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
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Moreover, _the one_ likewise generates the second intellectual order,
being unmingled with it. For _the one_ neither stands still, nor
is moved. It participates therefore of neither of these; but being
similarly exempt from both, it at the same time transcends the middle
orders of the intellectual progression of the Gods. For if it were
moved, it would be moved in a twofold respect, viz. either according
to a change in quality, or local motion. But it is not possible that
_the one_ can be changed in quality; for being thus changed it will
be not one, and will fall off from a unical hyparxis. Nor can it be
locally moved. For it is impossible that it should be moved in a
circle, because it would have parts, viz. middle and extremes. And if
it changed one place for another it would be partible. For it would
be necessary that it should neither be wholly in that place to which
it is moved, nor in that whence it begins to be moved. For if it were
wholly in either of them, it would be immoveable, in consequence of
partly not yet being moved, and partly having now ceased its motion.
But if _the one_ stands still, it is certainly necessary that it should
abide in the same thing. But it has been demonstrated that _the one_
is no where. Hence it is neither in itself, nor in another thing. In
no respect therefore is _the one_ moved, or does it stand still, which
things [viz. motion and permanency] particularly belong to the middle
order of intellectuals, as will be evident from the second hypothesis.
For the first God produces this order also, being exempt from it.