living creature truly endowed with soul and intelligence.”89 (6) There is one world.90 (7) This world is an image of the eternal gods. When the father and creator saw the creature which he had made moving and living, the created image of the eternal gods, he rejoiced, and in his joy determined to make the copy still more like the original, and as this was an eternal living being, he sought to make the universe eternal, so far as might be. Now the nature of the ideal being was everlasting, but to
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