Proposition Xxxi.
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Proclus and Taylor, Thomas
PROPOSITION XXXI.
Every thing which proceeds from a certain thing essentially, is converted to that from which it proceeds.
For if it should proceed indeed, but should not return to the cause of this progression, it would not aspire after its cause. For every thing which desires is converted to the object of its desire. Moreover, every thing aspires after good, and to each thing the attainment of it is through the proximate cause. Every thing, therefore, aspires after its cause. For well-being is derived to every thing from that through which its existence is derived. But appetite is first directed to that through which well-being is derived. And conversion is to that to which appetite is first directed.