ABSTRACT
A preexistent, perfect eternity—uncontained, invisible, everlasting, and ingenerate-"thought to emit from himself a source of all things and to place the emission which it had thought to emit like sperm, in the womb of Silence who coexisted with it. When the latter received this sperm, she became pregnant and bore Mind, like and equal to the emitter and alone containing the greatness of its parent. This Mind they also call Only-begotten, Father, and Source of all things". When Arius was alone, not to create division or diminution of his Godhead but to show forth his goodness and power, by his sole will and power, impassibly impassible, imperishably imperishable, and immovably unmoved he created and begot, made and established the only-begotten God. Within the Greek religious tradition, the Olympian gods appear among humans as mortals to help or hinder.
