[155] For that which is properly eternal, is perfectly stable, and is never subject to mutation.

[156] In Proposition CLXXXIV. And from hence it appears, that by particular souls in this Proposition, are meant such as are capable of being changed from the possession of intellect, into its privation.

[157] The reader must observe that these vehicles or divine bodies, the first participants of their correspondent souls, are no other than those vehicles, so beautifully described by Synesius, and inserted in the preceding history of Theology.

[158] For a demonstration of the truth of this sentence, see the note to page 59, vol. I. of this work.

[159] Instead of ὣστε καὶ ἡ μεῥικὴ ψυχὴ, καὶ το αἴτιον. κ. τ. λ.--I read, ῶστε τὸ αἴτιον της μεῤικὴς ψυχὴς, καὶ ἄρα. κ. τ. λ.

[160] χειρόνων is erroneously printed in the Greek, instead of χειτᾶνων.

[161] That part of this proposition, within the crotchets, is neither in the Greek which is here defective, nor in the translation of Patricius, but is added from my own conjecture; whether or not with propriety, the reader must determine.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.

2. Where appropriate, the original spelling has been retained.

3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.

4. Italics are shown as _xxx_.