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Select Works, Section 700 (part 2)

Thus we must speak of God since we cannot tell Him as we would.
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Themes
Emanation Hierarchycosmology

A chain of divine beings or principles flowing downward from a single transcendent source (the One or the Father), each level less perfect than the one above.

[auto] The text implies a hierarchical structure flowing from the source of reason through Intellectual-Principle to Nature, which brings form to things.

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Logoscosmology

The divine reason, word, or ordering principle through which the universe was created; mediates between the transcendent God and the material world.

[auto] The passage centrally argues that reason, order, and limit originate from a divine source rather than chance, defining the ordering principle of the universe.

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Monadcosmology

The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.

The reference to the 'source of all reason' aligns with the concept of a single, undivided first principle from which existence flows.

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Unity Of Beingtheology

The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.

The argument against chance in favor of a single source of reason supports the doctrine that reality is ultimately unified under one divine principle.

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