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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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Altered by Junior Platonicts.
Pestimony oF Theodoret in his BoOle De Principio, Tw HNaTCVO Diue
nour eirae ) basovtES a HINCoriVO n, o NSulO, re la Daoir au  cienxtrat iné
Zeora i aidae, r aeree Dev, n, v3V, n, 23 raertos ro Wuxlu. or pet incis rare-
ex naNS Taza Dor orqua ZoVEC, NSr ; du ieis NoyOV recoayoeou T
Drue nailae L7 SoceV sis EcoonoSocer duvaejum, uX lu na NSvlee, in TVevCC à yioV
oi Deiot XeBOAYOesSOr NO7oI. n TaVTA 3, ex ~ EBealoV BinooPiaE iy Deo-
doyias ocodnelat. Plotinus and Numenius explainins Platos Sence, de
clare bim 10 have asserted, Three Super. Temporals or Eternals, G0od
Mind or Intellect, and ihe soul of the 2 niverse; he calline ihat Ta-
Sachon mhich 10 us is Father, that Mind or Intellect, which 10 us is
Son or Word, and that Plychie or a Pover Animatine and Enlivenine
all rhines, which our Scriptures call the Foly Chost. And these thines
laict hC) mere by Plato purtoined, from the Philosophy and Theolosy of
ihe Hebrens.
Wherchore we cannot buc take notice Here oF a Wondertul Provi.
dence oE AImigher God, chac chis Docerine ol a Frinity oE Divine
Sypostases, Chould sind sucti Admictance and Entertainment in che Pa-
San Worid, aud be receired by che wisest oF all their Philo.
copters. Belore che cimes oF Christianity; therCbY LO PrCPArE L
ore ealie way For etie Reception oF Chriltianicy amone(t the L caru-
PaganS. Which thac ic proved successtul accordinsly, is unde-
nIabIy EVIAENE TTOM FHC MONUMENES OE Anciguitr. Andche Juniour
laconists, utio vere most oppolice and adverse eo Christianitr, be-
Came ac lengh (o sensible hercot, chat betides cheir octier Adultera-
onsoE he Trinicy betore mentioned, For che countenancins oc
her Polytheism and sdolatry, they did in all probabiliey For chis very
Calon, quire innovate, chanse and pervert che Whole cabala, ane
blonger achnomledse a Trinity, buc cither a Quaternity or a Dui-
hary, OT mOrC OF Divine Hypostases. They CrIE OF all contendins.
uat belore che Frinity, chere iras anoctser Supreme and Hiehest Hypo-
lasis, not 1o be reckoned wich the ochers, bui standins alone by him-
SelE.
And me conceire, the srst Innovator in this kind, to have
Been Tamblichus, irho in his F gyprian MyCceries, Where he sceis to
ate che P oyprian Theoloer coaeree wich his oun Hypotheses, Wri
echin ehis manveT; req =s dilcos diicor, u  ONCV aerv, 63 Dedt
B nBCorS, H T XeCOTS DES n, BaSiNEciS. aniniloS et MOOEN ~ CaS E
orulos peticor. 22 zd vons au r 6)n Nerslat, 3 a Mo n. dq ua
Deblat rI avrenToCGC aVTogorS  pCOVONTDe55 D S 73 oilcis a z D3. Mei
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Secot dilcov. a nd 3 2V Eves 757S, o avraenns Deos, cavs esenaur, dio nai
durondrae nat avraenns aexn zd SrOC nat DEoS DECV povE Cn 28 Evos
lectous nos c’exu d solas. Before those thines whichtruly are, and ihe
Principles os all, there is One God Superiour totheF irst Cod, and Kine.
immovable; and alvays remainine in the solitude os his oon 2nity:
here beine nothine Incellieible nor any thine else mineled mith bim:; but
de beine ihe Paradiem of that God truly Good, whieh is Sels. begotren
und his oron earent. For this is greater, and before him, and the
conntainos all thines; the foundation os all the first Intellisible Ideas,
Vheresore from ihis one, did thac sels sufficient Cod, vho is AUILOPR
Or or bis oon Parent, cause bimsels to sbine forth, for ibis is also a
Principle
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