Part 1
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From the fact that it is natural for every living thing, by its own better natural energy, to partake also of rest and of a corresponding pleasure, and to rejoice in this, and to be attached to these things because of them. So too man, inasmuch as he possesses nous, and since thinking is by nature life to him, takes the greatest delight, and comes to share in the rest that arises, whenever he thinks upon the better things, and upon those things concerning himself which one may wish to call either good or beautiful. This truly happens when he holds God in his nous, and reckons upon His virtues, which are of the highest degree and an object of nous beyond nous itself, and reckons that God loves to the utmost, and loves man beyond nous, and prepares for His own the highest rewards, and goods and beauties beyond nous — and this above all, eternally.