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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Since, however, each of the seven bodies has a twofold life, the one
inseparable, but the other separable; and the one indeed intellectual,
and in a ruling manner established in itself, but the other divided
about body, which it connects and moves; according to the latter
indeed, it is an animal, but according to the former a God. Plato,
therefore, distinguishing both these, and rightly conceiving that
a divine and intellectual soul, and which does not depart from
intelligibles, is one thing, but another, the animal which is suspended
from it, possesses life from, and is the image of it says, “that their
bodies became animals through the connecting power of vital bonds,
and that they then learned their prescribed order.” For a divine
soul learns indeed the demiurgic will, understands the works of the
father, and fabricates in conjunction with him mundane natures; and
this, through intellectually perceiving him, and being filled from
him with divine powers. For it is not possible for either intellect
or soul to provide for wholes in an exempt manner, in any other way
than by the participation of deity, and through a deific life. The
words, therefore, “a joint fabrication of time,” manifest that they
are allotted a secondary power in the generation of it; in consequence
of their father possessing a primary power. For he, indeed, generated
the wholeness of time; but these divinities co-operate with him in
the production of the parts of which time consists. For the periods
of these are the parts of the whole of time; just as they also were
generated parts of the world.