The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 32: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 9 mortal. For nothing else is the cause of immor- tality to the gods, and the apparent world, than their being generated by the Demiurgus. What then does he say? That whatever is immortal in these, is necessarily imparted by the Demiurgus : but this is the rational soul. Of this, therefore, I myself will deliver to you, being willing, the seed and beginning: it is your business to accom- plish the rest, and to weave together the mortal and immortal nature. It is evident, therefore, that the demiurgic gods receiving from their father a demiurgic power, produced mortal animals on the earth. For if the heaven ought to differ in no respect from man, nor, by Jupiter, from wild beasts, or serpents, and fishes swimming in the sea; . it is necessary that there should be one and the same Demiurgus of all things. But if there is an abundant medium between immortal and mortal natures, which cannot be greater by any addition nor diminished by any ablation with re- ference to mortal and perishable natures, it is fit that the causes of the one should be different from the causes of the other. What occasion, however, have I here to call COI G OO) SS (CO