The Book of the XXIV Philosophers
Liber XXIV philosophorum

Liber de propositionibus sive de regulis theologiae { Book of propositions or rules of theology }

I.
Deus est monos, monadem ex se gignens, in se unum reflectens ardorem .
{God is the only one, generating unity outside of himself, reflecting upon himself a single burst of fire.}

II.
Deus est sphaera infinita cujus centrum est ubique, circumferentia vero nusquam .
{God is a limitless sphere, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.}

III.
Deus est totus in quilibet sui .
{God is whole at any point of himself.}

IV.
Deus est mens orationem generans, continationem perseverans .
{God is the spirit that generates reason and maintains continuity with it.}

V.
Deus est quo nihil melius excogitari potest .
{God is that of which nothing better can be conceived.}

VI.
Deus est cujus comperatione subtantia accidens est et accidens nihil .
{God is the one in comparison to whom substance is accident and accident is nothing.}

VII.
Deus est primum sine primatu, process sine variatione and finite sine fine .
{God is the first without primacy, the procession without modification and the end without end.}

VIII.
Deus est amor qui plus habitus magis latet .
{God is love which the more we possess, the more it hides.}

IX.
Deus est soli praesens quicquid cujus temporis est .
{God is, for himself alone, the present of everything that belongs to time.}

X.
Deus est cujus posse non numeratur, cujus esse non cauditur, cujus bonitas non terminatur .
{God is he whose power is not numbered, whose being is not closed, whose goodness is not limited.}

XI.
Deus est superens, necesse, solus sibi habundanter, sufficiens .
{God is above being, necessary, alone, to himself in abundance, in sufficiency.}

XII.
Deus est, cuius voluntas deificae potentiae et sapientiae adaequatur .
{God is the one whose will is equal to both divine power and wisdom.}

XIII.
Deus est sempiternitas agens in se, sine divisione et habitu .
{God is in himself active perpetuity, without discontinuity or acquired disposition.}

XIV.
Deus est oppositio nihil mediatione entis .
{God is the opposites of being and non-being as mediation of what is.}

XV.
Deus est vita, cuius via in formam est veritas, in unitatem bonitas .
{God is life whose way to form is unity, and to unity is goodness.}

XVI.
Deus est, quem solum voces non significant propter excellentiam, nec mentes intelligunt propter dissimilitudinem.
{God is what the proper language does not mean because of its excellence, just as spirits do not grasp it because of its dissimilarity.}

XVII.
Deus est intellectus sui, solus praedicationem non recipiens .
{God is intellect of himself, without receiving the property of the predicate.}

XVIII.
Deus est sphaera cujus tot sunt circumferentiae quot puncta .
{God is a sphere that has as many circumferences as points.}

XIX.
Deus est semper movens immobile .
{God is still and always moving.}

XX.
Deus est, qui solus sui intellectu vivit .
{God is the only one who lives by the thought of himself.}

XXI.
Deus est tenebra in anima post omnem lucem relicta.
{God is darkness in the soul, that which remains after all light.}

XXII.
Deus est, ex quo est quicquid est non partitione, per quem est non variatione, in quo est quod est non commixtione .
{God is the one from whom is all that is, without division; thanks to whom this is, without modification; in which is that which is, without composition.}

XXIII.
Deus est, qui verius cognoscitur quid non est, quam quid est .
{God is the one whom the mind learns to know through its ignorance alone.}

XIV.
Deus est, qui sola ignorantia mente cognoscitur .
(Repeat of the previous definition)