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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 243

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  1. ADirine Pheozoime
  2. and anocher God, chat mas truly and properly soia, immutable P
  3. Wrho vas the Causc oF that Generate d Cod, the 2 niverse, and cheretore
  4. OF AIIchines. The orher PaCtage OFPlatoSis pas. AV. OFhis Timaens.
  5. End SV nailEs doDI ZE EDE, HON SOI BaVEpaS n, d001 Dalvorat na b 100 av EDERCO
  6. Deoi, eom Ego, Neyd nec5 avrs5 o rode rd nâv 380moa5, rade, 0cot deat
  7. cor e7co djuseres, nalue 2 287cov, à di Exs, oa. W hen therefore allo
  8. ihe Cods, boih those mhich move visibly abont the Hleavens, and those
  9. mhich appear to us asosten asthey please (chac is bochche Stars ee Demons)
  10. vere Generated or Created; that Cod mhich made this vhole Dniverse,
  11. bespahe these Generated Cods, aster this manner, re Gods. 0f Bod5 (Whom
  12. Emy sels am ihe Maker and Father of) altend. Where ihe rords Deoi
  13. Dear, notmichtandins Proclus his ocher differins conjectures, Pcem 10
  14. have been very vell rendred By Cicero, Dii qui Deorum Satu orti estis.
  15. re Cods Which are the Proseny or Os. sprins of ihe Cods. And che6015
  16. Whole OH. sprinsn chese Generated Gods (che Animated stars and De-
  17. mons) are Paid to be, must necds be thole aidtot Deoi, those Fternal Cods.
  18. elserhere mentioned in che Came Timans, 25 Where che Philo(opher
  19. CalIS che Woric, Es aisticor DE dV zeyoVds aa a Generated or Crea-
  20. ted imace of ihe Eternal Gods; 25 Cicero alto is to be understood ot
  21. chele, When he speales oF the W orids beins Madeby TheCods, and by
  22. checonnsel of The Gods. Nom chele Eiternal Gods oFPlato, Called by his
  23. Follorvers Deoi vaneoor, he Supramundane Cods, choushr accordins 10
  24. chac Aricter Nocionol themord zcas, asic isused boch in Plato and
  25. Aristotle, Cor a Temporary Production of thines és su dircoi, they vere in-
  26. decd all arémisos, becaule cher never mere not, and had no beginnins
  27. OFcheir Existence: Vet nocmichstandins vere they noc cheretore sup.
  28. Poled by chatPhilolopher, 10 bc aII avreroros and av dumlsaros (0 many
  29. Sels. oricinated and s’els subsistent Beines, Or First Principles, bue ouly
  30. One oE chem such; and cherest derived Erom chacOne: it beins very
  31. true, a5 we conccive, wtrac Proctus altirms, dn o nNeror 67 ular aexuv ave In Zima. P. 116
  32. 2d raevrae, That Plato reduces al Thines to One Principle, evenMaIerit
  33. TeIF; bec unguestionable phat he derivech aII his Oods Fromone. Where-
  34. Fore alI chole Eternal Gods oE Plato (One only excepted) chouch chey
  35. WeTCNOE QVTOI Or Generated in one PencC, THat IS X3 XCCVOV, 25 10 2
  36. Temporarr bexinning, yet vere cher nocrichstandins as Proclus di-
  37. Pinonistech. Voilos an’airias Generated in anocher sence, asproduced
  38. from a Superiour cause, chere beins orly One lueh ayseile One Inge-
  39. nerate or 2nproduced Deity. Thusaccordins 10 Plato, there vere Two
  40. TOrrs OF Secundary Ox Inferiour and Derivative Cods, Pirethe. Deoi etubo juoi
  41. Or Mundane Cods, Cuch ashad alloE them a Temporary Generation wich
  42. the World, and oE ihom Platos Theogonia and 3Vveod5 DEaV IS PFOper-
  43. Iy to beunderstood; And Secondly the iapnboiuo and aidtoi Deoi, ihC
  44. Supramundane and Eternal Cods, wtrich vere II oF them AI(O, (aVC
  45. ouly One, produced trom chac One, and dependent on ic as cheir
  46. Cause. But OE chele Inseriour Eternal Cods, oF che Platonists and
  47. Prrhasoreans, e are 10speak again altermards. In che mean time
  48. it is evident, thac in chac Paltase of Platos betore cited, chere is
  49. Plain mention made, boch OFDEOIseo eroites, OE Dii Orti, Gods mho
  50. vere made or Generated rich the Worid, and oF o rbdC rd neer onioE.
  51. of One Ood who mas the maker of them, and oE the WVhole Universe.
  52. iho cheretore is timlels every may ayeulos Dnmade or Dnproduced.
  53. And
  54. CHAB. IV.

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 243. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0263?run=74