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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 219

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  1. CMAP. IV. Os a Substantial Lvil Principle
  2. the Maccer is Caid by Plato, cohave been Moved disorderly, we con
  3. ceire chat chat Philolopher did cherein only adhere eo chac VulBF-
  4. ly receired Pradition, irhich mas Originally Motaical, chac ctic
  5. First becimmine ot he Cosmopaeia, Was Trom a Chaos, OP Mlater con
  6. suseciy moved, alcermard brouxhe inco Order. And non mechinte
  7. IE plainle appears, chac chere is no ltrenseh ac aIl in any ol elutarches
  8. Forementioned Allexations, nor any sueh Monster 10 be Found any
  9. Wrhere in Plato, 25 eis substantial Fvit Principle or Cod, a Wicked
  10. Soul or Demon, Unmade and SelF. existent From Pternier, OppoTue
  11. and Inimicons eo the 600d Cod, Charins che empire and Domini-
  12. on OF che Woria wich him. Which Opinion is really nochins clse
  13. bucche Deispine of the Devil, or Prince oFlvil Spiries, makcin him
  14. a Coerival wich Ciod, and enticlins him 10 a Rixhc oF reccivins D1.
  15. vine Hlonour and Worctip.
  16. And it is observable chat Plutareh himselE consessech chis Incerpre-
  17. tation which he matces oF Plato, to be Nem and Paradoxical. Or an
  18. Invention oE his omn, ii dide rd ANcisoIS. d a nd HNATCVO V EraSaI, Psych. 5. P. L. 1X
  19. deduuor naequdia Such as becanse it mas contrary to ihe Generally
  20. received opinion os platonists, himsels thoueht to stand in necdos some
  21. Apolosy and Defence. To wtrich purpose cherctore he adds again.
  22. ReCOTOV ZV V L7o CdC TSTCV Dlavoiuer, en Duooua nissu 7 Cinbr, 1 P. 1014.
  23. racequvosuhoO aS Evesi, rd aandes 28 NoyS, naeddoEor. Iwil (Paith
  24. HC) declare mine oon Opinion first concernine these thines, consirmine
  25. it mith Probabilities, and as much as possibly Tean, aidins and assist.
  26. ins the Truth and Paradoxicalness thereof. Moreover Proctus upon che
  27. Timaeus tales notice ot no other Philolophers, thac ever impuced chis
  28. Doctrine to Plato, or indeed maintained any such Opinion, ot Tivo
  29. Substancial Principles oF600d and Fvil, buc ouly Plutareh and AITCUS S
  30. (ChoughI contels Chalcidins cites Numenius alto co thelame purpolc)
  31. Proclus his mords are these: oi pesd i HNSTaeZOV Y XECCVEU A 71
  32. noI reoCivo paoi Tir ane C pntor INW neO ~ qVEoECOS, negcirat 3 i TuV
  33. nancerlT LoxiV TiV ZSTO naSoTV, nb der jd n nimors nv, n a no 10215; ci.
  34. arantos i nimors, aend a ran Jugis. PluLarehus Cheronen(IS and ACi-
  35. cus maintain, that before the Generation and Formation of theWorid
  36. there mas Onformed and disorderty Malter existins (Erom Pcerniey)
  37. tosether with a Malesicent Soul; for whence, say they, could that Moti-
  38. on of the Matrer, in Platos Fimaeus, procede, but srom a Soul: andif it
  39. vere a Disorderly Motion, it must iben needs eome from a Disorderty Soul.
  40. And as Proctus cells us, chat chis Opinion oftheirs had been betore con-
  41. Fnted by Porphyrius and Tamblychus, as chac irtrich was boch Trracional
  42. andimpious, (0 doch he chere literise himselE briesty retel ic in chele
  43. Tiro Propositions; Pirst, thac naiou Luxn Sniu 631 78 DES, Lvery
  44. Soulis the Of sprine of Coc, and chere ean be no Soulnor any chine
  45. else, belides Cod SelF. exictins; and Secondly, rd naenor diccovior noien
  46. o aop i, rd a Dov aTOnOV, 3 Zd oubripaor 2 Dcico 20 à Deov, 8c Enior5 a
  47. Nmtor, 3 Sncos ailiomen vor. Et is absurd 10 mahe Fvil alike Eternal
  48. with 600d. for that whichis Codless cannot be of like honour with Cod.
  49. and equally Onmade, nor indeed ean there be any thine at all, positively op
  50. posite toCod.
  51. eo
  52. . 116

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 219. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0239?run=74