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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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THE ST \NDING-GROUND OF PHILOSOPHY 175.he physical gods fi es bed. and those wh howhem h hey please, being h traditionalds whom he had just shunted aside, and to addthem thus : Y« gods <strong>of</strong> gods, <strong>of</strong> whom I m heconstructor d ,ther, all things med by m arein virtue <strong>of</strong> iy will indissolub Whatever, indeedhas been ;n C( composed is dissoluble, but to desire t dhat is beautifully harmonised and well di: dwould be a mark <strong>of</strong> evil. Now inasmuch y aretedt immortal nor absolutely indble, yet you shall never be dissolved, nor be subjtt( the lot <strong>of</strong> death t f my will, wh 11 is aS t m powerful bond th in wha t vourgeneration bound yoiT the I );3Mjiurg Plato h mblance tth Z f G d wh h hhand. D preme God mply the ancestral Z,lted by ,h butes <strong>of</strong> power, wisdom dgoodness which can be given to a constructin tgence until he becomes the Demiurge <strong>of</strong> Plato; this, Dio has un d himself with that mythology whichPlato put asid He has invested the form <strong>of</strong> th<strong>of</strong> ronos h a cert d iy, so t thgods i d godd h w f ecm lin dlike p< h himself recede into something like hminist <strong>The</strong>y would be simply his ministers, if tlnotion <strong>of</strong> creat had tered t D mind Aspecies <strong>of</strong> monotheism tries to arrange itself with thmanifold m f the Greek polytheism. It I is talliance < <strong>of</strong> philosophy h h tablished w hipder the empire, who d is h god P hh b he whole civil power, but lik hble image <strong>of</strong> the Capitoline Jupow these th Epictebus, Plutarch, and D

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