THE ONE IS SUPERIOR TO REST AND MOTION.

7. The First (or One) is the potentiality of movement and of rest;

consequently, He is superior to both things. The Second principle

relates to the First by its motion and its rest; it is Intelligence,

because, differing from the First, it directs its thought towards Him,

while the First does not think (because He comprises both the thinking

thing, and the thing thought); He thinks himself, and, by that very

thing, He is defective, because His good consists in thinking, not in

its "hypostasis" (or existence).

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