Socrates therefore says that every thing divine is beautiful, wise, and good and he indicates that this triad pervades to all the progressions of the Gods. What therefore is the goodness, what the wisdom, and what the beauty of the Gods? With respect to the goodness of the Gods therefore, we have before observed, that it preserves and gives subsistence to the whole of things, that it every where exists as the summit, as that which fills subordinate natures, and as pre-existing in every order analogous to the first principle of the divine orders. For according to this all the Gods are conjoined with the one cause of all things, and on account of this primarily derive their subsistence as Gods. For in all beings there is not any thing more perfect than the good, and the Gods. To the most excellent of beings therefore, and which are in every respect perfect, the best and most perfect of things is adapted.

Λέγει τοίνυν ὁ Σωκράτης ὡς ἄρα πᾶν ἐστὶ τὸ θεῖον καλόν͵ σοφόν͵ ἀγαθόν͵ καὶ τὴν τριάδα ταύτην διήκειν ἐπὶ πάσας ἐνδείκνυται τὰς τῶν θεῶν προόδους. Τί οὖν ἂν εἴη τὸ ἀγαθὸν τὸ τῶν θεῶν καὶ τίς ἡ σοφία καὶ τί τὸ κάλλος; Τὸ μὲν ἀγαθὸν καὶ πρότερον εἴπομεν ὅτι σωστικόν ἐστι τῶν ὅλων καὶ ὑποστατικόν͵ καὶ ὡς ἀκρότατον ὑφέστηκε πανταχοῦ καὶ ὡς πληρωτικόν ἐστι τῶν ὑφειμένων καὶ ὡς ἀνάλογον ἐν ἑκάστῃ τάξει προϋπάρχει τῇ πρωτίστῃ τῶν θείων διακόσμων ἀρχῇ. Κατὰ γὰρ τοῦτο πάντες οἱ θεοὶ τῇ μιᾷ τῶν ὅλων αἰτίᾳ συνήνωνται καὶ τὸ εἶναι θεοὶ κατὰ τοῦτο πρώτως ἔχουσιν· οὔτε γὰρ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ τελεώτερον ἅπασι τοῖς οὖσιν οὔτε τῶν θεῶν. Τοῖς οὖν ἀρίστοις καὶ κατὰ πάντα τελείοις τὸ ἄριστον μάλα προσήκει καὶ τελικώτατον τῶν ὄντων. 

Cf. PLATO : Wisdom, Birth in good and beauty ||| ORIGEN : You will find a divine perception ||| PLOTINUS : The soul's movement will be about its source ||| DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE : All-comprehending Smallness and Super-essential Identity