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For if a divine number has a precedaneous cause, viz. _the one_,
just as an intellectual number has intellect, and a psychical number
soul, and if multitude is every where analogous to its cause, it is
evident that a divine number is unical, since _the one_ is God. But
this follows, since _the one_ and _the good_ are the same. For _the
good_ and God are the same. For that beyond which there is nothing,
and after which all things aspire, is God. And also that from which
all things proceed, and to which all things tend. But this is good. If
therefore, there is a multitude of Gods, the multitude is unical. But
that there is, is evident. For every principal cause is the leader of
an appropriate multitude which is similar and allied to the cause.
PROPOSITION CXIV.
Every God is a self-perfect unity, and every self-perfect unity is a
God.
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For if the number of unities is twofold, as has been before
demonstrated, and some are self-perfect, but others are illuminations
from the self-perfect unities, and if a divine number is allied to and
connatural with _the one_ and _the good_, the Gods are self-perfect
unities. And vice versa, if there is a self-perfect unity it is a God.
For as unity is in the most eminent degree allied to _the one_, and the
self-perfect to _the good_, so likewise according to both these the
self-perfect participates of the divine peculiarity and is a God. But
if a God was a unity, yet not a self-perfect unity, or a self-perfect
hypostasis, yet not a unity, he would be arranged in another order, on
account of the mutation of the peculiarity.[260]
PROPOSITION CXV.
Every God is superessential, supervital, and superintellectual.
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