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Vii, lo. on the Heavenly Hierarchy. 55 same, as from images, to the simplicity of the Heavenly Minds. But let this first be made plain to you, that the explanations of the sacredly de- picted likenesses represent the same ranks of the Heavenly. Beings as sometimes ruling, and, at other times, as being ruled ; and the last, ruling, and the first, being ruled ; and the same, as has been said, having first, and middle, and last powers — without introducing anything absurd into the de- scription, a...ccording to the following method of explanation. For if indeed we were to say that some are ruled by those above them, and then that they rule the same, and that those above, whilst ruling those below, are ruled by those same who are being ruled, the thing would manifestly be absurd, and mixed with all sorts of confusion. But if we say that the same rule and are ruled, but no longer the self-same, or from the self-same, but that each same is ruled by those before, and rules those below, one might say appropriately that the Divinely pictured presentations in the Oracles may sometimes attribute, properly and truly, the very same, both to first, and middle, and last powers.
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