Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily VI/Chapter 25

Chapter XXV.&#8212;The Universe is the Product of Mind.

&#8220;Thus we are shut up to the supposition that there is an unbegotten artificer, who brought the elements together, if they were separate; or, if they were together, artistically blended them so as to generate life, and perfected from all one work.&#160; For it cannot be that a work which is completely wise can be made without a mind which is greater than it.&#160; Nor will it do to say that love is the artificer of all things, or desire, or power, or any such thing.&#160; All these are liable to change, and transient in their very nature.&#160; Nor can that be God which is moved by another, much less what is altered by time and nature, and can be annihilated.&#8221;