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"All things that come to pass by nature come to pass according to Providence, and there is no place destitute of Providence." |
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"It is in God that nature has her being." |
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"It is manifest that the Maker is one; for soul is one, and life is one, and matter is one." |
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"All things are linked together, and connected one with another in a chain extending from the lowest to the highest; so that we see that they are not many, or rather, that all are one. For inasmuch as all things hang on the One and flow from the One, we think indeed that they are many when we look at them apart, but when we regard them as united, we hold them to be one." Asclepius III:19c |
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"God does not ignore man, but acknowledges him to the full, and wills to be acknowledged by him. And this alone, even the knowledge of God, is man's salvation; this is the ascent to Olympus; and by this alone can a soul become good." Libellus X:15a |
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"The Good is the one thing which is the source of all things, and supplies all things at all times." |
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"There is not, and has never been, and never will be in the Kosmos anything that is dead. For it was the Father's will that the Kosmos, as long as it exists, should be a living being." Libellus XII:15b |
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"God is the Maker of all things, and makes all things like to himself." |
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"The Kosmos moves within the very life of eternity, and is contained in that very eternity whence all life issues." |
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"The Kosmos is made by God and contained in God….It is God that is the author of all, and encompasses all, and knits all things together." |
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"It is not difficult to contemplate God in thought, or even, if you will, to see him. Look at the order of the Kosmos; look at…the providence shown in things that have been, and in things that come to be; look at matter filled to the full with life, and see this great god in movement, with all things that are contained in him." |
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"God is the All; and there is nothing that is not included in the All. Hence there is neither magnitude nor place nor quality nor shape nor time beside God; for God is all, and the All permeates all things." |
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"There are two images of God; the Kosmos is one, and man is another, inasmuch as he, like the Kosmos, is a single whole built up of diverse parts." |
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"It is God's Will that constitutes the existence of all things that are." Libellus IX:2 |
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"God made a law by which he ordained that all the souls alike should be everlasting, inasmuch as they were all made of one substance." |
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"Languages differ, but mankind is one." |
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"God is of one nature with the Good." |
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"Then God will look on that which has come to pass and will stay the disorder by the counterworking of his will, which is the good. He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; he will cleanse the world from evil, now washing it away with waterfloods, now burning it out with fiercest fire, or again expelling it by war and pestilence. And thus he will bring back his world to its former aspect, so that the Kosmos will once more be deemed worthy of worship and wondering reverence, and God, the maker and restorer of the mighty fabric, will be adored by the men of that day with unceasing hymns of praise and blessing. Such is the new birth of the Kosmos; it is a making again of all things good, a holy and awe-striking restoration of all nature; and it is wrought in the process of time by the eternal will of God." Asclepius III |
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"Man is a being of divine nature." |
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"From God and in God and through God are all things, - all the various and multiform qualities, the vast and measureless magnitudes, and the forms of every aspect." |
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"The mind in us…penetrates all things." |
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"The movements are diverse and many, and the bodies differ one from another, but there is one ordered system which extends through all." Libellus XI:9 |
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"The Kosmos is ever one, and is a living and ever-living being." |
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"All these souls which shift about from place to place throughout the Kosmos are, so to speak, parted off and portioned out from one soul, even the soul of the universe." |
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"For as a man cannot live without breathing, even so God cannot exist without making that which is good; and that is life. He is ever at his work, and is himself that which he makes." Libellus XI:17c |