Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, Volume 1

For assuredly it is the monad that, according to the number that is in it, generates both all numbers in a block and each of the numbers specified according to a single species, a species constituting a certain determined whole that embraces its own plurality within itself.

Finally, and besides these consequences, let us conclude also that all things that are in a distinct state in the consequent degrees are in a gathered state in the antecedent degrees. This is why all things are both in the intelligible diacosmos world-order/arrangement and in the intellectual diacosmos and in the intermediate diacosmos, and also in each of the things with a emptier content, down to the sensible, but in a manner proper to each, according to all the other particularities by which one could determine in each its proper character, but especially according to the "more" and the "less," and even more according to the mode proper to each of union and distinction; for they differ from one another by the enveloping and the enveloped.

What then! Is the procession of the consequents issued from the antecedents not a creation, but only a manifestation outward, a distinction, as we call it, of things which, on high, are hidden and concentrated? Yes, but we call "distinction" that which institutes each thing in its proper hyparxis, which was not previously its distinctive character, for it had not yet distinguished itself, according to all its coagregation, into a characteristic property: it was thus the hyparxis of another thing, of a thing having by itself its entire and complete hypostasis underlying reality/substance; so that it is the same thing to say that the consequents are distinguished from their immediate antecedents, or to say that they are generated by them.

But then, if in the antecedents are gathered all the things that are distinguished in those that follow them, the individual species will also be equally concentrated