The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol. 2 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 p — Plato — John Shaqi
The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol. 2 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 p
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to the intellectual orders, is allotted the assimilative peculiarity,
and being defined according to this, conjoins all things to the
demiurgic monad; and [we have also shown] how it proceeds from the
intelligible paradigm to all mundane natures, and is the primary origin
of their generation.
CHAPTER IV.
Again, it follows in addition to what has been said, that we should
separate all the assimilative powers, properly arrange them, and survey
them proceeding about the one essence of the Gods. Plato, therefore,
asserts that the first and most ruling of these powers, are those
that unfold the intellectual production of the father, and expand it
to all the divided orders of beings. But that the second, are those
which are connective of wholes, and which preserve one series and
indissoluble connexion of the divine progressions. And that the third,
are those which are the primary leaders of perfection to all secondary
natures, and produce through similitude self-perfect conversions to
principles. But next to these he arranges those powers that extend
all the proceeding genera of the Gods to impartible monads, and which
pre-exist as the collectors of partible natures. Farther still, he
likewise asserts that other assimilative powers give subsistence to
the divided genera, and are definitely the suppliers of existence and
essence to first and last natures. And besides all these, that other
powers are the causes of undefiled distribution, and of perpetually
stable perfection.