TRUE KNOWLEDGE SHOWN NOT BY UNIFICATION, BUT REVELATION OF DIVINE POWER.

It is not by reducing all things to unity, but by setting forth the

greatness developed by the divinity itself, that one manifests his

knowledge of divine power. The Divinity (manifests His power) when,

though remaining what He is, He produces many divinities which depend

on Him, which proceed from Him, and exist by Him. In this way this

world holds existence from Him, and contemplates Him along with all the

divinities which announce to men the divine decrees, and who reveal to

them whatever pleases them.[353] These stars must not be blamed for not

being what the divinity is, for they only represent their nature.

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