For Addey, the value of astrology was as a way of seeing the great order of time as expressive of eternal forms and numbers.

Analogous things, he writes, can be said of intelligible objects (i.e., the fixed and eternal forms that are the ultimate objects of scientific and philosophical study):

But when he is done he will not be nothing, not as though he had never been; for he is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things.

Man himself in his degree is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things.

For example, Aristotle's argues that changeless, eternal substantial form is necessarily immaterial.

The things of this world only echo, 'participate in' or 'imitate' the eternal forms in the divine realm.

In his eternal form, he is portrayed as a blacksmith, working in his forge in Golgonooza.

In the Physics Aristotle rejected Plato's assumption that the universe was created by an intelligent designer using eternal forms as his model.

"Intelligences" are eternal forms of energy or matter existing in a less progressed form than God.

He calls his universe without time and only relative positions 'Platonia' after Plato's world of eternal forms.