Many / One

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1		"Be careful to remember him, the One who is all things, - him who is the creator of all things."

2		"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."

3		"The sky is moist and dry, cold and hot, bright and obscured by turns; these are the rapidly alternating forms included under the one ideal or universal form of the sky. The earth is ever passing through many changes of form; it generates produce, it nourishes the produce it has generated, it yields all manner of crops, with manifold differences of quality and quantity; and above all, it puts forth many sorts of trees, differing in the scent of their flowers and the taste of their fruits. Water takes different forms, now standing, and now running. Fire undergoes many changes, and assumes godlike forms;…they are like our mirrors, and reproduce the ideal or universal form in visible copies with rival brilliance."

4		"Man is a being of divine nature."

5		"Whether he of whom I speak be called God, or Father, or Master of all, whatever be the name which we name him to convey our meaning in our talk with one another, it is for men to hallow the name with a higher sanctity by contemplation of his supreme divinity."

6		"The mind in us…penetrates all things."

7		"God is the first of all things, and the universe is divine, and nature is divine."

8		"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

9		"God is the Maker of all things, and makes all things like to himself."

10		"There is nothing that comes to be or has come to be, in which God is not."

11		"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

12		"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."

13		"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."

14		"God is of one nature with the Good."

15		"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."

16		"It is manifest that the Maker is one; for soul is one, and life is one, and matter is one."

17		"God, the Master and Maker and Encompasser of all, is both One and all things;…for the whole which is made up of all things is one."

18		"It is God's Will that constitutes the existence of all things that are." Libellus IX:2

19		"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

20		"The ordered system in which each and all by the supreme Artist's skill are wrought together into a single whole yields a divinely musical harmony, sweet and true."

21		"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

22		"The Kosmos moves within the very life of eternity, and is contained in that very eternity whence all life issues."

23		"Man has been made by God in the image of God. God has fashioned with consummate skill each member of [the human] body; every one of the members is perfectly adapted both for use and for beauty."

24		"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

25		"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."