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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 531

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  1. CHAP. IV
  2. Poetical and Phancastical.
  3. non but the Frue Prety lefr; he who is morstripped by us Christians, beine
  4. the onty True Cod, the Lord of Nature, and ihe Maker os all substances.
  5. erom ntience me may observe, chat accordins to Athanastus, etie Pa
  6. san Poetick Cods, vere no Real Thines in Nature, and cheretore chey
  7. couldbeno octer, chan che Several Nosions and Povers of the One
  8. Supreme Cod Deisied, Or severat Names of Bim. 50 chat athanastus his.
  9. eoetick Cods, Or oi codd rourrais pvdobouquoi Deoi, Cods fabulousty de
  10. vised bythe Poers, vere chieAy thole Two RindsoF Pagan GOdS, FirsF
  11. ventioned by us; chat is, Che Varions Considerations OF the OnC SU-
  12. Preme Numen, acccordins co its general Norion, expresed by Co many
  13. Proper Names: and Sccondly his Particular Povers diffuse d thorouxh
  14. ihe Worid, Severally personated and Deisied. Which considered,
  15. as lomany distinet Deicies, are nochins buc meere Fiction and Phan-
  16. Wirhout any Reality. And ehis do che Pasans themselves in A-
  17. pbanasius, aetenomedse, joces qd cis auroi Duor, ny rae ovoala HEA NaSHI, P. Id
  18. , su Ea pssie oncos 265, 3dE Keg, 3dE Heg, sdE AeuS. nnec HOVTa
  19. IOTEC) Cos Srraes oi nCUTaI reoS a nar anSoVTCOV, They say, that tBe
  20. hames of ihose Cods are meerly Fictitions, and that tbere does no mhere
  21. Really Exist any such supiter, orSaturri, or Juno, or Marsibut thatthe Poets
  22. have feiened ihem. 10 be so many persons Existine, tothe deception ol
  23. heir auditors. Nocwichstanding irtich, chac Zhird Sort oF Pagan Oods
  24. Momentioned by us, Which mere tnanimate substances and thC Na-
  25. curesos Thines Deisced, max well be accourted Poericat cods lilee-
  26. lle; because chouxh chose chines chemsetres be Real and noi
  27. vet is their personation and Deisication meer Fiction
  28. peiened
  29. ud Phaney: and homever che tirst occalionchereot spruns, trom chis
  30. heolosicat Opinion ox Pertiration, That Cod who is In Al Thines.
  31. ind is ihe canse os al Thines, ought to be morshipped In Al Thines.
  32. peciallus be beins him (elE Envisible; yet chie makcins oE chole chinso
  33. emselres cheretore to be l0 many Persons and Cods, was vortiine
  34. uc Poetick Fiction and Phantastry, accordinsly a5 their old Mytholos
  35. and allegorical Fables oE the Cods, run much uxon chisstrain.
  36. LXIV. Hicherto hiare we declared ite Sence oF the Pagans in
  37. beneral, ihose altobeins included, who suppoled Ood to bc à Beine
  38. Plevared above the Worid, Thac cher axrecd in chele Zuo Thines. Firse
  39. de Breakins and Crumblins asit vere, oC the simple Deity, and Par-
  40. elline OuF OE che Tame into Many Parricular Nocions aud Partias
  41. Oulderations, accordins co che Various Manilectations, oEits Pomer
  42. bd Providence in che worid; by che Perlonatins and Deityins OF
  43. es deverally, chey madeas it vere, 10 Many Bods ot one. The
  44. et Cround mhereot mas chis, because chey considered not che
  45. ry accordins coirs simple Nature, and abstract ly only; but Con-
  46. retelus also wich che WVorid, as he Displayerh himsele cherein, Perva-
  47. arid Dissuseth his Vertues choroush aII. For astheSun re.
  48. deth2
  49. ecedbys Croler Vapours, is sometimes Mulciplicd, and rhe (amC
  50. object beheld chroush a Polyedrons Class, by realon oE chole many
  51. superticies, beins reprelented in several places at once, is cherebi
  52. endred Mavitold to ihe Spectator; 50Onc and che Pame Supreme
  53. od, considered Concretety wich che Worid as Manifestine his severat
  54. omers and vertues in it, was mulciplied into Sereral Names, not wich.
  55. ou

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 531. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0551?run=74