On the Mysteries

apo :

the good
above
the gods
impassable :

In this way, then, one might find the sought-after. But if one ascends of words?, the unity on the things referring does not help, for instance in the things brought forward to the theologians. And again in the movements in the demons and heroes. And the last, in the souls, one can again be bounded in the quality. What, then, is the correctness of the things grasped of the inquirer, and the definition of it, how again it is impassable and how it is possible to become, let it be shown to us through these. So that, as through a starting point, the most noted one is moved toward the answer of the questions, the thing existing according to essence. For instance, we also speak of the essence, both the one standing and precious in the, and being bodiless by itself, and as not only indivisible and extending the things taken, casting down. We keep the proper order of the wholes, and it is not the same in all. The same thing exists in the laws of nature as well. We, however, to those having the bodiless and uncircumscribed itself, of the care, and those ordered toward matter and slaves, they are established as an essence of the good, no longer providing. Nor is it a cause of good, being prior even to this essence, but some hold of the from it, and into those nearby, whence we observe either the world or the change of virtue, being much different. But the one conceived on the causes, itself is indeed undoubted to all, as it comes to be motionless in the more living things. But the immutability is given to the souls and is inextinguishable. It is never departing and perishing itself. Nor is it removed by some things. The beginning and end of such is not in the divine...

heavens
the term gods
souls and
all demons
heroes.

souls are not good
by essence but
by habit : -

• Therefore, the mediator of the highest boundaries. Higher indeed, of the order of the souls, of those of the heroes clearly ordered, by power, and virtue, and after these, great. And to all the angels being around the souls, it primarily exceeds. But very lovingly, however, it is necessary to know, the whole of life is of like form.