Before particular roses there is the intelligible pattern of Rose.
Before individual circles, number, form, justice, beauty, kingship, fatherhood, etc., there are archetypal possibilities.
- Platonic Forms;
- divine Ideas in Christian Platonism;
- Sephirotic archetypes;
- Logos;
- Adam Kadmon;
- celestial patterns;
Every idea or form of any thing first began in the mind of God as an idea