APPARENT IMPERFECTIONS ARE ONLY LOWER FORMS OF PERFECTION.
10. But how can there be anything imperfect in the intelligible world? Why does the intelligible Animal have horns? Is it for its defense?[89] To be perfect and complete. It is to be perfect as an animal, perfect as intelligence, and perfect as life; so that, if it lack one quality, it may have a substitute. The cause of the differences, is that what belongs to one being finds itself replaced in another being by something else; so that the totality (of the beings) may result in the most perfect Life, and Intelligence, while all the particular beings which are thus found in the intelligible essence are perfect so far as they are particular.