Meaning of Necessity in Plato 221 Process of demiurgic construction--The total Kosmos comes logically first, constructed on the model of the [Greek: Au)tozô=on] 223 Body of the Kosmos, perfectly spherical--its rotations 225 Soul of the Kosmos--its component ingredients--stretched from centre to circumference _ib._ Regular or measured Time--began with the Kosmos 227 Divine tenants of the Kosmos. Primary and Visible Gods--Stars and Heavenly Bodies 229 Secondary and generated Gods--Plato's dictum respecting them. His acquiescence in tradition 230 Remarks on Plato's Canon of Belief 231 Address and order of the Demiurgus to the generated Gods 233 Preparations for the construction of man. Conjunction of three souls and one body _ib._ Proceedings of the generated Gods--they fabricate the cranium, as miniature of the Kosmos, with the rational soul rotating within it 235 The cranium is mounted on a tall body--six varieties of motion--organs of sense. Vision--Light 236 Principal advantages of sight and hearing. Observations of the rotation of the Kosmos 237 The Kosmos is product of joint action of Reason and Necessity. The four visible and tangible elements are not primitive 238 Forms or Ideas and Materia Prima--Forms of the Elements--Place, or Receptivity _ib._ Primordial Chaos--Effect of intervention by the Demiurgus 240 Geometrical theory of the elements--fundamental triangles--regular solids _ib._ Varieties of each element 242 Construction of man imposed by the Demiurgus upon the secondary Gods. Triple Soul. Distribution thereof in the body 243 Functions of the heart and lungs. Thoracic soul 245 Abdominal Soul--difficulty of controuling it--functions of the liver _ib._ The liver is made the seat of the prophetic agency. Function of the spleen 246 Length of the intestinal canal, in order that food might not be frequently needed 247 Bone--Flesh--Marrow _ib._ Nails--Mouth--Teeth. Plants produced for nutrition of man 248 General view of Diseases and their Causes 249 Diseases of mind--wickedness is a disease--no man is voluntarily wicked _ib._ Badness of mind arises from body 250 Preservative and healing agencies against disease--well-regulated exercise, of mind and body proportionally 250 Treatment proper for mind alone, apart from body--supremacy of the rational soul must be cultivated 251 We must study and understand the rotations of the Kosmos--this is the way to amend the rotations of the rational soul 252 Construction of women, birds, quadrupeds, fishes, &c., all from the degradation of primitive man _ib._ Large range of topics introduced in the Timæus 254 The Demiurgus of the Platonic Timæus--how conceived by other philosophers of the same century _ib._ Adopted and welcomed by the Alexandrine Jews, as a parallel to the Mosaic Genesis 256