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👉 And that is what [ the #Philosopher ] says. " }

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💠 "Le Livre des XXIV #Philosophes" 💠
[ #Opuscule en latin, ca. IVe siècle AD. ]

{ Sources: Text and comments in Latin, The #Laon Manuscript, an Italian Version and a French Version by Françoise Hudry. }

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👉 then it #Generates a large quantity of #Brightness, however Not within the #Created thing itself.

Hence, in the Created #Intelligence / [ #Experience ] there is ' Only / #Pure Ignorance '. This, accomplished by the #Grace of [ The Deity ], may suffice ). 👉

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👉 there is Only a Divine #Similitude; and in Itself, The [ Deity's ] light #Generates and #Multiplies the brightness / #Splendor, albeit [ Without ] undergoing any #Change.

( L= But, since there is within that which is #Created, a #Deformation / a #Warp, in regards to Its #Creator, 👉

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👉 therefore, [ the #Primary Light ] #Flows/Pours within All the things.

( L= As there are No such #Possibilities in the #Creatures, or in the #Created things, that would fragment The #Divine Light within Its #Action, then it certainly goes #Through The #Soul ).

But #Within the things, 👉

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👉 in regards to The #Divine Light ).

And this, Is [ The Deity's ] #Brightness / #Splendor.

The Divine #Light does Not find, within the #Created things, such a #Possibility / #Power / Materiality, [ that would be ] #Intense enough so as to fragment It in Its Own #Action; 👉

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👉 [ The All then ] #Pierces / passes Through As #Accidental Forms, which are the results of this #Diffraction of Its Own #Essence.

( L= That #Dense environment, opposes the #Infinity [ that dwells ] within [ the state of ] #Being of the #Creatures themselves 👉

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💠 Liber Viginti Quattuor Philosophorum 💠

[ Latin #Opuscule, circa 4th century AD. ]
[ Part III (Quater) ]

👉 [ then ] The #Light fragments Itself in #Rays, ( L adds: and so with it ) [ ie ] in The #Highest Degree of Its #Brightness ( L= Multiplying itself ), 👉

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👉 ( L= which #Produce ) such #Darkness that The #Light is Not able to Re- #Illuminate / Clarify / Purge it, because of its #Violent / #Furious power ( L= #Density ), 👉

#LePorteurDeLumière
#LObstacle
#AlchimieParVoieRoyale
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👉 mais seulement comme une référence à ce qui est semblable à L'Un ( L=om., reprise de la définition XXIII )."

♦️ Commentary XXIV:

{ " This definition refers to The #Essence.

When ( L= As ) the #Created Light falls upon a #Dark thing that has 👉

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" [ The Deity ] Is #Light whose #Fragmentation does Not Weakens It, that #Flows / Pours, but Only as a reference to what is #Similar to The One ( L= om. / the 23rd definition is resumed ). "

" Dieu est La lumière dont le fractionnement ne l'affaiblit pas, qui se répand, 👉

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👉 And this, is #True Ignorance, namely, to #Know what [ The Deity ] is Not, and to Ignore what It #Is. " }

🔱 Sentence XXIV:

🌐 " Deus est lux quae fractione non clarescit, transit, sed sola deiformitas in re ( L= om. definitio ). " 🌐

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👉 about the other things ( L adds: and The #Soul itself ), #Extracting from them The First #Cause itself ( L= om. ), and #Understanding its Own opposition to ( L= and ) The #Nothing, then [ the #Soul ] will gain all the #Knowledge that it will be able to #Reach. 👉

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👉 except the one that The First #Cause, by Its Virtue, has #Poured into it. Therefore, the Soul will have no #Knowledge of what ( L= who ) is #Above it, [ and thus ], no Knowledge of The First #Cause.

But, when [ the Soul ] will have #Contemplated all that is #Knowledgeable 👉

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👉 can be understood through the 21th sentence.

( L adds: Accordingly, ) Nothing is #Known to The #Soul but what it can #Receive the #Idea of; and thereafter, compare [ this #Concept ] to the #Model it has within itself.

In truth, The #Soul has no Model 👉

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🔱 Sentence XXIII:

🌐 " Deus est qui sola ignorantia mente cognoscitur. " 🌐

" [ The Deity ] is the #One that The #Mind knows Only through #Ignorance. "

" Dieu est celui que l’esprit apprend à connaître de sa seule ignorance. "

♦️Commentary XXIII:

{ " This definition 👉

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👉 [ Indeed, under no circumstance whatsoever ], that which is #Vivifying ( L= Uniting ); that, within Itself, #Assembles the things, can suffer Any #Combination [ of Any sort ] from intercepting the #Impurities It has #Amassed ( L= Attracted ). " }

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👉 of Its Own Essence to the #Being [ through any ] #Adherence [ effect ].

Neither does The Divine #Form, which gives to the things the #Shape itself, nor the #Virtue of something #External, [ can induce within The Deity ] Any #Alteration. 👉

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💠 Liber Viginti Quattuor Philosophorum 💠

[ Latin #Opuscule, circa 4th century AD. ]
[ Part III (Ter) ]

👉 they Remain / are #Perpetuated.

[ Thus, are ] #Begotten the things from that which #Generates; for [ The Deity ] does Not #Divides Itself ,nor #Concedes Anything 👉

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👉 the #Principle of their #Existence / #Essence ( L= so that through what is #Generated, the #Generator Is ).

[ Indeed ], they #Stabilize themselves in [ the state of ] #Being, through that which is #Generated; [ and ] within that which is #Vivifying ( L= The #Uniformity ), 👉

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♦️ Commentary XXII:

{ " Through the intervention of Its #Threefold Essence over The #Nothing, [ The Deity ], according to Its #Forms, brings forth [ the state of #Being ] to the things that are #Created; thus, out of that which #Generates, they Get / Assume / #Perceive 👉

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👉 #Alteration, #Within whom Is what Is, Without #Commixtion / #Combination / #Composition. "

" Dieu est celui de qui est tout ce qui est, sans division; grâce à qui cela est, sans modification; en qui est ce qui est, sans composition. "

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🔱 Sentence XXII:

🌐 " Deus est ex quo est quicquid est non partitione, per quem est non variatione, in quo est quod est non commixtione. " 🌐

" [ The Deity ] is The One #From whom #Is Everything that #Is, Without #Division, #Through whom Is what Is, Without #Variation / 👉

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👉 the #Intellect of the Soul #Darkens / Becomes #Tenebrous, because It is Not #Apt to sustain that #Uncreated Light.

Therefore, when [ The #Soul ] carries out this #Revolution towards Itself, It says:

Here, i am in The #Darkness ( L= om.). " }

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👉 #Forms, that the Soul #Contemplates the Divinity.

Refusing and suppressing from Itself All the #Ideas of [ that which is #Created ], ( L= until ) [ the Soul ] turns round completely, #Beyond Itself, and wants / #Wishes to See / #Perceive the First #Cause.

[ That is when ] 👉

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👉 #Reveal that which is #Contained within its depths.

[ Indeed, The Deity ] Is, in some way, All the things; for ( L= it is said that ) [ The #One ] Is what #Illuminates the things within The #Soul.

But only, afterwards, [ when ] It has #Stripped itself of All these ( L adds: common ) 👉

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" [ The Deity ] is The #Darkness that remains within The #Soul beyond All #Light. "

" Dieu est ténèbres dans l’âme, celle qui reste après toute lumière. "

♦️ Commentary XXI:

{ " The #Ideas / #Nature / #Forms of the things ( L= which are ) present within The #Soul, 👉

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👉 by [ the means of ] Its #Unity.

But rather ( L= om. ), ( L adds: [ The Deity ] Lives ) #Within Itself ( L= #By Itself ) and #Through the thought / [ #Idea ] of Itself [ as ] #Supercorporeal. " }

🔱 Sentence XXI:

🌐 "Deus est tenebra in anima post omnem lucem relicta." 🌐

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👉 they #Convert [ that which is #Other ] into their Own #Nature.

[ The Deity ] does Not Live like ( L= As ) the #Supercelestial bodies which get the #Movement from The #Spirits; nor does It Lives ( L= om. ) like the #Minds, namely the #Souls ( L= om. ), which are #Sustained 👉

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💠 Liber Viginti Quattuor Philosophorum 💠

[ Latin #Opuscule, circa 4th century AD. ]
[ Part III (Bis) ]

♦️ Commentary XX:

{ " [ The Deity ] does Not Live like the #Bodies that receive #External substances #Within themselves, so that ( L= that is how ) 👉

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