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Periphyseon

On the Division of Nature

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Eriugena's vast dialogue dividing all reality into a single Nature in four aspects: God as uncreated creator, the eternal causes, the created world, and God again as the end to which all things return. A Neoplatonic system of astonishing boldness, written in an age that could barely read its sources.

It is not therefore wonderful if, the divine reasons concerning natures being unknown, the Creator of all natures is unknown not only by us but also by Himself. For He Himself does not know what He is, because He is not any what; in something, He is incomprehensible both to Himself and to every intellect.

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