[34] "Eth." P. iii. prop. 1, demonstr.
[35] Ibid. Prop. 4.
[36] "Eth." P. i. prop. 7.
[37] Schelling, "Abhandlung von der menschlichen Freiheit."
[38] Irenæus, "Contr. hæres." lib. i. c. 1.
[39] "For they say that in those unseen heights which have no name there is a pre-existing, perfect Æon; this they also call fore-rule, forefather and the depth.—They say, that being incomprehensible and invisible, eternal and unborn, he has existed during endless Æons in the deepest calmness and tranquillity; and that coexisting with him was Thought, which they also call Grace and Silence. This Depth once bethought him to put forth from himself the beginning of all things and to lay that offshoot—which he had resolved to put forth—like a sperm into the coexisting Silence, as it were into a womb. Now this Silence, being thus impregnated and having conceived, gave birth to Intellect, a being which was like and equal to its Creator, and alone able to comprehend the greatness of its father. This Intellect also they call the Only-begotten and the Beginning of all things." [Tr.'s add.]
[40] Compare with this § 44 of his "Theodicée," and his 5th letter to Clarke, § 125.
[41] Doctrine of Reason.
[42] Lambert, "New Organon," vol. i. § 572.
[43] Compare § 36. of this treatise.