Iamblichus argues that to “concede” The existence of the Gods, as if they were the result of a persuasive proof or dialectical demonstration is already to misunderstanding the modes of cognition and kinds of knowable existences. The Gods are known μονοειδως because they are not subject to contraries and are therefore not mappable on the normal tables and categories. They are prior to all those modes of being and that BY WHICH those modes are made manifest. The light itself is not a discrete object which can be illuminated. In fact, not only the gods but the human soul is, in its own way, beyond the simple dynamic of ποιείν/πασχειν.