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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
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and symmetry to each other.
Animal itself, therefore, may with the greatest justice, be called most
beautiful, so far as it is eminently contained in intelligible beauty.
For beauty is wont to be carried in forms, and is as it were the form
of forms, unfolding that which is occult in _the good_, causing its
loveliness to shine forth, and attracting to its own splendor the
desire which is concealed about it. And to _the good_ indeed, all
things possess a silent and arcane tendency; but we are excited to the
beautiful with astonishment and motion. For the illumination from it,
and its efficacy, acutely pervade through every soul, and as being the
most similar of all things to _the good_, it converts every soul that
surveys it. The soul also, beholding that which is arcane shining forth
as it were to the view, rejoices in, and admires that which it sees,
and is astonished about it. And as in the most holy of the mysteries,
prior to the mystic spectacles, those that are initiated, are seized
with astonishment, so in intelligibles prior to the participation of
_the good_, beauty shining forth, astonishes those that behold it,
converts the soul to itself, and being established in the vestibules
[of _the good_] shows what that is which is in the adyta, and what the
transcendency is of occult good. Through these things therefore, let it
be apparent whence beauty originates, and how it first shines forth;
and also that animal itself is the most beautiful of all intelligibles.
CHAPTER XIX.