Bir ile Sınırsız Dyad: Aynılık ve Başkalığın Kaynağı

Having descended into the realm of becoming, the nature of the "One-Who-is-All-Good" has shared the qualities of sameness, equality, and similarity with all existing things. However, the "Infinitely Powerful Dyad"—which is the most generative and inexhaustible cause of all things—has provided otherness, dissimilarity, inequality, as well as oppositions, the "before and after," and all such things to both invisible substances and those perceived by the senses. This is so that no nature exists as a gap between the indivisible and the divisible, and so that no sensible creation is ever completed without being adorned by these forms. And for this reason, Plato, in his Sophist, when investigating the "kinds of being" that permeate all things, enumerated them as: Sameness, Otherness, Substance, Rest, Motion. Furthermore, he revealed the nature of "non-being," which carries with it the single cause of every difference, every antithesis, and every opposition.