This characteristic property therefore, which unites and binds together the natures that fill and the natures that are filled, according to all the orders of the Gods, must be arranged as originating supernally and proceeding as far as to the last of things. To us however discussing what pertains to every divine nature, what we assert will be known from those commonly received truths adduced in the Phaedrus, and which we have before mentioned.

Ταύτην τοίνυν τὴν ἑνοποιὸν καὶ συνδετικὴν τῶν πληρούντων τε καὶ πληρουμένων ἰδιότητα κατὰ πάσας τῶν θεῶν τὰς διακοσμήσεις τακτέον ἄνωθεν ἄχρι τῶν ἐσχάτων. Ἔσται δὲ ἡμῖν γνώριμον ὃ λέγομεν͵ πρότερον περὶ τῶν ἐν Φαίδρῳ γεγραμμένων κοινῶν ὁμολογημάτων περὶ παντὸς τοῦ θείου τὸν λόγον ποιησαμένοις.