Prologue I.

...imitating the multifaceted yet uniform archetypes of beings, and, to speak concisely, stationed in the vestibules of the primary forms, they reveal the unified, indivisible, and generative existence of those primary realities. 5 However, they do not yet transcend the division and composition of logical logoi rational principles/propositions, nor do they possess the standing appropriate to images, nor have they surpassed the varied and discursive thoughts of the soul, nor have they been harmonized with the simple knowledges that are pure from all matter. 10

Let the intermediate nature of mathematical genera and species be understood in this way, for the present, as filling the gap between the entirely indivisible essences and the divisible things that come to be in matter. 15 But, as we examine the principles of the entire mathematical essence, we ascend to those very principles that extend through all beings and beget everything from themselves: I mean peras limit and apeiron the unlimited/infinite. For from these two, which are primary after the ineffable cause of the One—20 which is inaccessible to all—both all other things and the nature of mathematics have come into being. Those primary causes produce all things at once and transcendentally, while the things that proceed receive this progression in appropriate measures and proper order, with the first, the middle, and the last coming into existence.