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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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Matter, not 10 al Pac. IImmade B00K I.
Postales jornely concurrins. And as FOr Matter Or Body it SCIE;
ic is certain alio, thac Plotinus, Corphyrius, Tamblichus, Hieroctes.
Platonists, expresty denied it cor have been ageuuror, Onmade, Ox
Proctus and ocher sels. Existent, and conceired it to have deri
red its whole Beine trom ihe Deicy; Wrho accordinely is Ayled by
Proclus, aeen airtae d inus, The Ineffable Cause of Matter. In like
manner have we already Morred, chacaccordins coche Chalday Ora-
cles, Matrer it selF Was also Cansed ox Produced by theDciey, to whictu
purpose is chis Verse Ciced by Proctus,  Erder ad DecONd WVEOS TONV
nomNS SAnS. From whence (Fhat is, From the Deity) abundantly sprines
forth the Generation of the Multisorm Matter. THC WECTeF Here re-
quirins, thac it Bould beread actu, and not aedu, as ic is in Proclus
his Copy. Moreorer Lamblichus hathrecorded in his AyCeries, thac
Eermes, and che old Forptian TBeolocers likcerile, Beld matter nOE1O
Be ageuror, chat is, sels. Existent. Onmade, or Vnderived trom thc
Deity, but eo have been Cansed by ic. Whence does Proclus con-
Thus Hiero clude it probable, chaE Plato as OF che lame Pertvation al(o; 25
eles in Pbo
likevise orphens betore had been, he deriving this as is supposed
rezor Deor with ochex things From the FByptians. Ttis erue indecd, chac many
ius: du
regioisnon oF chele Philolophers, asterted Matrer, Souls, and the Whole Worid,
iMINaeraV tohare been Eternal wichont Bepinnine, and Consequentiy not Cre-
nolons eu atCd, EE sn oiscor, in chat pricter Sense, that is, out ot an Antecedene
DaVSS. TE H Non. Existence in time. Norwichstandins whick, cher did suppole
aourssca chemcohare receiredcheir Whole Beins From che Deity, and co tave
Depended on it, every jor esmuch, as it havins once Nocbeen, they
reginone had atcermard been Made by it. And chat erhich sires toany Sub.
HOO pnOECdE
esc undtevo
Ers Zy Aance its Whole Beine choughtrom lternity, (0 chat IE never was Not3
onptrns ec. the same upon Suppolition, thac it once had not been, could unque-
elato censuit Bionably have Produced iE, Es su dilcor, Ont of Nothine, Or an ante-
Munaum a cedent Non. Fxistence.
We pare non sufticienely disproved The FruthOE chat ACTerrion
Thac Nothine conld be Made ont of Norhine, in the Acheistick senle
chereOT; viz. That Nothine which besore mas Not, conld aftermards
possibly be Made to Be: Thouoh chis hould nocbe Fxtended (0 Far.
a5 C0 Accidental Thines, and Modifications, but restraived and contined,
Ouly 0 substantials: That no substance whatsoever, contd have a Nem
nes of Beine, or be Caused by any other substance; but whatloever Sub-
stantiat Thine any whereTs in che Worid, the lame did F. XistOF IE SCIE
trom eternier, and Independenely uxon any chins elle; nochine but
different Modifications beins Made ox Produced. Which (amC ANCE-
tion, has been also sometimes, ochermile thus expressed; Nothine can
be Made but ont of Pre. Existine substance; che meanins hercof beins
ehis, ThacNothine canbe Made, buc Nem Accidental Modifications, O
irtrat betore substantially Was; no substance it selE beins Make
able ox Producible by any ocher substance, neicher in Time ((0 a810
hrave a Neness or Besinnine oF Beins) nor ret trom Eternity. Where
che Acheists and some ortiers takeins it FOr BTanECd, That there is ne
Ochex substance Belides Body, Or Matter, do Furcher limit and reltrain
the Sen(C OE chat Propolition in this manner: Nothine can be Made
but ont os ere emistine Malter; chac 1d, Wosbine can be Made, buc oud
Deo ex nul-
la prius ex-
istente Mate.
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