place," he wrote, "the Yliaster divided itself and developed 

 out of itself the Ideos or Primordial Essence ; this is of a 

 monistic nature and manifests itself not only as a vital activ- 

 ity, a spiritual force, an invisible, incomprehensible and inde- 

 scribable power, but also as vital matter of which the sub- 



stance of living beings consists. In the Limbus, or Ideos of 

 primordial matter, the matrix of all created things, the sub- 

 stance of all things is contained. As creation took place and 

 the Yliaster dissolved, Ares, the differentiating power of the 

 Supreme Cause began to act ; all production took place in con- 

 ies 



