The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.

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Title: The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.
Author: Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring :; 1656.
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Subject terms: Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.; Philosophy -- History.
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Sect. XV.

LOve,* 1.1 according to Plato, is Youngest and Oldest of the Gods; They, as all other things, have a two-fold Being, Ideal and Naturall. The first God in his Naturall Being was Love, who dispenc'd theirs to all the rest, the last in his Ideal. Love was born in the Descent of the Ideas into the Angelick Minde, which could not be perfect till they, its Essence, were made so, by loves conversion to God. The Angelick Minde owing its na∣turall being to Love, the other Gods who succeeded this Minde, necessarily are younger then He in their naturall Being, though they precede him in their Ideal, as not born till these Ideas, though imperfectly, were joyn'd to the inform'd Nature.

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Sympos.

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