Divine Mind Quotes

“The Intelligible World within the Divine Mind Compared to a Blueprint within the Architect’s Mind

For God, being God, judged in advance that a beautiful copy would never be produced except from a beautiful pattern and that no sense object would be irreproachable that was not modeled after an archetypal and intelligible idea. So when he willed to create this visible world, he first formed the intelligible world, so that he might employ a pattern completely Godlike and incorporeal for the production of the corporeal world, a more recent image of one that was older, which was to comprise as many sensible kinds as there were intelligible ones in the other.”
― Philo of Alexandria

“According to Plato (428/427 or 424/423—348 BC), God is a perfect Being, eternal itself, shaping the universe through eternal forms (eide [form: eidos]). The imperfections in the world result from the material nature of the universe.

According to Aristotle (384—322 BC), God is an unmoved mover, a primary cause, and a possessor of a divine mind (nous).”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“According to Plotinus (c. 204/5—270 CE), God is Intelligence or Mind (Nous), and the world is created out of God (ex deo) and not from nothing (ex nihilo). “The power of the One is to provide a foundation (arkhe) and location (topos) for all existents. The foundation provided by the One is intelligence. The location in which the cosmos takes objective shape and determinate, physical, form is the soul.” … “The being of intelligence is thought, and the thought of intelligence is Being.” … “No idea is different from intelligence but is itself intelligence.” Plotinus accepted the Stoic’s idea of logoi spermatikoi; for him, logoi spermatikoi is a bridge between the soul and the material.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE