Further the divine effulgence and energy, being one and simple and indivisible, assuming many varied forms in its goodness among what is divisible and allotting to each the component parts of its own nature, still remains simple and is multiplied without division among the divided, and gathers and converts the divided into its own simplicity Dionys., De div. nom., c. 5.. For all things long after it and have their existence in it. It gives also to all things being according to their several natures Text, καθὼς ἔχει φύσεως: in the margin of the manuscript is ὡς ἔχουσι., and it is itself the being of existing things, the life of living things, the reason of rational beings, the thought of thinking beings. But it is itself above mind and reason and life and essence.