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1		"All things are full of God."

2		"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."

3		"Languages differ, but mankind is one."

4		"The Kosmos is ever one, and is a living and ever-living being."

5		"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."

6		"All individuals are united to the whole; so that we see that the whole is one, and of the one are all things."

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

8		"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."

9		"God makes all things for himself; and all things are parts of God. And inasmuch as all things are parts of him, God is all things. Therefore, in making all things, God makes himself."

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

11		"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."

12		"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."

13		"The Justice that rules on high knows how to assign to each his due

14		"The world has been made by God's providence."

15		"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."

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

17		"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."

18		"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."

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

20		"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

21		"God is all things; from him are all things; and all things are dependent on his will, and on his inimitable wisdom."

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

23		"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."

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

25		"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."