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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 752

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  1. Matter, not 10 al Pac. IImmade B00K I.
  2. Postales jornely concurrins. And as FOr Matter Or Body it SCIE;
  3. ic is certain alio, thac Plotinus, Corphyrius, Tamblichus, Hieroctes.
  4. Platonists, expresty denied it cor have been ageuuror, Onmade, Ox
  5. Proctus and ocher sels. Existent, and conceired it to have deri
  6. red its whole Beine trom ihe Deicy; Wrho accordinely is Ayled by
  7. Proclus, aeen airtae d inus, The Ineffable Cause of Matter. In like
  8. manner have we already Morred, chacaccordins coche Chalday Ora-
  9. cles, Matrer it selF Was also Cansed ox Produced by theDciey, to whictu
  10. purpose is chis Verse Ciced by Proctus, Erder ad DecONd WVEOS TONV
  11. nomNS SAnS. From whence (Fhat is, From the Deity) abundantly sprines
  12. forth the Generation of the Multisorm Matter. THC WECTeF Here re-
  13. quirins, thac it Bould beread actu, and not aedu, as ic is in Proclus
  14. his Copy. Moreorer Lamblichus hathrecorded in his AyCeries, thac
  15. Eermes, and che old Forptian TBeolocers likcerile, Beld matter nOE1O
  16. Be ageuror, chat is, sels. Existent. Onmade, or Vnderived trom thc
  17. Deity, but eo have been Cansed by ic. Whence does Proclus con-
  18. Thus Hiero clude it probable, chaE Plato as OF che lame Pertvation al(o; 25
  19. eles in Pbo
  20. likevise orphens betore had been, he deriving this as is supposed
  21. rezor Deor with ochex things From the FByptians. Ttis erue indecd, chac many
  22. ius: du
  23. regioisnon oF chele Philolophers, asterted Matrer, Souls, and the Whole Worid,
  24. iMINaeraV tohare been Eternal wichont Bepinnine, and Consequentiy not Cre-
  25. nolons eu atCd, EE sn oiscor, in chat pricter Sense, that is, out ot an Antecedene
  26. DaVSS. TE H Non. Existence in time. Norwichstandins whick, cher did suppole
  27. aourssca chemcohare receiredcheir Whole Beins From che Deity, and co tave
  28. Depended on it, every jor esmuch, as it havins once Nocbeen, they
  29. reginone had atcermard been Made by it. And chat erhich sires toany Sub.
  30. HOO pnOECdE
  31. esc undtevo
  32. Ers Zy Aance its Whole Beine choughtrom lternity, (0 chat IE never was Not3
  33. onptrns ec. the same upon Suppolition, thac it once had not been, could unque-
  34. elato censuit Bionably have Produced iE, Es su dilcor, Ont of Nothine, Or an ante-
  35. Munaum a cedent Non. Fxistence.
  36. We pare non sufticienely disproved The FruthOE chat ACTerrion
  37. Thac Nothine conld be Made ont of Norhine, in the Acheistick senle
  38. chereOT; viz. That Nothine which besore mas Not, conld aftermards
  39. possibly be Made to Be: Thouoh chis hould nocbe Fxtended (0 Far.
  40. a5 C0 Accidental Thines, and Modifications, but restraived and contined,
  41. Ouly 0 substantials: That no substance whatsoever, contd have a Nem
  42. nes of Beine, or be Caused by any other substance; but whatloever Sub-
  43. stantiat Thine any whereTs in che Worid, the lame did F. XistOF IE SCIE
  44. trom eternier, and Independenely uxon any chins elle; nochine but
  45. different Modifications beins Made ox Produced. Which (amC ANCE-
  46. tion, has been also sometimes, ochermile thus expressed; Nothine can
  47. be Made but ont of Pre. Existine substance; che meanins hercof beins
  48. ehis, ThacNothine canbe Made, buc Nem Accidental Modifications, O
  49. irtrat betore substantially Was; no substance it selE beins Make
  50. able ox Producible by any ocher substance, neicher in Time ((0 a810
  51. hrave a Neness or Besinnine oF Beins) nor ret trom Eternity. Where
  52. che Acheists and some ortiers takeins it FOr BTanECd, That there is ne
  53. Ochex substance Belides Body, Or Matter, do Furcher limit and reltrain
  54. the Sen(C OE chat Propolition in this manner: Nothine can be Made
  55. but ont os ere emistine Malter; chac 1d, Wosbine can be Made, buc oud
  56. Deo ex nul-
  57. la prius ex-
  58. istente Mate.
  59. ria produ
  60. dum, 3c.
  61. 1A1
  62. enon
  63. Mod
  64. 10t

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 752. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0772?run=74