegorical Fables oE the Cods, run much uxon chisstrain.
LXIV. Hicherto hiare we declared ite Sence oF the Pagans in
beneral, ihose altobeins included, who suppoled Ood to bc à Beine
Plevared above the Worid, Thac cher axrecd in chele Zuo Thines. Firse
de Breakins and Crumblins asit vere, oC the simple Deity, and Par-
elline OuF OE che Tame into Many Parricular Nocions aud Partias
Oulderations, accordins co che Various Manilectations, oEits Pomer
bd Providence in che worid; by che Perlonatins and Deityins OF
es deverally, chey madeas it vere, 10 Many Bods ot one. The
et Cround mhereot mas chis, because chey considered not che
ry accordins coirs simple Nature, and abstract ly only; but Con-
retelus also wich che WVorid, as he Displayerh himsele cherein, Perva-
arid Dissuseth his Vertues choroush aII. For astheSun re.
deth2
ecedbys Croler Vapours, is sometimes Mulciplicd, and rhe (amC
object beheld chroush a Polyedrons Class, by realon oE chole many
superticies, beins reprelented in several places at once, is cherebi
endred Mavitold to ihe Spectator; 50Onc and che Pame Supreme
od, considered Concretety wich che Worid as Manifestine his severat
omers and vertues in it, was mulciplied into Sereral Names, not wich.
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