Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: through the ninulitude of tbe causes preexisting in bim, but extends- and' expands all tilings to Uie demiurgic union. It converts, however, the partible genera of the Gods to impartible intellectual sameness. But it assimilates the proceeding orders to the intelligible paradigms, acid gives completion to the. one scries of all beings; Very properly, therefore, do those who are wise in divine concerns assert, that the last triad of Intel- ligibles is the cause of the fontal and ruling Gods and that the whole scries of rulers subsists about the intellectual father. For the genus of assimilating natures pertains to the perfect paradigm, just as the genus of things assimilated pertains to the extremity of the intellectual order. For all tilings are assimilated to the first paradigm, and the conversion of all' secondary natures to it is through similitude. And with the demiurgus of wholes, the cause of intellectual sameness and difference is united, being pnrtibly unfolded into light through the power of similitude and dissimilitude, and producing the one and whole form of that fabrication in all1 beings through divided energies, and the separations of essence. Through these things, therefore, we have reminded the reader, that the first and most total of the partible divine genera, and which is united to the intellectual orders, is allotted the assimilative peculiarity, and being defined Recording to this, conjoins all things to the demiurgic monad; and we have also shown] how it proceeds from the intelligible paradigm to all nuinduno natures, and is the primary origin of their generation. CHAPTER IV. Again, it follows in addition to what lias been said, that we tihould' separate all the assimilative powers, properly arrange them, and survey them proceeding about the one esse...