Kratylos Şerhi: Tanrıların Adları

Of names, then, some are instruments of the gods reaching even as far as souls; others are of partial souls capable of crafting them through intellect and science; and others subsist through the intermediate kinds. For even demons and those placed under the command of angels were taught by them names more fitting to things than those they themselves established. And one must recognize their differences given by the productive causes and refer everything back to the one Demiurge, the intellectual god. Whence also the name has a twofold power: the one didactic of notions and the cause of communication, and the other discriminative of essence. Since the Demiurge has a twofold power, both as a maker of sameness and a maker of difference, the assimilative activity of the demiurgic intellect is twofold: one according to which he constitutes the whole world while looking toward the intelligible paradigm, the other according to which he gives appellations appropriate names for each thing. The Timaeus indicated briefly concerning these, but the theurgists teach more clearly, as do the oracles from the gods themselves: "holy names, leaping with tireless vibration into the worlds by the paternal command."