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Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Arguments in Proof of the Eternity of the World: Argument the Third

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If a fabricator [or demiurgus] is the fabricator of a certain thing, he will either be always a fabricator in energy, or at a certain time in capacity only, so as not to fabricate eternally. If, therefore, there is a fabricator in energy, who is always a fabricator, that which is fabricated by him will always exist, as being a thing fabricated according to an eternal energy. For Aristotle says, that when the cause exists in energy, the effect will also in a similar manner be in energy; viz.

Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Arguments in Proof of the Eternity of the World: Argument the Third

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