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Full Idea
All things that possess or do not possess existence proceed from divinity, and are within divinity.
Gist of Idea
Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity
Source
Porphyry (Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind [c.280], 6Enn5 43)
Book Ref
Porphyry: 'Launching Points to the Realm of the Mind', ed/tr. Guthrie,Kenneth [Phanes 1988], p.65
A Reaction
Nice to see Porphyry endorsing Meinongian objects. I doubt whether he counts as a pantheist, but this is a very pantheistic remark.
| 8152 | Earth, food, fire, sun are all forms of Brahman [Anon (Upan)] |
| 2631 | Antisthenes says there is only one god, which is nature [Antisthenes (I), by Cicero] |
| 20807 | The cosmos and heavens are the substance of god [Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 6038 | Stoics say god is matter, or an inseparable quality of it, or is the power within it [Stoic school, by Chalcidius] |
| 18461 | Everything existing proceeds from divinity, and is within divinity [Porphyry] |
| 7256 | In Utopia, the Supreme Being is identical with Nature [More,T] |
| 12757 | That God is the substance of all things is an ill-reputed doctrine [Leibniz on Spinoza] |
| 17180 | Everything is in God, and nothing exists or is thinkable without God [Spinoza] |
| 17181 | God is the efficient cause of essences, as well as of existences [Spinoza] |
| 4829 | The human mind is part of the infinite intellect of God [Spinoza] |
| 19408 | To say that nature or the one universal substance is God is a pernicious doctrine [Leibniz] |
| 7580 | Pantheism destroys the distinction between good and evil [Kierkegaard] |