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complete the hyparxis itself and not according to this hyparxis in its entirety. Thus, the anhomogeneous generation also proceeds from the hyparxis, but from the divided hyparxis, and according to one of the divided particularities that it contains. But how is the Jupiterean series I read with Ruelle: helios, instead of Dios. proceeding from Zeus one of the several series flowing from him The meaning is obscure; Ruelle proposes reading: ap' autou, instead of apo tou.? It is that every synonymy is produced according to the producer in its entirety; this is why it is synonymous with the whole, although, by its more particular character, it departs from it in a certain respect more. All of Zeus is father of all the gods, although he proceeds more according to one of the gods contained within him. For the God twice beyond is everywhere in his entirety, and if one calls the God himself Zeus, one also calls Zeus one of the particular sources contained within him, just as Helios is one and Athena is another, different one. For each particular series of a God flows from a certain particular source; and if there is a particular source called by the name of Zeus, it will be homonymous to the entire series and it will produce from itself a particular series.

But certainly, on the contrary, the particular source alone and not the total source is named Zeus, and if the name is common, it will be nothing but a homonym; indeed, the nature of each is different, since one is the Source of the total sources and emits from itself only the Source-Series original: "Σειρὰν πηγαίαν", while the other is the Source of particular sources and proceeds into the Archai first principles/Dominations original: "Ἀρχαί" and the Archangels, the azones unbounded ones original: "τοὺς ἀζώνους" and the zones, as is the law of the procession of what one designates under the name of particular Sources. Indeed, already in the other Sources, universal and particular,