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"being departing (a) [is also succeeding (6), the succeeding] 

 is also departing. Of the Entities some indeed are in 

 bodies, some in ideas (c), but some energies ; but body is 

 in ideas, 1 but idea and energy in body. The immortal 

 partakes not of the mortal, but the mortal does partake of 

 the immortal. The mortal indeed comes not into immortal 

 body, but the immortal becomes present in mortal. The 

 energies are not upward tending (d), but downward tend- 

 ing. Things upon earth profit nothing those in Heaven, 

 those in Heaven profit all those upon earth. The Heaven 

 is receptive of eternal bodies, the earth is receptive 

 of corruptible bodies. The earth irrational, the Heaven 

 rational Things in Heaven lie underneath (e), things 

 upon earth lie on the earth. The Heaven is first of 

 elements. The earth last of elements. Divine Provi- 

 dence order, Necessity subservient to Providence. 2 For- 

 tune, 3 course of the disorderly (/), effigy of energy, lying 

 opinion. What is God ? Immutable Good. What Man ? 

 Immutable Evil. 



Having remembered these heads, thou wilt also be im- 

 mediately reminded of what things I went through to thee 

 in fuller words ; for these are the summaries of those. But 

 abstain from these conversations (g) with the many, for 

 to grudge thee I do not wish, but rather that thou wilt 

 appear to be ridiculous to many. For the like is accepted 

 with the like, but the unlike is by no means friendly with 

 the unlike. For these the -words have altogether the 

 listeners few, or speedily they will have not even few. 

 They have also something peculiar in themselves ; they 

 rather stimulate those evil unto the evil. Wherefore one 



(a) ecTroyiyyofAevtv. (6) g-T/y/yj/gTc*/. The text incomplete. 



(c) iQeeii(. (d) dvaQepsJ;. (e) 



(/) T W Q Q p4 araxTov. (g} 



1 The word /Sea seems here to signify shape or model. 



2 See Poemandres, x. 20, and note. 



3 Plato's definition of Fortune : " Cause in things unpreferred, ac- 

 cording to accident, and consequence and chancing and variable 

 habitude of choice in relation to the purpose respecting the end" 

 (Stobseus, Physica, 204 ; Meineke, i. 53). 



