degeneracy nor ignorance in order that he who would become man might know him. On the contrary, he predetermined in himself all things in advance according to his nature, which to us is ineffable and inscrutable, and he made them as he willed, bestowing on all things their form10 and order, and the principle of their creation—giving to spiritual beings a spiritual and invisible substance; to supercelestial, a supercelestial;11 to Angels, an angelic; to animals, an animal; to swimming creatures,