Elements of Theology

tfaings causally subsist, absorbed in superesseotial light, and involved in unfathomable depths, a beauteous progeny of principles proceed, ail largely partaking of the ineffable, all stamped widi the occult characters of deitjr, all possessing an overflowing fulness of good. From these dazzling summits, these ineffable blossoms, these divine propagations, being, life, intellect, soul, nature, and body depend; monads suspended from unities, deified natures proceeding from deities. Each of these monads too, is the leader of a series which extends from itself to the last of diings, add which while it proceeds from, at the same time abides in, and returns, to its leader. And all these principles and all their progeny are finally centered and rooted by their summits in the first great iA-compre« bending one. Thus all beings proceed from, and are comprehended in the first being ; all intel^ lects emanate from one first intellect ; all souls from one first soul ; all natures blossom from otie first nature ; and aU. bodies proceed from the vital and luminous body of die world. . And lastly, all these great monads are comprdiended in the first one, from which both they and all their depending series are unfolded into light. Hence this first one is truly the unity of unities, the monad of monads, the principle of principles, the God of Gods, one and all things, and yet one prior to aH.