Timaios Şerhi: Evren Ruhu

"Placing also soul in the middle, he extended it through the whole of the world, and besides this, he externally circumvested the body of the universe with soul." Divinity produces all things at once, and eternally. For by his very being, and according to an eternal intelligence of wholes, he generates all things from himself, supermundane, and all mundane beings, intellects, souls, natures, bodies, and matter itself. And indeed, the at-once-collected subsists in a greater degree in the demiurgic production of things, than in the solar illumination; though in this the whole light proceeds at once and the same time from the sun. But the sun who imitates his father through the visible fabrication, evidently yields to an eternal and invisible production. As we have said therefore, all things being produced at once and eternally from the fabrication of the Demiurgus, the order of the effects is at the same time preserved. For in the producing cause there was an eternal intelligence and order prior to the things that are arranged. Whence though all things are at once from one cause, yet some have the first, but others a subordinate dignity. And some indeed, are co-arranged with the Demiurgus according to union, others according to contact, and others according to participation.