OCELLUS LUCANUS

ON THE UNIVERSE.

CHAP. I.

Ocellus Lucanus has written what follows concerning the Nature of the Universe; having learned some things through clear arguments from Nature herself, but others from opinion, in conjunction with reason See Additional Notes, (A.), it being his intention [in this work] to derive what is probable from intellectual perception.

It appears, therefore, to me, that the Universe is indestructible and unbegotten, since it always was, and always will be; for if it had a temporal beginning, it would not have always existed. Thus, therefore, the universe is unbegotten and indestructible; for if someone should opine that it was once generated, he would not be able to find anything into which it can be corrupted and dissolved, since that from which it was generated would be the first part of the universe; and again, that into