The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 212
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- P. 116, 112.
- BOOK
- he Heliodian ou
- PasanS, Fhat Cither there mas but one oF them only self- existent, ot
- elle None at aII. Because Hesiods Cods vere cicher aIl oE them de-
- rived From Chaos (OPthC Flotine Water) LovCit SclE beins Generated
- likerise out oF it (accordins tothat aristophanick Tradition betore
- mentioned) or else Love was suppoled eobe a distinet Principle From
- Chaos, namely the Active Principle oEche Ulniverse, From Wrhenceto.
- secher wich Chaos, all ehe Theosonia and Cosmoeonia was derived.
- NOI IE ChC FORMEF OF TMeSC WErE ErVC, That Hesiod supposed aII HiS
- Oods lniversally, tohare been Generated and spruns Originally From
- Chaos or theocean, thenit is plain that notmichstandins III FhaF Rab-
- ble oF Gods multer dupbr him, he could beno ocher than One ot
- those atheistiok Theosonists belorementioned, and really ackenon
- ledgedno God at all, accordins torte True Idea oF him; he beins
- nOc a Theilt, Who admits oE nO Self. existent Deiry. But it the
- Latter Detrue, that Hesiod suppoled Love 1o bca Principle distinet
- trom Chaos, namely etie Active Principle oF the Univerle, and de
- rived allhis ocher Gods Fromthence, he as then a right Pasanick
- Theist, such as acknom ledsed indeed Many Cods, but only one d
- them Onmade and Setf. existent, all the restbeine Generated or Cre
- aced by chat One. Indeed it appears trom thole Paltages oF Ar
- storle betore cited by us, that thât Philolopher had been Fometimes
- divided in his Judement concernins Hestod, Wwhere he Mould
- rank him, Whetheramons che Atheists Or the Theists. For in his BOOK
- de Celo, hre rantes him amonsst those, who made all chinss 10 be6
- nerated and Corrupted, besides the Bare substance of ihe Matter, thau
- is amonsst the absolute arheists, and lool duxon him a5 a Rinsleac
- ex OE chem: buc in his Metaphysicks, uxon Further choughs,
- suspects chat many oE thole whomade Love the Chicfest OF theOOds
- vere Theists, chey suxpolins it to be a First Principle in che lniverle, o
- the Active Cause OEthings, aud that not only Parmenides, but allo Hestoa
- was Tuch. Which Lacter Opinion or his isby Farthe more probable,
- and cheretore embraced by Plutareh, Who Comelere determines Hest
- odto have asterted One Deor a rmnilov, or Vnmade Deity, a5 al(o by the aH
- cient Scholias upon him, vrit Thus, THaE Festods LOVC WaS a se
- os Eelic, d5 n O2b5 o yd EE ADCgdrus vecorce i5 6V The Heavenly Lover
- which is also Cod. that otber Love that mas born of V enUS, beins
- nior. But Joannes Diaconus: Eecora ) erravda von 2toV, 5 7 ~ 1
- Sirns naida, nâs q ~ pnte c5 pnco y goriiaS, 3TO ad Dgi ZLTRI, aM at
- NOV nia recoBVE Eecila, ojuaet ) Tu esraele C napu u quoincis nevlimv
- riaer cncisco r oitcor. By Love here (Paith. hc) me must not understanc
- Venusher Son, whose Mother vas as pet Vnborn, but another more at
- cient Love, which Trake to be the active Cause or Principle of Motion;
- Naturally inserted into thines. Where though hedo nocscem tolut
- Dose this Loretobe Ood himselE, y et he conceiresit to be an ActM
- erinciple inche Tluiverse derived trom Ood, and nOL FTOM MAHICI.
- Buc chis Opinion will be Further contirmed astermard.
- Thenext considerable appearance oF a Mulcitude oF self. existent
- Deities, Ceems cobe in the Valentinian Thirry Cods and Zons, Whict
- have been taken by Come For such; but it is certain chac thele were
- alloE them Cave One, Generated; chex beins derired by chac Phat
- tastick
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 212. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0232?run=74