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15. Of Time, Augmentation, and
Diminution.
16 • And of Generation qualities.
\ 1 7. Therefore Eternity is in God.
.. 18. The World in Eternity.
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I 20. And Generation in Time.
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24. Generation is done in Time.
25. Therefore the Spring and Fountain of all things, is God.
26. The Subftance Eternity.
27. The Matter is the World.
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God. 'Even th^too, and the. jfair,
and Blefifednefs, ahd every Vert ue, and Eternity. 1
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ZS- And ;th£ Soul of Eternity , is God - and the Soul of the World, E* ternity ; and of the Earth, Heaven.
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in Identity or Selfnefs, but below up¬ on Earth he changeth Generation.
1 41- Eternity comprehendeth the World, either by Necelfity, or Pro- c|i vidence, or Nature.
42. And if any man fhall think any other thing , it is God that a&uateth,
J or opexateth this All.
43. But the operation or Act of # God, is Power infuperable, to which
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none of thefe things below , or the I things above , in any wife like unto God 5 for if thou doft , thou erreft j from the Truth. I
45. For nothing can be like the un- j like, and onely, and One $ nor mayeft thou think, that he hath given of his Power to any other thing.
4 6. For who after him can make anything, either of Life, orlmmor-
- tality 5 of Change, or of Quality ? and himfelf, what other thing fliould he make
47. For God is not idle , for then j
all things would be idle •, for all things 1, are full of God. j
48^ But there is not any wherein | the World, fuch a thing as Idlenefs ; | forldlenefs is a name that itnplieth a I thing voyd or empty, both of a Doer, 1 and a thing done. I
49. But all things muft neceflarity 1
be made or done both always, and ac- I
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51. For being ana&ive or opera¬ ting Power, and fufficient of himfclf for the things that are made , and the things that are made, are under him.
52. Look upon, through me, the World is fubjed to thy fight, and underftand exadly the Beauty there¬ of.
53. A Body immarcefcible , then the which, there is nothing more an Cient, yet always vigorous and young.
54. See alfo the feven Worlds fet over us , adorned with an everiafting Order, and filling Eternity , with a different c our fe.
5 5. For all things are full of Light, but the Fire is no where.
5 6. For the friendfliip, and coaif mixture of contraries and unlike, be* Came Light fiiining from the Ad or
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Operation of God, the Father of all Good, the Brigce of all Order, and the Ruler of the SeTO Worlds. .
57. Look alfo upon the Moon, the forerunner of them all,the Inftrumenc of Nature, and which changeththe Matter here below.
58. Behold the Earth, the middle of the whole , the 'firm and liable Foundation of the Fair World , the Feeder and Nurfe of Earthly things.
59. Confider moreover, how great
the multitude -Is of immortal living things, and of mortal ones alfo ; and fee the Moon going about in the midft of both, to wit, of things immortal and mortal. • >1
60 • But all things are full of Soul, and all things are propody moved by it 5 fome things about the Heaven, and fome things about the Earth, and neither of thofe on the right hand to the left *, nor thofe on the left hand to the right 5 nor thofe things that are ' y . . above,
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61. And that all thefe things are made, O beloved l^erme*, thou needft not learn of me.
62. For they aye Bodies, and have a Soul, a nd are moved .
63 . And that all thefe (hould come together into orie , it is impoflible without fome thing, to gather them together.
64. Therefore there muft be fome fuch ones, ^nd he altogether One.
6 5. For feeing that the motions are divers, and many, and the Bodies not alike , and yet one ordered fwiftnefs among them all : It is impoflible there ihould be two or moe Makers.
66. For one order is not kept by many.
67. But in the weaker, there would be jealoufie of the ftronger,and thence alfo Contentions.
68. And if there were one Maker of mutable and mortal living wights,
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he would defire alfo.to make immor¬ tal ones, as he chat were the Maker of immortal ones, would do to make mortal.
69. Moreover alfo, if there were , two , the Matter being one , who
jfhould be chief, or have the difpofing of the failure i '
70. Or if both of them, which of them the greater part?
71. But thinks thus that every li¬ ving Body hath its confiftance of Matter and Soul*, and of that which is immortal, and that which is mortal, and unreafonahle.
74. How then are mortal wights,
72. For all living Bodies have a Soul *, and thofe things that are not
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73. And the Soul likcwife ofi drawing neer her Maker, isthecaufe of Life, and Being , and Beingthe caufeof Life , is after a maner , the caufe of immortal things.
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wights that caufeth immortal things, ana immortality
5 6. That there is feme Body that doth thefe things, it is apparent,, and that he is alfo one, it is moft manifeft.
77. For there is one Soul, one Life, and one Matter.
78. Who is this i who can it be, other then the JDn e d5oo i
7 p. For whom elfe can it benefit,
to make living things, favconely God. «
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81. For it is a ridiculous thing to
confefs the World to be one , one Sun, one Moon, one Divinity; and yet to have I know not how many gods. 1 i |
82. He therefore being One, doth all things in many things.
83 . And what great thirig is it for God, to make Life,and Soul, and Im¬ mortality, and Change, when thy felf
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another that heareth , and another that fpeaketh, and anotherthat touch*
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87. For as thou , if thou fliouldft . ceaie from doing thefe things , wert not a living wight 5 fo if God flihuld, ; ceafe ffom thole, he were hot (which is not lawful , to fay ) any longer
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99 . For all things , if they were feparated from him, muft needs fall ancf die , as there being no life in
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- ioo. And again, if all things be living wights, both which are in Hea. ven> upon Earth and that there be one Life in all things whichis made fey ^4? *nd that is God, then cer* tainly all things are made, or done by God. . • - -
i o i . Life is the union of the Minde, and the Soul.
h death is not the deftrudii*
on of thofe things that were gathered
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i| nies, I affirm as thou hhrefeiBte the World is changed, becaufeeyery L day part thereof becomes ' t|. but that ic is never diffolved.
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tf 4. B.itUrtderfland well this 1 H y, more boldly,for it is more true :
a man cannot live without life, fo f if her can God live ^ not
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Jl lying in a place $ for Place is both a • Body, and immoveable , and thofc i things that are there placed, have no Ip motion.
[| n 8. For they lie otherwife in that which is unbodily, then in the fan-
, Jt-afk, or to appearance . j ii 9. Consider him that contains all
I things, and underftand, that nothing J is more capacious, then that which is I* incorporeal, nothing more fwift, no- ’ thing more powerful*, but it is moft capacious, moft fwift , and moft
Jftrong.
120. And judg of this by thy felf, ^command thy Soul to go imoHnuta,
II andfooner then thou canftbidit, it 11 will be there. 1
i -1 2 1. Bid it like wife pafs over the *1 S)ccan, and fuddenly it will be there f, Not as palling from place to place,but
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the turning of the Spheres, not the bodies of any of the other Stars, but tutting through ail, it will file up to the Jaftj and furtheft Body. >, , jj
123. And if thou wilt even break the whole, and fee thofe things that are without the World (if there be any thing without) thou may eft .
124. Behold how great power > how great fwiftnefs thou haft / Canft thou do all thefe things, and cannot God?
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1 2 6. If therefore thou wilt not e*
qual thy felf to God, thou canft not Underftarid God. .
12 7. For the like is intelligible by the like.
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-i in thy felf, the qualities of all the Iff Creatures, of the Fire, the Water, the Dry, and Moyft $ and conceive likewife, that thou carift at once b©
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|n the Body, and abufe it, and fayy { / underhand nothing, I can do nothing, I am afraid of the Sea , I cannot climb up into Heaven , I know not who I am , I cannot tell what I Jhall be ; what haft thou to do with God t for thou canft underftand none of thofe Fair and Good things • be a
lover of the Body, and Evil.
132. For it is thegreateft evil, not
to know God. *
133. But to be able to know, and to will, and to hope, is the ftraigl.. way, and Divine way, proper to the Good; and it will every where meet thee, and every where be fee n of
1 y and cafie, when thou doft not expedfc or look for it : It will meet thee, waking, fleeping, failing, travel* ing by night, by day, when thou
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mayeft|(ee him.
137. This is the Good of this is his Vertue, to appear, and to ' be feen mall things.
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2. What kindeof Ef* fence that is?, he alone knows himfelf exactly.
3- The Minde therefore is not cut off, or divided from the edentiality of
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4. And this Minde in men, is God, and therefore are fome m|n Divine, and there Humanity is neer Divinity.
5. For the good 2Demott called the
Gods immortal men, and men mortal Gods. . „
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j 7. For where there is a Soul, there is the Minde •, as where there is Life, t there is alfo a Soul. ?
' 8. In living Creatures therefore #
that are. without Keafon, the Soul is (jl Lite, voyd of the operations of the 7) Minde. jjllHfiB
I 9. For the Minde is the of the Souls of men, and worketh to . ! the proper Good .
j. 10. And in unreafonable things it fjco-operateth with the Nature of eve- i ry one of them, but in men it worketh
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12. For^jiief and Pleafure , flow like Juices from the compound Body, whereinto, when the Soul entereth, ordefeendeth , fhe is moyftened and tin&ed with them*
13. As many Souls therefore, as the Minde governed! or over* ruleth, to them it flic ws its own Light, re lift¬ ing their prepoiTcffions or prefumpti- J
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the Body , prepofTeffed of adifeafe, by burning or launcing it for healths fake. I
15. After the fame maner alfo, the Minde grieveth the Soul, by drawing it out of Pleafure, from w he nee every difeafe of the Soul proceeded!.
16. But the great Difcatc <>f the
Soul is becaufe'hhar. opn.iafl
folioweth to all Evil, and no Good- _
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to the Soul ^ as a Phyfitian health to the Bodyi 18. But as many Souls of men, aS || do not admit or entertain the Minde I for their Governor, do fulfer the fame thing that the Soul of unreafonabk living things.
I 19. For the Soul being aCc#e?crafc| with them, permits or leaves them to I their contupi fee nets, ^hereunto they
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r: 22 /tno inererore hath God fet
ji the Minde over thefe, as a Revenger y | • and Reprover of them.
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24. ^etm. All things, O Son, are
the work of Fate, and without it, can no bodily thing, either Good or Evil be done. fl
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he may fuffer that which he fuffereth, becaufe he did it.
27. But for theprefent let alone that fpeech , concerning Evil and Fate, for at other times we have fpoken of it.
2'B. Now our difeourfe is about die
Minde, and what it can do, and how it differs, and is in men fucha one>but in bruit Beafts changed.
29. And again, in bruit Beafts it is not beneficial, but in men by quench- r ing
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i S0- And of men thou mufl: under- V fome to be rational or govern¬ ed by reafon, and {bine irrational.
31. But all men are fub je^l to Fate, and to Generation, and Change • for
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33 . But rational men, over whom, fas we laid, /the Minde bears rule, do 'not fuller like unto other men 5 but being free from vicioufnefs,and being not evil, they do Fuffer evil.
34. Cat. How fayeft thou this a- gain Father i An Poulterer, is he not
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fo all others.
v 35- Butthe rational man, O
Son, will not fuifer for Adultery, but t he Adulterer, nor for Mm'ther ,but 2s the Murtherer.
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the Quality of Change, as of Gene¬ ration, but the Vicioufnefs , he that hath the Minde, niay efcape. _ 27. And therefore, O Son, I have Always heard the good Vernon fay, and if he had delivered it in Writings he had much profited all mankinde: for he atone, O Son, as the firft born, God, feeing all things , truly fpate Divine words. I have heard him fay fomerimes, ail things arc onrfmng> tTpctiiUp' IrtfcUigtMe Wmm Natali'
e(pec'2il'’ intfUigfijie denies arc cute- ' 1 3S. We live in Power, in Adi, and
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39. Therefore a ’good Minde , i|
that which the Soul of him is.
• 40. And if this be fo, then no intel¬ ligible thing differs fromi
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41 . As therefofe.it is poflible, that
thcMiiide, the Prince of all things $ fo likewife, that the Soul that is orj God, can do what foe ver it will-
42. But underftand thou well; wr
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this Difcourfc I have made to the Queftion which thou askeft of me be¬ fore, I mean concerning Fate and the [inde. v ,
eg. Fifft, if, 0 Son, thou ilialt dili¬ gently withdraw thy felf from all Contentious fpeeches,thou fhalt finde it|that iri T ruth, the Minde, the Soul of -Cod bears rule over all things, both Jlpver Fate, and Law, and all other
J 44. And nothing is iinpoflible to ghirn, no not of the things that are of -Fate.
45. Therefore, though the Soul of nan be above it, let it not negle hings that happen to be under “fate?
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^ 47. SCaf. Mofl divinely fpoken, O leather, and truly and profitably, yef :lear this one thing unto me.
48. Thou fayeft,that in bruit Beads
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ons.
4^. Now the impetuous inclinati. ons of bruit Bcafts, as I conceive, are Paflions. If therefore the Minde do, co-operate with thefe impetuous In¬ clinations, and that they are the Paf- {ions in bruit Beafts , certainly the Minde is alfo a Paflion, conforming it felf to Paflions, t vM
50 ^erm, Well done Son, thou askeft nobly, and yet it is juft that I iliould anfwer thee.
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is a iJody • and it is moved into the Jodies by the Minde .* Now Motion is Paflion, and there they both fuller ;
which moveth , as that
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But Paflion differs from that1 is tfaffible 5 for that
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57* But incorporeal things ddal- i or'Work,
5 8. Let ndt therefore thd a ons or names trouble thee , f|and Paflion are the fame thing, but* 11 that it is notgtievbus to ufe the mo9e ’
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£2. Yea rather going out of the Body, he fhall be guided and led by them, both into the Quiet and Society of the Gods, and blefled Ones.
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64. No* Son> but onely Voyce 5 now Speech and Voyce do differ exceeding much ; for Speech is common co all men > buc Voyce is proper unto every kinde of living thln§‘
65. Xat Yea, but the Speech of men is different, O Father 5 every man according to his Nation.
It is true, O Son,theydo differ : Yet as man is one,fois Speech one alfo ; and it is interpreted and ' v ' found
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6jr But thou feemeft unto me, Son, to be ignorant of the Vercue.or Pow-
ter.
68. For the bl'efled God, the good Vernon faid or commanded the Soul to be in the Body, the Minde, -in the
ifc Soul, {ao^pv) the Word, or Speech, or a Reafon in the Minde, and the Minde Jn God, and that God is the Father of them all.
69. Therefore the Word is the . Image of the Minde, and the Minde
( of God , and the Body of the J 2nd the J&ea of the SouL
f 7°- Therefore of the Matter , the fubtileft or fmalleft part is Air, of the Air the Soul, of the Soul the Minde,> of the Minde God.
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75. For the Bodies that are put to¬ gether, and that have, and make their changes into other, having this Iden¬ tity, do always faveandprefervethc uncorru^io^ of the Identity.
76. But in eyery one of the com¬ pound Bodies, there is a number.
77. For without t^umberit is on-., poffible there fliould be confidence or conftitution, or compofition . or
iution: ,J"h ■
78. rBut Unities do
’Vreafe ISuflibcrs, and again being diflblvcd, come into themfelves.
79- And the Matter is One.
8p. But this whole World , the |rcat God, and the Image of the 1 Greater,
I ^Greater , and united unto him , and conferving the Order, and Will of the j§ Father, is the fulnefs of Iafe* HflH 8 i . And there is nothing therein * through all the Eternity ofthe Revo |i lutions , neither of the whole , nor jjjfoF the parts which doth not live. ju'v 82. For there is nothing dead, that cither hath been, or is, or ihall be in the World.
83 . For the Father would have it a$ long as it lafts,to be a living thing*,ana therefore it muft needs be God alfb.
84. How therefore , O Son, can there be in God , in the Image of the Univerfe, in the fulnefs of Life, any [dead things
85. For dying is corruption, aftd corruption is deftru&ion.
L 86. How then can any part of the incorruptible be corrupted, or
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89* Bor they do not die, O Son, but as compound Bodies they are dif- folyed.
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they are diColved, not that they may be deftroyed, but that they may be
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92. |9erm. And what is there in the
World unmoveable ? Nothing at all, O Son. & ’
93. .Why, doth not the Earth :em unmoveable to thee, O Father i
94/ No, but fubjedtto many
motions, though after a maner, it a- lone be liable'.
95 • What a ridiculous thing it Were , that the N urfe of all things mould be unmoveable, which beaieih and bringeth forth all things 'i $6. For it is impoffible , that any , ; thing
me? urns.
itf thing that bringeth forth, fliould bring | forth without Motion.
97. And a ridiculous queftion it is. Whether the fourth part of the whole, be idle: For the word immoveable,
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100. For while the whole World is together, it is unchangeable,© Son, but all the parts thereof are change¬ able.
10 1. vYet nothing is corrupted or deftroyed, and quite aboliflied , but
. the names trouble men. ",
I 102. For Generation is not Life, but Senfe 5 neither is Change Death, I hut Forgetfulnefs, or rather Occuka- tion, and lying hid. v
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10 2. generation is not a £ reafton at &tfe, baf a pjotirttion of things f 0 anb malting them mantfefi. ^eitbet is Change 2>ea tf?, but an ccmlf afton oj fjiafng af that tofyief) toas.
io$. Thefe things being fo, all things are Immortal, Matter, Life, Spirit, Soul, Minde , whereof every j living th ing confifteth . ]
f Io4* Ev£ry living thing therefore, is Immortal, becaufe of the Minde, but especially Man , who both re-
ceiveth God , and converfeth with him. I
t o5* Eor with this living wight a* lone is God familiar^ in the night by
dreams , in the day by Symbols or ' Signes. • I
10(5. And by all things doth he i foretel him of tilings to come, by a Birds, by Fowls, by the Spirit, or 1 Wmd, and by an Oke.
107.' Wherefore alfo Man profefs- €th to know things that have been, j v x things
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things that are puefent, and things to
come.
? 108. Gonfider this alfo , Q Son, That every other living Creature go- eth upon one part of cheWorld,Swim- ing things in the Water, Land wights upon the Earth , Flying Fowls in the tilAir.
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;|yen by his Senfe.
y no. But God is both about all things, and through all things ; lor he is both A£t and Power.
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to underhand God,
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look upon the Neceffity of things that, (appear, and the Providence o'* that have been, and are done.
ti3v See the Matter being moft [full of Life, and fo great a God moved with all Good, and Fair, both Gods, and %>m om, and Men.
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wholly Ads or Operations, O Son, by whom are they aded or operated but by God? *
, 116 ■ Or ait thou ignorant, that as the parts of the World, are Heaven, and Earth, and Water, and Air|j after the fame maner the Members of God, are Life, and Immortality, and Eternity, and Spirit, and Neceflity, j and Providence , and Nature , and Soul , and Minde, and the Continu¬ ance or Perfeveranee of all thefe which is called Good. I
117. And there is not any thing of j all that hath been , and all that is, j where God is not.
1 1 8. Cat. What, in the Matter, 0 Father {
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4; 121. But if it be aduatedpby wh6^f
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j-Ads, or Operations, are the parts of God;
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! 123. Whether thou fpeak of Mat¬ ter, or Body, or Ellen ce, know that %11 thefe are ads of God.
1 24. And that the Ad of Matter is 3 materiality , and of the Bodies cor- porality, and of Effence eflfentiality 5
f%nd this is God the whole.
125. And in the whole, there is no¬ thing that is not Godi j
| 12$. Wherefore about God, there is neither Greatnefs, Place, Quality ^ figure, or Time* for he is All, and
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4. ' For it is neither Fire, nor Water,* nor Air, nor Wind > but all thefe things are of him 5 for being Good, he hath dedicated that name unto himfelf alone.
5. But he would alfo adorn the Earth , but with the Ornament of a Divine Body.
6. And he fent Man an Immortal,
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7. And Man had more then all living Creatures , and the World $ bccaufe of his Speech, and Minde. 1
S. For Man became the fpe&ator of the Works of God , and wonder¬ ed, and acknowledged the Maker.
9. For he divided Speech among all men, but not Minde , and yet he envied not any * for Envy comes not thither, but is of abode here below in . the Souls of men, that have not the Minde. 1
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12 . scat. And where hath he fet it i !otll 13. &m. Filling a Bowl therewith, he lent it; down,
‘ giving alfo a Cryeror Proclaimer.
J 14. And he commanded him to pro-’ 'claim thefe things to the fouls of men* j 15; Dip and waih thy (elf, thou that' Jart able in this Cup or Bowl : Thou that beleeveft, that thou flialt return to him that lent this Cup *, thou that cknowledgeft whereunto thou were '"made. ’ '
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[ill 1 6. As many therefore as under¬ stood the Proclamation, and were, ^baptized or dowfed into the Minde,
• thefe were made partakers of Know* jjjcdgvand became perfect men, re-)3 giving theMinde, :
17. But as many as miffed of the ^Proclamation, they received Speech,
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id having their temper
m Anger ana Wrath, they do not ad¬ mire the things Worthy of looking on.
10. But wholly addi&ed to the pleafures and defires of the Bodies, they belecVe that man was made for them.
2©. Biit as many as partaked of the gift of God 5 thefe, O SCat, in com- parifon of their works, are rather im¬ mortal then mortal men. r l
21. Comprehending all things in * J r which are upon Earth,
which are in Heaven, and if there be any thing above Heaven .
22. And lifting up themfelvcs fo high, they fee the Good •, and feeing
j it, they account it a miferable calamity to make their abode here.
23* And defpifing all things bodily and unbodily , they make haft to the
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of the Minde, the beholding of Di¬ vine things 5 and the Underftanding of God, the Cup it felf being Divine.
25. 2Dat. And I, O Father, would be* * * * * * * • '•
body, O Son , thou canft not
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27. %at How incaneft thou that, O Father i
28. ^crm. Becaufe it is impoffible, '
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31; The choice of the better there¬ fore , is not ondy belt for him that chufeth it, by deifying a man ; butit alfo fhewech Piety and Religion to¬ wards God. m;, ? . ■>. I
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32. But the choice of the worfe dcftroyes a man, but doth nothing againft God 5 fave that as pomps or pageants , when they come abroad, cannot do any thing chemfelves but hinder * after the fame maner alfo do thefe make pcmps or pageants in the World, being feduced by the plea-
•/ furesof the Body. !
33. Thefe things being fo, OCsf, that things have been, and are fo plen-
them proceed alfo from us, without any fcarcity or fparing.
34- For God is innocent or guiltlefs, \ but we are thecaufesof Evil, prcier- ing them before the Good.
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36. For the Good is not to be tran- fcended, it is unbounded and infinite 5 unto it felf without beginning , but unto us, Teeming to have a beginning, even our knowledg of it.
37. For cur knowledg is not the beginning of it , but fhe ws us the be¬ ginning of its being known unto us.
38. Let us therefore lay hold of the beginning , and we fhall quickly go through all things.
39. It is indeed a difficult thing, to leave thofe things that are accuftom«* able, and prefent, and turn us to thofe things that are ancient, and according to the original.
40. For thefe things that appear,de- light us, but wake the things that ap¬ pear not, hard to bcleeve, cj t§e things
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41 . T he things raoft apparent are Evil, but the Good is fecret, or hid in, or to the things that appear ? for it hath neither Form nor Figure.
42. For this caufe it is like to it felf,
but unlike every thing el fe 5 for it is impoflible, that any thing incorporeal, Ihould be made known, or appear to a Body. / ’ i
43. For this is the difference be¬ tween the like and the unlike - and the unlike wanteth always fomewhat of the like.
44. For the Unity, Beginning, and
ings, as being the Root and Beginning. 1 - . il
45. Nothing is without a begin-
ing, but the Beginning is of nothing, but of it felf ; for it is the Beginning of all other things. \
46. Therefore it is, feeing it is not
From another beginning.
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48. Every thing that is begotten for made; is imperfed, and maybe divided, increafed, diminiKhed,
49. But to the perfed, there hap-.
peneth none of thefe.
50. And that which is increafed, is increafed by Unity, but is confumed and vaniflied through weaknefs,being not able to receive the Unity.
51. This Image of God, have! deferibed to thee, O %(&, as well as I could ^ which if thou do diligendy confider, and view by the eyes oh thy minde, and heart , beleeve me, Spns thou {halt finde the way to the things above, or rather the Im lead thee,
52. But the fpedlacle or this peculiar and propehj . can fee, and behold it , it and draws unto it, as;
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4. Fqr in other living Creatures, ?nfe is uniied unto Nature, but in men to UnderBanding.
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I demanding , as much as God from *i4 Divinity, s _ /: ; !
'I I , ^ J or Divinity ls ( v'™) from or un- JlUer God, and UnderBanding from. ■Khe Minde , being the lifter of the Word or Speech, and they the Inftru-
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within another.
Jjff 9\ For neither is it poflible without ,;i Senfe to UnderBand, nor can vye have
Scrjfe vyithout UnderBanding.
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1 1 . But it Teems unto me, that both the operations are in the Vifions of Dreams, and that the Senfe is ftirred up out of fleep, unto awaking.f
12. For man is divided into a Body
and a Soul* when both parts of the Senfe accord one with another, then is the Underftanding childed , or brought forth by the Minde pro¬ nounced. i
13 . For the Minde brings forth all Intel le Good ones, when it rcceiveth good Seed from God ^ and the contrary, when it receives them from Devils. ■
14. For there is no part of the World voyd of the Devil, which en¬ tering in privately, fowed the feed of his own proper operation 5 and the Minde did; make pregnant , or did bring forth that which was fovvn,
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rents, g>acdle&ge0, imptetrcs, Strang* lit’ lings, throwing down headlong, and all other things which are the works of evil SDemons.
1 1 5. And the Seeds of God are few ;lc« but Great, and Fair, and Good, Ver- Itue, and Temperance, and Piety.
ti! 1 6. And the Piety is the Knowledg of God , whom whofbeverknoweth
jjbeing full of all good things , hath iiljDivine U-nderftanding , and not like
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20. But the godly or God-worfliip- ing Man laying hold on Knowledg, will defpife or tread under all thefe things ; for though they be evil to other men, yet to him all things are good.
21. And upon mature confiderati- on , he refers all things to Knowledge and that which is moft to be wondred at, he alone makes evil things good.
22. But I return again to my Dif- courfeof Senfe.
23. It is therefore a thing proper to Man , to communicate and conjoyn Senfe and Underflanding. ^
24. But every man, as I faid before, doth not enjoy U.nderftanding 5 for one man is material , another eflen* tial.
25. And he that is material with wickednefs, as I (aid, received from the Devils the Seed of Underftand* ing *, but they that are with the Good eflentially, are faved with God. '■
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good, are intheufeof Operation un¬ lawful. • c
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I 30. And the World, Sfrieptus, hath fa peculiar Senfe and Underftanding, (not like to Mans, nor fo various or manifold , but a better and more fiimple.
3 1 . For the Senfe and Undemand¬ ing of the World is One, in that it makes all things , and unmakes them again into it felf- for it is the Organ for Inftrumentof the Will of God.
I 32. And it is fo organized or fram¬ ed, and made for an Inftrument by [God ; that receiving all Seeds into it I fHf from God , and keeping them in
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33. And therefore like a good Hus¬ band- man of Life, when things are diflolved or loofened , he affords by the catting of Seed, renovation to all things that grow.
34. There is nothing that it (the World J doth not beget or bring forth alive j and by its Motion, it makes all things alive.
34. And |t Is at once,both the Place and the Workman of Life.
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37* They that are compounded,aie the heavier, and they that are lefs, are the higher. ( p ty
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l 39‘ Therefore, God is the Father ' of the World, but the World is the il Father of things in the World.
I 40;» And the World is the Son of i God, but things in the World are the 'Sons of the World.
,41. And therefore it is, well called
the World, that is an Orna- jment, becaufe it adorneth and beauti- fifth all things with the variety of I Generation, and indeficiency of Life, .which the unweariednefs of Operati- ’on , and the fwifenefs of NecefTity,
‘ with the mingling of Elements, and’ jpe order of things done,
I 42. Therefore it is neceflarily, and 'properly called the World.
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44. And the World receiving it 6nce from God affoon as it was made,
hath it ft ill, to&at mtit on e jjao.
45. But God is not as it fee ms to fome who Blafpbeme through, fuper- ftition, without Senfe, and without Minde, or Underftandiog.
4 6. For all things that are, O Sfclt* plus, are in God, and made by him, and depend of him , fome working by Bodies, fome moving by a Soul¬ like Etfence,' fome quickning by a Spirit* and fome receiving the things that are weary, and all very fitly.
47. Or rather, I fay, that he hath
them not, but I declare the Truth 3 ijetsall tijings, not receiving them from without , blit exhibiting them out¬ wardly , :v. _ j
48. And this is the Senfe and Under- Handing of God, to move all things
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i I mean God 5 for the things that ate, God hath 5\ and neither is there anv thing without hjpt, nor he wichoiK ■any thing.
51. Thefe things, O afclspias, wilt appear to be true, if thou underftand them 5; but. ■' I
not, incredible;
m 52* For to underftand , is to be- eve; but not tobeleew, is not to nderftand : For my fpeech or words reach not unto the Truth , but the ;Minde is great , and being led or con¬ duced for a while by Speech, is able |o attain to the Truth.
“ Sp And underftanding ail things
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round about, and finding them con¬ sonant, and agreeable to thofe things
that were delivered, and interrupted i>y Speech, beleeveth 5 and in that |ood belief, reftefli.
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Book, &c.
54. To them therefore that under-
of God , they* * are credible 5 but to them that underftand jtj^m not, in credible.
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cures, partake not of Science, or Ait, becaufe they come fhort of Rea- ion.
2. 10erm, It muft needs be fo
Son*, . ff. '
3 . Cat 1 Why then, 0 Father, do we fee fome unreafonable living Crea¬ tures ufe both Science and Art ptfnttrcs trcafure up for themfelves food againft the Winter, and Fowls of the Air like wife make them Nefts,and four-footed Beafts know their own Dens.
4. Thefe things they do, O Son, not by Science Or Art, but by Nature 5
" fbr Science or Art ' are things that are ‘ taught, but none of thefe bruit Be * ate taught any of thefe things.
5. But thefe things being Natural I unto them, are wrought by /Nature,
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7. After the fame maner alfo,' if Fome pifmtres did fo , and fome not, u thou mighteft well fay, they gather their Food according to Science and
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% 8. But being they are all led by
• Nature , to the fame thing, even againft their wills, it is manifeft they do not do it by Science or Art.
9. For Operations, O S£af, being
i,i unbodily, are in Bodies, and work by iff Bodies. .
10. Wherefore, O SCaf, in as much
as they are unbodily, thou muft needs jjf fay they are immortal.
J 11. Butin as much as they can- not ad without Bodies, I fay, they ,( are always in a Body. ; (
12. For thofe things that arc to any thing , or for the caufc of any thing made fubjed to Providence t or Necdfity, cannot pollibly re- l! N 3 main
r
main idle bf their own proper Opera¬ tion.
i 3 . For that which is,fhall ever be * for both the Body, and the Life of it, is the fame. / '
14. And by this reafbn, it follows, that the Bodies alfo are always, be- caufe I affirm, T hat this corporiety is always by the Ad and Operation, or for them. M
■ij. For although earthly bodies be fubjed to diflolution ; yet thefe bodies inufl: l be the Places, and the Organs, and Inftraments of Ads or Opera- tions.
16. But Ads or Operations are im- ! mortal , and that which is immortal, is always in Ad, and therefore alfo Cojpojificafion if it be always. x*m
17. Ads or Operations do follow the Soul, yet come not fuddenly or
promifcuoufly^butfome of them come together with being made man, being about bruitiih or unreafonable things*
18. But the purer Operations do
- . • ■ v in-
1 infenfibly in the change of time, work -with the oblique part of the Soul.
J 19. And thefe Operation depend upon Bodies ; a#id truly they that are Codifying , come from the Divine I Bodies into Mortal ones.
| 20. But every one of them adeth
i both about the Body and the Soul, lit and are prefent with the Soul, even
without the Body.
i 21. And they are always A&$ or ftk Operations, but the Soul is not always (r in a Mortal Body , for it can be with- § out a Body, but Acts or Operations • cannot be without Bodies.
22. This is a facred fpeech, Son* ffioop cannot confitt toitficut a &oul.
23. SCat Howmeancft thou that. Father?
24. ^erm. llnderfta.nd it thus, O %Cat, When the Soul is fe
the Body, there r,
■Body.
( 25. And this fame B01
* to the time of its abode, is a&uatei
N 4 or
in
or
in
it is
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cannot fuffer without ad or operati *r,n" ‘ r ' ucritly there remaincth
the fame ad or
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confifts
tween an
tal one, that the immortal of one Mater, and fo doth not the mortal one 5 and the immortal one doth, but this fuffereth.
28; And every thing that adeth or operateth, is ftronger, and ruleth, but that which is aduated or opera¬ nd, is ruled.
2p. And that which ruleth, dired- cth, and governeth as free , but the other is ruled a fervant.
3°* Ads or Operations do not one- ly aduate dr operate, living or breath- my or infouled («*&/*.) Bodies, but alfo breathlefs Jodies or without Souls, Wood, and Stones, and fuch
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like cncreafing and bearing fruit, ripen¬ ing, corrupting, rotting, petrifying l and breaking, or Working fucri-like
things, and whatfoever inanimate * Bodies can fuffer. HHHH
31. Act or Operation, O Son, is called, whatfoever is, or is madeor done 5 and there are always many things made, or rather all things .
32. For thd: World is never wid¬ owed or forfaken of any of thofe things that are 5 but being ail way car¬ ried Or moved in it felf, it is in labor
if to bring forth thefhings that are , it which ihall never be left by it tocot- ok ruption.
i 33. Let therefore every ad or ope- i| ration be underftood to be always im- | mortal, in what maner of Body loever ’ it be.
I 34. But fome' Ads dr Operations l be of Divine , 1 fome of corruptible 1 Bodies, fome.univerfal, fome pecu- I liar, and fome of the generals, and ] fome of the parts of everything.
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: 35. Divine Ads or Operations therefore there be, and fuch as work or operate upon their proper Bodies, and thefcalfo areperfed, and being upon or in pcrfed Bodies.
36. Particular, are they which work by any of the living Creatures.
37. Proper, be they that work up¬ on any of the things that are.
38. By this Difcourfe therefore, 0 Son, it is gathered that all things are full of Ads or Operations.
3 9. P01* if neceflarily they be in / every Body , and that there be many Bodies in the World , I may very well affirm, that there be many other Ads or Operations. >■ 1
40. For many times in one Body, there is one, and a fecond,and a third, befides thefe univerfal ones thatfol-'
lOW. - ;
41. And univerfal Operations, I call them that are indeed bodily, and are done by the Senfes and Motions.
42. For without thefe it is impoffi-
ble
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:blc that the Body Ihould confift. I 43. But other Operations are pro¬ sper to the Souls of Men, by Arts, Sciences, Studies, and Adions. i 44. The Senfes alfo follow thefe Operations, or rather are the effects s or perfedions of them.
I 45. Underftand therefore, O Son, the difference of Operations, it is fenc “from above.
4 6. But Senfe being in the Body, and having its cffence from it , when it receivcth Ad or Operation, mani- : fefteth it, making it as it were corpo- ij real.
47. Therefore, I fay, that the afes are both corporeal and mortal,
having fo much exigence as the Body 5 are born with the Body, and . it; :
i 48. But mortal things themfelves have not Senfe, as not confifting of fuch an Effence.
4P. For Senfe can be no other then a corporeal apprehenfion, cither
of
th
I ‘ t ' r¥ ) ‘ ' s ,
of evil or good that comes to the Body. '
5*0. But to Eternal Bodies there is nothing comes , nothing departs 5 therefore there is no Strife in them.
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5*. %nt. Doth the Senfe there¬ fore perceive or apprehend in every Body*?
52. f^erm. In every Body, 0 Son.
53. Cat. And do the Ads or 0- perations work in all things *?
54. l^erm. Even in things inani¬ mate, O Son, but there are differences of Senfes.
55. For the Senfes of things rati¬
onal, are with Reafon ; of things un- reafonable, Corporeal onely ; but the Senfes of things inanimate, are paffive onely, according to Augmentation and Diminution. j
5 6. ButPaflion and Senfe depend both upon one head, or height, and
are gathered together into the fame, by Ads or Operations*
' 57. But
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a reafonable one fhould percciye or
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61. For that which affords the Senft to rejoyce with Pleafure , is ftraightway the cauft of many evils happening to him that fuffers it.
62. But Sorrow gives ftronger tor¬ ments and Anguifh, therefore doubt-
lefs are they both maleficial.
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2. But as far as it is poffible, and juft, I fay, That Truth is onely in the
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very Bodies
be
true,
is
it
felf oncly.
_ _ • the Earth
and nothing elfe 5 the Air is air it felf ■ ’and nothing elfe^ the Water, water it felf, and nothing elfe;
1 4. But our Bodies confift of all thefe^ for they have of the Fire, they have of the Earth, they have of the " Water, and Air, and yet there is nei¬ ther Fire, nor Earth, nor Water, nor* Air, fiOr any thing true;
5. And if at the beginning, our Conftitution had not T^uth , how could men either’ fee the Truth , oil it, or underhand it onely, ex^
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re upon Earth, O && are not Truth, but imitations T ruth : add yet not dll things
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like the Images of the fantafie or ap- ■pearance.
?t, 8. And when the fantafie hath an /influence from above, then it is an limitation of Truth , but without that- ‘ operation from above, it is left a
fye.
1 9- And as an Image (hews the
"•Body defcribed , and yet is not the iti-Body of that which is feen, as it feems f|to be ; and it is feen to have eyes, but it fees nothing, andears, but hears no- I ,
; thing at all ; and all other things hath /the pi&ure , but they are faife, decei- yingtheeyes of the beholder, whileft •hey think they fee the Truth, and yet "they are indeed but lies.
10. As many therefore as fee not ,nFahliood, fee the TruthaiBG||MiHH|
| ii. If therefore we _ _
fond , and fee every one of thefe things as it is, then we fee and under- land true things.
I 12. But if we "fee or underhand fPY thing befides, or otherwife, then I O that
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ftand , nor know the T ruth.
13. %a&. Is Truth therefore upon
Earths O Father i
Thou, doft not mifs the
mark, O Son. T ruth indeed is no where at all upon Earth, O for it cannot be generated, or made.
15. Blit concerning the Truth, it may be that fame men^to whom God
give
ng Power, may
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1 6. So that unjto the Minde and Reafon, there is nothing true indeed;
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17. But unto the true Minde and Reafon, all things are fantafies or ap¬ pearances, and opinions.
18. 2Cst. Muft we not therefore call it Truth, to underhand and Fpeak 1
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the things that are **
ip. I^crm. But there is nothing true upon Earth.
2Q. 2Eat. How then is this true,
That we do not know any thing true i
• how
mentus .
how can that be done here >
| 21. ^ctm, O Son, Truth is the
rnoft perkAt Vertuc , and the big heft tf Good it felf, not troubled by Matter, i not encompalfed by a Body, naked,
un-
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I 22. But the things that are here,
J O Son, are vifible, incapable of Good, Icnrruptible , paflible, diffolveable, changeable, continually altered, and Jmadeof another.
J 23. T he {things therefore, that are |no| true to th , be true t
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at is altered
® is a lie, n ot abiding in what it is 5 but
it fhews us always
, w,vA appearances^ .cs 25- SPaf. Is not man tri$,o0:Fa-
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abides according to it felf , fuch as it is.
27. But man confifts of many things, and doth not abide of him- felf; but is turned and changed, age after age , after I&ea, or form after form ; and this while he is yet in the Tabernacle.
28. And many have not known
their own children after a little while*, and many children likewife have not known their own Parents. ’* \
29. Is it then poffible , O that he who is fo changed , is not to be known, fhould be true? no, on the contrary , he is Falfhood , being in many Appearances of changes.
30. But do thou underftand the True to be that which abides the fame, and is Eternal , but man is not ever, therefore not T rue 5 but man is a certain Appearance, and Appearance is the higheft Lie or Fahhood.
3t* Bat thefe eternal Bodies,
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mjh
Father, are they not true though they
°f( be changed {
| Z1' Every thing that is be-
ligotten, or made, and changed, is not true $ but being made by our Proge- £s,nitor , they might have had true atter.
it! 33. But thefe alfo have in them- felves, fomething thatisfalfe, in re¬ gard of their change. ;
f 34. For nothing that remains not in it felf, is True.
* 35. Cat. What fhall one fay then, ather , that onelytheSuri, which : befides the Nature of other things, js not changed, but abides in it felf, is
3 6. ^errtt. It is Truth, and there¬ fore is he onely intrufted with the ^Workman (hip of the World, ruling "'iand making all things , whom I do both honor, and adore his Truth ; and after the Cne, and Firft,I acknowledg him the Workman.
f 37* What therefore doft thou
' O ? affirm
th
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affirm to be the fir ft Truth, O Fa¬ ther i
3§. ^erm, T he 0ne and ^npip, 0 %nt, that is not of Matter , that is not in a Body, that is without Colour, without Figure or Shape, Immutable, Unalterable , which always is $ but Falfhood, O Son, is corrupted.
39. And corruption hath laid hold upon all things on Earth,and the Pro¬ vidence of the %im encot and will encompafs them.
40. For without corruption, there
can no Generation confilb 1
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41# For Corruption followed! every Generation, that it may again be generated. I
42 . : For thole things that are gene¬ rated, muft of neccffity be generated of thofe things that are corrupted, and the things generated muft needs hecorrupted, that the Generation of
things being , may not ftandfBHw ceafe,
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ueritly the things that
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times another : For it is impolli they fhouldbemadc the fame things again 9 and that Vvhich is not the fame, w is it true I
45. Therefore, O Son, we muft call thefe things fantafies or appear¬ ances.
' 4 6. And if we will give a man his
right name, we muft call him the ap¬ pearance of Manhood 5 and a Childe, thefantafie or appearance of a Childe^ an old man, the appearance of an old roan f a young man, the appearance of a young man *, and a man of ripe age, the appearance of a man of ripe age. • - ‘
47. For neither is a man, a man 5 nor a childe, a childe ; nor a young man, a young man 5 nor an old man, an old man.
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4S. But the things that preexifl d that are , being changed , are falfe.
49. Thefe things underftand thus, O Son, as thefe falfe Operations, ha¬ ving their dependance from above even of the Truth it felf.
5°* W hich being fo, I do affirm, that FaHhood is the Work of Truth.
The end of the fifteenth Book.
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fpeak of the Soul and Body, O Son * after what maner the Soul is Immortal^and what operation that is
which conftitutes the Body, and dif
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2. ' But in none of thefe is Death,
for it is a conception of a name, which is either an empty word, or elfe it is wrongly called Death, by
thei taking away the firfi: letter, in- ftead of Immortal (
3. For Death is deftru&ion , but
there is nothing in the whole World that is deft royed.
4* For if the World be a fecond God, and an Immortal living Wight, it is impojftble that any part of an Im¬ mortal living Wight fliould die.
5. But all things that are in the World, are members of the World,
cfpecially Man, the reafonable living Wight. D
6 For the firft of all is God, the Eternal, and Unmade,and the Work¬ man of all things.
7. The lecond is the World, made by him, after his own Image, and by him holden together, and nourilhed, and immortalized $ and as from its
own Father, ever living.
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8. So that as Immortal, it is ever living, and eyer immortal.
g. For that which is ever living, differs from that which is eternal*
10. For the Eternal was not be¬ gotten, or made by another *, and if it were begotten or made , yet it was made by it felf, not by any other, but it is always made.
11. For the Eternal, as it is Eter^ nal,is the Univerfe.
12. For the Father him felf, isE- ternal of himfelf,,*, but the World was made by the Father, ever living, and
13. And as much Mater as there was laid up by him, the Father made it all into a Body , and fwelling it* made it round like a Sphere*, endued it with Quality,being it felf immortal, and having Eternal Materiality.
14. The Father being full of jw##* fowed Qualities in the Sphere, and (hut them up, as in a-Circle, delibera¬ ting to beautifie With every Quality,
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that which fhould afterwards be I made. 1
: 15. Then cloathing the Univerfal ]
Body with Immortality , left the I Matter, if it would depart from this 1 Compofitipn, (liould be diflolved into f its own diforder. I
16. For when the Matter was in- I corporeal, O Son, it was difordered, f and it hath here the fame confufion I daily revolved about other little j things, endued with Qualities,in point f of Augmentation , ^nd Dimunition, 1
which men call Death 3 being indeed
a' diforder happening about earthly | living wights. j
_ *7* Bor the Bodies of Heavenly I things, have one order, which they j have received from the Father at the 1 Beginning , and is by the inftauration of each of them , kept indiffolve- r. able. ; m
■ *8* But the inftauration of earthly I
Bodies , is their confiftence * and their diffolution reftores them into / in- j
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^ indiifoluble , that is. Immortal.
1/ ip- And fo there is made a priva¬ tion of Sente , but not a deftru&ion !fl, .of Bodies. ; ./ .
H- 20. Now the third living wight is
I Man , made after the Image of the iWorld 5 and having by- the Will of it the Father , a Minde above other nit earthly wights.
ai| 21. And he hath not onely a ([[-fympathy with the fecond God,'
II but alfo an understanding of the
i firft* v ' ; .
,j| 22. For the fecond God, he appre-
J hends as a Body 5 but the firft, he un- derftands as Incorporeal , and the Minde of the Good.
| 23. SCat. And doth not this living
• wight perilh i
I 24. Ipsrm. Speak adyifedly , O J Son, and learn what God is , what "| the World, what • an Immortal | Wight, and what a dilfolveable & One is. y !
1 25.' And underftand that the
Worlrl
t o 6 T he 1 6th B oo k,
World is of God, and in Go d but >f the World, and in the • . - v »
2 6, The Beginning, and End, and Confiftenee of all, is God.
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my Son 2Eaf in thy abfence , would needs '
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learn the Nature of the
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. that are * • He would notr fuffer me to give over ( as coming very young to the knowlcdg of every individual )
till I was forced to difeourfe to him
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■ many things at large, that his con¬ templation might from point to point, be more eafic and fuccefsful.
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2. But to thee, I have thought | good to write in few words, chufihg I out the principal heads of the things I then fpoken, and to interpret them I more myfticaliy , becaufe thou haft, I both more yeers, and more knowledg I of Nature. J r
3. All things that appear, were
made, and are made.
4. Thofe things that ar& made, are not made by themfelves, but by another.
" 5 . And there are many things
made, but efpecially all things that appear, and which are different, and not like.
6. If the things that be made and j done, be made and done by another, I there muft be one that muft make, and 1 do them 5 and he unmade, and more ft
ancient then the things that are I made. I
7. For I affirm the things that are I
made, to be made by another 5 and it I is impoftible, that of the things that 1
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if are made, any fhoidd be more ancient then all, but onely that which is not i made.
8. He is ftronger, and One, and onely knowing all things indeed , as not having any thing more ancient thenhimfelf. . ;
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9. For he bears rule, both over multitude, and -greatnefs, and the di- verfity of the things that are made,
I and the continuity of the Fa&urp, and of the Operation.
I I 10. Moreover, r the things that are ‘ made, are viable, but he is invifible 5 4 and for this caufe, he maketh them,
*1 that he may be vifible ; and therefore
he makes them always. '
i r . T hus it is fit to underftand,arid ? underftanding to admire, and. admi- ; ring to think thy felf happy , that knowefi- thy natural Father,
12. For what is Tweeter then a natural Father
1 3 . Who therefore is this, or how
we know him ? /
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The 17th Book of
14. Or is it juft to afcribe unto him alone, the Title and Appellation of
God, or of the Maker, or of the Fa*
ther, or all Three ' That of God
becaufe of his Power ♦ the Maker I
becaufe of his Working and Opera- 1
tion 5 and the Father, becaufe of his Goodnefs
15* For Power is different from j the things thatare made, but Mot ! Operation, in chat all things are made. lf’ Wherefore, letting go all
mudi and vain talking , wemuftim- oerltand thefe two things, &ijat tiDf$ !
ts matse, ano &tm foljtcfj is t tie Shaker ; i tor there is nothing in the middle, be- i
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u. I7* Therefore under (landing All things, remember thefe Two 5 and
think that thefe are All thin»« nur-
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20. For if he that makes be nothing elfe, but that which makes alone, ftmple, tmcompounce&, it is of neceffity, that he makes the fame thing to him-
\ felf, to whom it is the Generation of him that maketh to be alfo All that is, made. f
21. For that which is generated or made, muft neceffarily be generated o? made by another, but without the Maker that which is made, neither is made, nor is ; for the one of them without the other , hath loll hispro-
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22. So if thefe IVo be confefTed, . ,
That which maketh, and that which is made, then they are One in Union, this going before, and that following.
2 3. And that which goeth before, r | is, God the Maker- and that which follows, is, that which is made, be ic j what it will.
24; , Afidlet no man be afraid, be- caufe of the variety of things that are made op done , left he fbould caft an afperftdn of bafonefs, or infamy upon God 5 for it is the oneiy Glory of him to do, or make All things.
25* And this making, or flufture, is as it were the Body of God and to him that maketh, or doth, there is nothing evil, or filthy to be imputed, v Ujstc is nothing f^ougfjt etui, 02
26. For thefe are Paftions that fol¬ low Generation, as lluft doth Copper,' 1 eras Excrements do the Body. 1 iy. But neither did the Copper-
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the Filth, nor God the Eviinefs. i s 8. But the viciflkude of Genera¬ li tion doth make them, as it were to blolfom out 5 and for this caufedki , make Change to be, as one jfhould fay, f jThe Purgation of Generation*
51 25?. Moreover, is it lawfutfbrihe
{i" lame Painter to make both Heaven, and the Gods , and * the Earth, and
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and inanimate Things , and Tfees aland is it impoffble1 for God to make tthcfe things land ignorance of men in things that [concern God /
' ?o. For men t hate think fo,. fuffer that which is moft ridiculous of all 5 for profefling to bkfs,and praife God, )( yet in not afcribing to him the making i, doing of All things , they know him not.
f 31 . And befides their not knowing him , they are extreamly impious againft him , attributing unto him
Paflions,
Paflions, as Pri4cj or gDSerfig&f, 0r Weaknefs, or Ignorance, or Envy. ,
32. For if he do not make, or do
all things , he is either proud, or not able, or ignorant, or envious, which is impious to affirm.
! 33. For God hathonely onePaf
hon, namely , Good ; and he thac is good, is neither proud, nor impotent, nor the reft, but God is Good it felf.
34* For (2*000 is all loftier, to do or make all things , and every thing that is made, is made by God; that is, by the Good, and that can make, or do all things.
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_ 35. See then how he maketh all things, and how the things are done, thatare done ; and if thou wilt learn, j thou may eft fee an Image thereof,
very beautiful, and like. |
_ £&% Look upon the Husbandman, ] how he cafteth Seeds into the Earth, i here Wheat, there Barly, and elfe-
wherefome other Seeds.
37. Look upon the fame Man,
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38. So doth God in Heaven fbwe Immortality, in the Earth Change in
the whole Life, and Motion. ,
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l! but few, and eafily numbred 5 for they .are all but four, God and Generation.,,
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