On the Mysteries

The second order exists from the good will.

A portion of the text is lost or fragmentary at the beginning. ...in a way that the things of the gods depend upon it, as do the demons and those who stand everywhere in attendance upon them, following them, as they are the servants of the first births, yet remaining in the good will of the gods, always rejoicing in their invisible good. By approximating things to it, and by the creative decrees, as it is assimilated to the same will, it is then lifted up from it, the expressible, and the conscious was in all by reason, and it approaches the manifest to the irrational things of the all-progenitor of it. And it is beneficent, as the things of the fifth, which go along with them, providing through itself its own envy, for those with whom the tongue is taught...

These things, then, in this way complete the common bond, of the gods and of us, their unshakable unity, by weaving, produces one continuity from above down to the last, and harmonizes with all the communion of the wholes. And it is expressible, concerning the most sovereign and proportionate things in the wholes, which they held as participating. But since it carries from the better to the worse by the power of those from the lesser to the former, it refers back to the worthy. But the things here, even with the better transmission of them, are exalted, and the angelic service is thrown into the more imperfect. And it makes all things suitable to all and harmonizing, receiving them from above from the one cause, from the gods. We must not think that these things of our opinions are of a private power, or activity, or essence, nor should we take them without the supervision of their own opinions. But this is common and extends to all, this is the divine from the good of infinity, concerning which, being unsearchable and having provided evidence, it has also surrounded those who come to them, the bodily and the things of its own urges. The one thing is established as something or what kind, or indeed permanently established, immutably. But the co-cause of the indivisible is the unmoved, so understood through them as a cause of necessary motion. But that which is...

Note concerning this same thing: the judgment of the gods.