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This intellect, therefore, comprehending in the depths of its essence an ideal world, replete with all various forms, excludes privation of cause and casual subsistence, from its energy. But as it imparts every good and all possible beauty to its fabrications, it converts the universe to itself, and renders it similar to its own omniform nature.
Similarly he is thereupon told by the other Rishis that they meditate only on sun, air, ether, and earth, and informs them in return that the special names of these beings are 'the omniform, 'he who moves in various ways, 'the full one,''wealth and 'firm rest, and that these all are mere members of the Vaisvanara Self, viz. its eyes, breath, trunk, bladder, and feet.
... Thou primordial Sea, the awfulness of whose antiquity hath stricken all mythology dumb; thou most wrinkled diving Sea, the millions of whose years outnumber even the multitude of thy hoary motions; thou omniform and most mysterious Sea, mother of the monsters and the gods, whence shine eternal youth?
From this intelligible world, replete with omniform ideas, this sensible world, according to Plato, perpetually flows, depending on its artificer intellect, in the same manner as shadow on its forming substance.
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