125 words isn't very many, so here are some explanatory footnotes:
Everything that exists at a given level has a counterpart in a higher level. (That is, humans have an angelic part; humans and angels have a soul; humans, angels, and souls all exist in Spirit, hence we say "all is one;" and all things are good.)
By "contentment," I mean not continually needing external input to maintain one's existence. (E.g. humans have needs to meet in order to survive, angels do not.)
"Imagination" is the level above matter because you need to imagine something before you can make it. (The Neoplatonists consider this true of all things, not only things made by human craft.)
By "self-sufficient," I mean not depending upon some other existent to exist. (E.g. angels have composite natures and depend on the gods for their existence, while the gods have primal natures, not dependent upon any others.)
When I say Spirit is unbounded, I mean that it's effectively infinite: it continually conceives all things that are conceivable.
The reason Good is universal is because of our axiom: every thing pursues that which is good to it. This is a universal axiom—it discusses all things that exist—and so the principle of universality must be the Good. Since the Good is universal, it lacks nothing, and so it can pursue nothing.
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Date: 2024-06-16 08:48 pm (UTC)Everything that exists at a given level has a counterpart in a higher level. (That is, humans have an angelic part; humans and angels have a soul; humans, angels, and souls all exist in Spirit, hence we say "all is one;" and all things are good.)
By "contentment," I mean not continually needing external input to maintain one's existence. (E.g. humans have needs to meet in order to survive, angels do not.)
"Imagination" is the level above matter because you need to imagine something before you can make it. (The Neoplatonists consider this true of all things, not only things made by human craft.)
By "self-sufficient," I mean not depending upon some other existent to exist. (E.g. angels have composite natures and depend on the gods for their existence, while the gods have primal natures, not dependent upon any others.)
When I say Spirit is unbounded, I mean that it's effectively infinite: it continually conceives all things that are conceivable.
The reason Good is universal is because of our axiom: every thing pursues that which is good to it. This is a universal axiom—it discusses all things that exist—and so the principle of universality must be the Good. Since the Good is universal, it lacks nothing, and so it can pursue nothing.