Sive igitur famulantibus quibusdam providentiae divinis spiritibus fatum exercetur seu anima seu tota inserviente natura seu caelestibus siderum motibus seu angelica virtute seu daemonum varia  sollertia seu aliquibus horum seu omnibus fatalis series texitur, illud certe manifestum est immobilem simplicemque gerendarum formam rerum esse providentiam, fatum vero eorum quae divina simplicitas gerenda disposuit mobilem nexum atque ordinem  temporalem.
Now whether fate works by certain divine spirits acting as servants of providence, or whether the course of fate is woven by the service of the soul or of the whole of nature, or by the celestial motions of the stars, or by angelic power or demons ingenuity, or by any or all of these, this surely is clear, that the unmoving and simple form of the way things are done is providence, and fate is the movable interlacing and temporal ordering of those things which the divine simplicity has disposed to be done.
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