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The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol. 1 of 2) : $b translated from the Greek, to which a seventh book is added, in order to supply the deficiency of another book on this subject, which was written by Proclus, but since lost, also, a translation from the Greek of Proclus' Elements of theology, to which are added a translation of the treatise of Proclus, On providence and fate, a translation of extracts from his treatise, entitled, Ten doubts concerning Proclus

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The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol. 1 of 2) : $b translated from the Greek, to which a seventh book is added, in order to supply the deficiency of another book on this subject, which was written by Proclus, but since lost, also, a translation from the Greek of Proclus' Elements of theology, to which are added a translation of the treatise of Proclus, On providence and fate, a translation of extracts from his treatise, entitled, Ten doubts concerning

Name: The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol. 1 of 2) : $b translated from the Greek, to which a seventh book is added, in order to supply the deficiency of another book on this subject, which was written by Proclus, but since lost, also, a translation from the Greek of Proclus' Elements of theology, to which are added a translation of the treatise of Proclus, On providence and fate, a translation of extracts from his treatise, entitled, Ten doubts concerning
Author: Proclus

Proclus

Neoplatonism -- Early works to 1800; Plato -- Early works to 1800; Theology -- Early works to 1800

How many the particulars are which ought to be demonstrated
    previous to the discovery of the multitude of the divine orders,
    and an uninterrupted narration of the doctrine of these.

                              CHAPTER IV.

    That all the unities are participable. And that there is only one
    _truly_ superessential one; but that all the other unities are
    participated by essences.[72]

                              CHAPTER V.

    That the participations of the unities which are nearer to _the
    one_, proceed into more simple hypostases; but the participations
    of those that are remote from the one, proceed into more composite
    hypostases.

                              CHAPTER VI.

    What the natures are which participate of the divine unities, and
    what the order of them is with respect to each other. And that
    being indeed, is the most ancient of these; life, the second;
    intellect, the third; soul, the fourth; and body, the last. And
    that there are also as many orders of the divine unities.[73]

                             CHAPTER VII.

    A resumption of the doctrine concerning _the one_, and a
    discussion of the biformed principles posterior to _the one_.

                             CHAPTER VIII.

    What the two principles are of all things posterior to _the one_;
    how Socrates the Philebus calls them bound and infinity; and of
    what things they are the causes[74] to beings.[75]

                              CHAPTER IX.

    What the third thing is which is produced from the two principles.
    Why Socrates in the Philebus calls it that which is mixed. That it
    is nothing else than that which is primarily being.[76] And how
    this proceeds from the two principles, and from _the one_.

                              CHAPTER X.

    How from images also, it may be inferred, that the first thing
    which subsists from bound and infinity is being. How this may be
    demonstrated. And how bound and infinity are twofold; one order
    of these subsisting in being, but the other existing prior to
    being.[77]

                              CHAPTER XI.

    What the triad is, which Socrates in the Philebus says is inherent
    in every thing that is mixed.[78]

                             CHAPTER XII.

    Concerning the first intelligible triad in common; and how the
    second triad proceeds analogous to this.[79]

                             CHAPTER XIII.

    What the second intelligible triad is. A more accurate account of
    it, as subsisting from that which predominates, from that which is
    participated, and from that which characterizes the mixture.

                             CHAPTER XIV.

    What the third intelligible triad is; what that is which
    predominates, and is participated in this. And at the end, a
    discourse in common concerning the distinction of the three triads.

                              CHAPTER XV.

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