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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 551

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  1. CHAB. IV. The Norld; 10some lhe Lmu OIl. SF
  2. And indecd when the PaganS chus spatce OF a First, second and
  3. Third Ood, and nomore, though havine innumerable other Codsbc.
  4. lides, they did by ehis Languase plainly imply, chac che( Three Cods
  5. t cheirs, vere oF a very difterent kind, trom all the rest oF cheir
  6. Bods; thatis, HOC Deoi reiloi DUE aidtoi, nOL Created, BuF Pternal aud
  7. Oncreated ones. Aud thac many oF them did really take this Whole
  8. trinitus of Cods, Corthe rd ocior in general, ehe Divine Numen, and
  9. Amerimes callit che First God t00, in may oE dictinction trom cheir
  10. Generated Cods; Will bc Moed attermard. S0 chacthe HeCT OEds
  11. c rirst Cod, Was used in disterent sences by chese Pagans, Cometimes
  12. alarxer sence, and in may oF oppolition to all chc vemiloi ocoi the
  13. Generated or Creaced Cods, or the Cods chat mere made in Fime to.
  14. Secher mich the W orid; and sometime agaiu, more Parciculariy, in
  15. tray ot dittinetion From thole Tuo other Divine Fypostases Eternal
  16. Calledby chem the second and Third Cod. Wrhich Firs OEche Three
  17. bods, is also Frequenetr by ehiem called ocds, God, Emphatically aud by
  18. Hay oC Excellenes, thes suxpotins a Oradual Subordination in chele
  19. principles.
  20. Deicher mas chis Trinity OE Divine subsistences onls chus ill. lau.
  21. d dby chePaxans generally, whenchey calledit a Frinity of Cods;
  22. allo rhe cabala thercot, was ochermise much Depraved and AduI.
  23. Maed by severaloF che Platonilts and PythaβOreanS. POP FrC, chc
  24. ird ol hese Three Hypostases commonly called Psyche, is by lome
  25. uthem made cobe uu in erusopuos ihe immediate soul of the Corporeal
  26. oria. intormins, aetins, and enlivenins it, alter che lame mauver
  27. che douls oE other Animals do cheir respective Bodies; intomuch
  28. hac chis Corporeat Worid ic set(, as rogettier wich its soul ic mateo
  29. s one complere Animal, was trequemly called che Thira Bod.
  30. S eroctus altirmeth OF Numenius the PxthacOrean, o gd noouos naX
  31. oreers 62I Ocds That ihe Worid accordine 10him, was the Zhird
  32. Cod.
  33. Hnd Plotinus, Beinx a xrCat Readter OF etis Numenius, SCCmS 10
  34. advebeen somemhac infected by tiim wich chis conceicallo, chouxti
  35. ourars co his omn Principles; trom chole morde betored ciced oue
  36. ahim, ousonos Oeds, cis at orundes Nercu, Febroc, the Woridus as is com-
  37. montus said, is the Third Cod.
  38. Aon is ihe W orid BenOca Creature, itien is chere no createc Be-
  39. s ac all, bucall is Cod. BuEnOL Ouly Timaeus LoeruS, buc allo Plato
  40. matelt, calis ic, deior gemuroo chat is, a Created Cod, che ord remurdi
  41. here pur For thac, which altex it once mas not, is brouxtt into
  42. elB; ihich is FHC PTOPer Norion OF a Creature. S0 chacthie anima-
  43. d Noridis by Plato made tabe onty che chiet OE all che remuloi deoi
  44. Mac 1, ihe Creature Cods. Wheretore ic is plain chac in ehis Fri.
  45. s oE Conic Platonilts and Pythasoreans, wherein che Woridis
  46. de 1O bC Mhe Third Cod, there is a contused sumble oE crea
  47. ed, and 2 nereated Beines tosether. For che rirs oE chole C0ds i5
  48. me Facter and Founrain oF all, or chc Original oF che Codheado
  49. nd ihe Second, torasmuch as he is called by chem, boch nourris arid
  50. oeros the Maker, ane ihe Opisicer of ehe whole Worid, he ctiere-
  51. Forc

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 551. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0571?run=74