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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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CHAB. IV. The Norld; 10some lhe Lmu OIl. SF
And indecd when the PaganS chus spatce OF a First, second and
Third Ood, and nomore, though havine innumerable other Codsbc.
lides, they did by ehis Languase plainly imply, chac che( Three Cods
t cheirs, vere oF a very difterent kind, trom all the rest oF cheir
Bods; thatis, HOC Deoi reiloi DUE aidtoi, nOL Created, BuF Pternal aud
Oncreated ones. Aud thac many oF them did really take this Whole
trinitus of Cods, Corthe rd ocior in general, ehe Divine Numen, and
Amerimes callit che First God t00, in may oE dictinction trom cheir
Generated Cods; Will bc Moed attermard. S0 chacthe HeCT  OEds
c rirst Cod, Was used in disterent sences by chese Pagans, Cometimes
alarxer sence, and in may oF oppolition to all chc vemiloi ocoi the
Generated or Creaced Cods, or the Cods chat mere made in Fime to.
Secher mich the W orid; and sometime agaiu, more Parciculariy, in
tray ot dittinetion From thole Tuo other Divine Fypostases Eternal
Calledby chem the second and Third Cod. Wrhich Firs OEche Three
bods, is also Frequenetr by ehiem called ocds, God, Emphatically aud by
Hay oC Excellenes, thes suxpotins a Oradual Subordination in chele
principles.
Deicher mas chis Trinity OE Divine subsistences onls chus ill. lau.
d dby chePaxans generally, whenchey calledit a Frinity of Cods;
 allo rhe cabala thercot, was ochermise much Depraved and AduI.
Maed by severaloF che Platonilts and PythaβOreanS. POP FrC, chc
ird ol hese Three Hypostases commonly called Psyche, is by lome
uthem made cobe uu in erusopuos ihe immediate soul of the Corporeal
oria. intormins, aetins, and enlivenins it, alter che lame mauver
che douls oE other Animals do cheir respective Bodies; intomuch
hac chis Corporeat Worid ic set(, as rogettier wich its soul ic mateo
s one complere Animal, was trequemly called che Thira Bod.
S eroctus altirmeth OF Numenius the PxthacOrean, o gd noouos naX
oreers 62I Ocds That ihe Worid accordine 10him, was the Zhird
Cod.
Hnd Plotinus, Beinx a xrCat Readter OF etis Numenius, SCCmS 10
advebeen somemhac infected by tiim wich chis conceicallo, chouxti
ourars co his omn Principles; trom chole morde betored ciced oue
ahim, ousonos Oeds, cis at orundes Nercu, Febroc, the Woridus as is com-
montus said, is the Third Cod.
Aon is ihe W orid BenOca Creature, itien is chere no createc Be-
s ac all, bucall is Cod. BuEnOL Ouly Timaeus LoeruS, buc allo Plato
matelt, calis ic, deior gemuroo chat is, a Created Cod, che ord remurdi
 here pur For thac, which altex it once mas not, is brouxtt into
elB; ihich is FHC PTOPer Norion OF a Creature. S0 chacthie anima-
d Noridis by Plato made tabe onty che chiet OE all che remuloi deoi
Mac 1, ihe Creature Cods. Wheretore ic is plain chac in ehis Fri.
s oE Conic Platonilts and Pythasoreans, wherein che Woridis
de 1O bC Mhe Third Cod, there is a contused sumble oE crea
ed, and 2 nereated Beines tosether. For che rirs oE chole C0ds i5
me Facter and Founrain oF all, or chc Original oF che Codheado
nd ihe Second, torasmuch as he is called by chem, boch nourris arid
oeros the Maker, ane ihe Opisicer of ehe whole Worid, he ctiere-
Forc