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Single Idea 466

[catalogued under 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature]

Full Idea

God is mind, holy and ineffable, and only mind, which darts through the whole cosmos with its swift thought.

Gist of Idea

God is pure mind permeating the universe

Source

Empedocles (fragments/reports [c.453 BCE], B134), quoted by Ammonius - On 'De Interpretatione' 4.5.249.6

Book Reference

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.67