That the Pre-Eminent Cause of Every Object of Sensible Perception is None of the Objects of Sensible Perception.
SECTION I.

WE say then- that the Cause of all, which is above all, is neither without being, nor without life -- nor with- out reason, nor without mind, nor is a body -- nor has shape -- nor form -- nor quality, or quantity, or bulk -- nor is in a place -- nor is seen -- nor has sensible contact -- nor perceives, nor is perceived, by the senses -- nor has disorder and confusion, as being vexed by earthly passions, -- nor is powerless, as being subject to casualties of sense, -- nor is in need of light; -- neither is It, nor has It, change, or decay, or division, or deprivation, or flux, -- or any other of the objects of sense.

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