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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But this likewise will happen to those who assert that one nature is to
be explored in all the arguments, that they will by no means perceive
how in the three first conclusions, _the one_ remains unseparated from
being, but is first separated in the fourth conclusion. But in all the
following conclusions, _the one_ is explored considered as subsisting
itself by itself. Is it not therefore necessary, that these orders
must differ from each other? For that which is without separation,
in consequence of having an occult and undivided subsistence, is more
allied to _the one_, but that which is separated, has proceeded farther
from the first principle of things.
Again, if you are willing to consider the multitude of the arguments,
and the extent of the hypothesis, how much it differs from that which
follows it,--neither from this will it appear to you to be entirely
about one and an unseparated nature. For reasonings about divine
concerns, are contracted in the more principal causes, because in these
the occult is more abundant than the perspicuous, and the ineffable
than the known. But they become multiplied and evolved, by proceeding
to divine orders more proximate to our nature. For such things as
are more allied to that which is ineffable, unknown, and exempt in
inaccessible places, are allotted an hyparxis more foreign from verbal
enunciation. But such things as have proceeded farther, are both more
known to us, and more apparent to the phantasy, than such as have a
prior subsistence.