Iamblichus on the Mysteries; Psellus on Demons

in the first, and the superior, just as archetypes, lead the inferior, certainly it is produced from the superior, and essence and species are present simultaneously to the inferior, and generally in the better ones, the following things are produced first. And therefore, order and measure depend upon them in the following things, and not the other way around; therefore, the properties of the latter are not to be assigned by the former. An incorporeal essence, therefore, cannot be distinguished by corporeal qualities with which it has nothing in common. Divine principles not only bestow essence upon their works, but also the entire distinction and formal order. An essence that is present to bodies, not locally, is not distinguished by corporeal places, and that which is not confined by the particular circumscriptions of subjects, the same is by no means contained particularly by the parts of the world. An incorporeal nature is suddenly present wherever it wishes, with nothing preventing it anywhere.

Much more so is divinity, which, the less it is [limited], the more it is everywhere, not restricted by any boundary. Likewise, those things which are among us cannot be made and formed unless a certain creative power and a participation of species be diffused through all things. Finally, unless they are divine, the efficacy of sacrifice is taken away everywhere, which consists in a certain communion of the gods with men. The gods from