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
Philosophy
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
The nature of Minerva unfolded from the Commentaries of Proclus
on the Timæus.--The spear and shield with which this Goddess,
in the statues of her, is represented as armed, explained from
Iamblichus.--And observations respecting the mundane allotment of
this Goddess.
CHAPTER XXII.
The nature of the great mundane divinity, the earth, unfolded from
Proclus on the Timæus of Plato.
CHAPTER XXIII.
The manner in which the earth is said to be the most ancient, and
the first of the Gods within the heavens, explained.
CHAPTER XXIV.
On the essence of the sublunary deities.--What Plato says of them
in the Timæus unfolded.
CHAPTER XXV.
Where the sublunary Gods are to be arranged.--And the meaning of
the subsequent words of Plato developed.
CHAPTER XXVI.
The nature of the sublunary Gods more fully unfolded.--On the
dæmoniacal order.--And that about each of the fabricators of
generation, there is a coordinate angelical, dæmoniacal, and
heroical multitude, which retains the appellation of its producing
monad.
CHAPTER XXVII.
What Pythagoras says in the _Sacred Discourse_.--What the Orphic
traditions are concerning Phanes, Night, Heaven, Saturn, Jupiter,
and Bacchus.--That Plato begins the Theogony of the sublunary Gods
from Heaven and Earth, and not from Phanes and Night.--And why he
does so.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
On the two principles Heaven and Earth.--What each of them is; and
particularly concerning the power of Heaven.
CHAPTER XXIX.
The whole theory of Earth unfolded.--And also the theory of Ocean
and Tethys.--That the causes of these are in the intellectual
Gods, and likewise in the sensible universe.
CHAPTER XXX.
The theory of Phorcys, Saturn, and Rhea, unfolded.
CHAPTER XXXI.
The nature of the sublunary Jupiter and Juno unfolded.--And why
Plato comprehends in this ennead, viz. Heaven and Earth, Ocean and
Tethys, Phorcys, Saturn, Rhea, Jupiter, and Juno, the Gods who are
the fabricators of generation.
CHAPTER XXXII.
Why Plato denominates the sublunary deities, “such as become
apparent when they please.”--General observations respecting the
Gods that govern generation.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
On the summit, or monad of all the mundane Gods, Bacchus.--And on
the mundane soul which is the immediate participant of the Bacchic
intellect.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
How the mundane Gods are characterized in the Parmenides of Plato.
CHAPTER XXXV.
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