Thread by @thomasmurphy__

The Book of the Twenty-Four Philosophers is a fascinating anonymous medieval text full of neoplatonic and Pythagorean numerology. It contains 24 "definitions" of God offered up by fictional philosophers. The second definition is the earliest version of the famous "God is an… https://t.co/8cRVsH9I3htwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Liber XXIV philosophorum I:
GOD IS A MONAD THAT GENERATES A MONAD, REFLECTING BACK ON ITSELF IN A SINGLE FLAME.

Liber XXIV philosophorum II:
GOD IS AN INFINITE SPHERE WHOSE CENTRE IS EVERYWHERE AND WHOSE CIRCUMFERENCE IS NOWHERE.

('...for that which has no dimension is as indeterminate as was the beginning of creation.')

Liber XXIV philosophorum III:
GOD IS COMPLETE IN THAT WHICH HE IS

Liber XXIV philosophorum IV:
GOD IS A MIND THAT GENERATES A CONTINUOUSLY SUSTAINED SPEECH

Liber XXIV philosophorum V:
GOD IS THAT THAN WHICH NOTHING SUPERIOR CAN BE CONCEIVED

Liber XXIV philosophorum VI:
IN COMPARISON TO GOD, SUBSTANCE IS ACCIDENTAL, AND THE ACCIDENTAL IS NOTHING.

Liber XXIV philosophorum VII:
GOD IS BEGINNING WITHOUT BEGINNING, PROCESS WITHOUT VARIATION, END WITHOUT END.

Liber XXIV philosophorum VIII:
GOD IS A LOVE THAT IS HIDDEN ALL THE MORE IT IS HELD ONTO

Liber XXIV philosophorum IX:
GOD IS THE ONLY ONE FOR WHOM ALL THAT IS WITHIN TIME IS PRESENT

Liber XXIV philosophorum X:
GOD IS THAT WHOSE POWER CANNOT BE MEASURED, WHOSE BEING IS BOUNDLESS, WHOSE GOODNESS IS UNENDING