The Necessity of Intermediary Beings Between Unity and Multiplicity
The First Author is pure unity—uncaused, unchanging, infinite. Corporeal substance is composite, temporal, finite. Between them lies an unbridgeable metaphysical gap.
> Intermediary substances must exist.
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Where there is absolute difference, a mean is required. If the beginning and end of being were identical, there would be no difference. But they are distinct. Hence, mediation is metaphysically necessary.
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The soul and body are not conjoined directly; spirit stands between. So too must there be intermediaries between divine unity and material multiplicity.
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The First Author is uncomposed. Corporeal substance is the greatest multiplicity. Every compound presupposes simple elements. The composite is posterior; the simple must precede.
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Each lower unity arises from a higher. The multitude in the world descends from unity step by step. The First cannot act on the last directly without collapsing unity into dispersion.
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To deny intermediary beings is to assert that the First Author is simultaneously the author and not the author—an impossibility. Contradiction is not a ground of being.
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Therefore, between the First Author and the substance that supports the nine categories, intermediary beings must exist—pure, simple, spiritual substances that bridge causality, being, and motion.
Continued in part II
Note: the intermediary beings ARE NOT the pagan gods, or any god.
Form, Motion, and the Soul: Why the Body Cannot Receive Directly
Whatever receives form must be proportionate to its giver. Corporeal substance is unequal in its parts. Its reception is partial and divided. Therefore, it cannot receive form directly from the infinite.