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
Proclus
Neoplatonism -- Early works to 1800; Plato -- Early works to 1800; Theology -- Early works to 1800
Many and clearer demonstrations that the great leader Jupiter, and
all the dodecad of leaders, are liberated.
CHAPTER XX.
An explanation from precedaneous causes whence the number of the
dodecad in the liberated Gods is derived.
CHAPTER XXI.
What the division of the liberated leaders is into two monads and
one decad. And what the one division of them is.
CHAPTER XXII.
The theology concerning each of the twelve Gods, unfolding the
peculiarities of them from the subjects of their government.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Concerning the mother of the Fates mentioned in the Republic.
Likewise concerning the triad of the Fates. What orders they have
with reference to each other. What powers of them are delivered
through divine symbols. What their energies are. And how Plato
characterizes the liberated peculiarity.
CHAPTER XXIV.
How Parmenides forms his conclusions concerning the liberated Gods
immediately after the assimilative Gods. And how he characterizes
the order of them by _touching_ and _not touching_.
CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK VII.
CHAPTER I.
On the mundane Gods in general,--the source of their
progression,--their orders, powers, and spheres.
CHAPTER II.
On the division, and allotments of the mundane Gods.
CHAPTER III.
That the mundane do not differ from the supermundane Gods in
habitudes to bodies, &c.--That the providence of the Gods is not
circumscribed by place.--That it pervades all things, and like the
light of the sun, fills whatever is capable of receiving it.
CHAPTER IV.
After what manner the visible celestial orbs are Gods.--That a
celestial body is eminently allied to the incorporeal essence of
the Gods.--That the visible are connected with the intelligible
Gods.--And that the perfectly incorporeal are united to the
sensible Gods, through the essence of each being characterized by
_the one_.
CHAPTER V.
The nature of the mundane Gods unfolded from the speech of the
Demiurgus to them, in the Timæus.--And what the whole conception
of the speech is according to Proclus.
CHAPTER VI.
What the demiurgus effects in the multitude of mundane Gods by
the first words of his speech.--That the words of the Demiurgus
are addressed to the composite from soul and animal, viz. to the
animal which is divine and partakes of a soul.--The meaning of the
words, “Of whom I am the demiurgus and father,” &c.
CHAPTER VII.
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