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them, or excludes them ; and matter, which makes 

 explicit what it contains implicitly, ought to be called a 

 Divine thing : it is the substance of nature." * Thus 

 the One is the only ultimate reality ; it is neither matter 

 things in nor form, yet both together, implicitly. And it has 

 >ne ' no parts, or all parts, for all parts coincide in it, the 

 smallest with the greatest, in it all particular things 

 coincide with one another, and all differences. It has 

 all possible existence and is therefore unchangeable, 

 it has all perfections and therefore is infinitely perfect. 



"The universe is one, infinite, immovable. One 

 is the absolute possibility, one the reality. One the 

 form or soul, one matter or body. One the thing, one 

 the ens. One the greatest and best, which can not be 

 comprised, and therefore can neither be ended nor 

 limited, and even so is infinite and unlimited, and con- 

 sequently immovable. It does not move locally, for 

 there is no place outside of itself, to which it might 

 transport itself (for it is the all). Of it is no generation, 

 for there is no other existence which it can desire or 

 expect, for it has all existence. Of it is no corrup- 

 tion, for there is no other thing to which it can 

 change ; it is everything. It cannot grow less or 

 greater, for it is infinite ; it cannot be added to, and it 

 cannot be subtracted from, for the infinite has no 

 proportional parts. It cannot be subject to mutation 

 in any quality whatever, nor is there anything contrary 

 to, or diverse from it, which may alter it, for in it all 

 things are in harmony." 2 In it height is not greater 

 than length or depth ; hence by a kind of simile it may 

 be called a sphere. It has no parts, for a part of the 

 infinite must be infinite, and if it is infinite it concurs in 

 one with the whole ; hence the universe is one, infinite, 



1 Lag. 273, 274. 2 Lag. 277. 



