Cause Principle Unity

TEOFILO. Then, goodbye.
Fifth dialogue
End of the fourth dialogue
Fifth Dialogue
TEOFILO. The universe is, therefore, one, infinite and immobile. I say that
the absolute possibility is one, that the act is one; the form, or soul, is one,
the matter, or body, is one, the thing is one, being is one. The maximum,
and the optimum, is one: it cannot be comprehended and is therefore indeterminable
and not limitable, and hence infinite and limitless, and consequently
immobile. It has no local movement since there is nothing outside
of it to which it can be moved, given that it is the whole. It does not engender
itself because there is no other being that it could anticipate or desire,
since it possesses all being. It is not corrupted because there is no other
thing into which it could change itself, given that it is everything. It cannot
diminish or grow because it is an infinity to or from which nothing can be
added or subtracted, since the infinite has no measurable parts. It is not
alterable in terms of disposition, since it possesses no outside to which it
might be subject and by which it might be affected. Moreover, since it comprehends
all contraries in its being in unity and harmony, and since it can
have no propensity for another and new being, or even for one manner of
being and then for another, it cannot be subject to change according to any
quality whatsoever, nor can it admit any contrary or different thing that can
alter it, because in it everything is concordant. It is not matter, because it is
not configured or configurable, nor it is limited or limitable. It is not form,
because it neither informs nor figures anything else, given that it is all, that
it is maximum, that it is one, that it is universal. It is neither measurable
nor a measure. It does not contain itself, since it is not greater than itself. It
is not contained, since it is not less than itself. It is not equal to itself,
because it is not one thing and another, but one and the same thing. Being
one and the same, it does not have distinct beings; because it does not have
distinct beings, it has no distinct parts; because it has no distinct parts, it is
not composite. It is limit such that it is not limit, form such that it is not
form, matter such that it is not matter, soul such that it is not soul: for it is
all indifferently, and hence is one; the universe is one.
Indeed, in this one, the height is no greater than the length or depth, so
that it is called a sphere by analogy, although it is not a sphere. Length,
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