On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians

by unity, and a number that is, of all things, most allied to its cause; these natures are none other than the Gods.

According to this theology, therefore, from the immense principle of principles—in which all things causally exist, absorbed in superessential light and involved in unfathomable depths—a beautiful progeny of principles proceeds. All these participate largely in the ineffable, are all stamped with the hidden characters of the deity, and all possess an overflowing fullness of good. From these dazzling summits, these ineffable blossoms, these divine propagations, being, life, intellect, soul, nature, and body depend; monads suspended from unities, and deified natures proceeding from deities. Each of these monads is the leader of a series which extends from itself to the last of things, and which, while it proceeds from its leader, at the same time abides in and returns to it. All these principles and their progeny are finally centered and rooted by their summits in the first great, all-comprehending One. Thus, all beings proceed from, and are comprehended in, the first