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| Simon's System of a Threefold Emanation by Pairs.
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Chapter
VII.—Simon’s System of a Threefold Emanation by
Pairs.
For, he says, he is in the habit of considering
that all these portions of the fire, both visible and invisible, are
possessed of perception and a share of intelligence.622
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νώματος
αἶσαν: Miller has γνώμην
ἴσην, which yields but little sense. | The world, therefore, that which is
generated, was produced from the unbegotten fire. It began,
however, to exist, he says, according to the following manner. He
who was begotten from the principle of that fire took six roots, and
those primary ones, of the originating principle of generation.
And, he says that the roots were made from the fire in pairs, which
roots he terms “Mind” and “Intelligence,”
“Voice” and “Name,” “Ratiocination”
and “Reflection.” And that in these six roots resides
simultaneously the entire indefinite power potentially, (however) not
actually. And this indefinite power, he says, is he who stood,
stands, and will stand. Wherefore, whensoever he may be made into
an image, inasmuch as he exists in the six powers, he will exist
(there) substantially, potentially, quantitively, (and)
completely. (And he will be a power) one and the same with the
unbegotten and indefinite power, and not labouring under any greater
deficiency than that unbegotten and unalterable (and) indefinite
power. If, however, he may continue only potentially in the six
powers, and has not been formed into an image, he vanishes, he says,
and is destroyed in such a way as the grammatical or geometrical
capacity in man’s soul. For when the capacity takes unto
itself an art, a light of existent things is produced; but when (the
capacity) does not take unto itself (an art), unskilfulness and
ignorance are the results; and just as when (the power) was
non-existent, it perishes along with the expiring
man.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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