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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Of the whole of this truly golden chain therefore, the summit is
indeed the genus of the intelligible Gods, but the end is that of the
sublunary deities, who govern[134] generation in an unbegotten, and
nature in a supernatural manner, to which the demiurgic intellect
now gives subsistence; the dominion of the Gods extending supernally
from the heavens, as far as to the last of things. Of these sublunary
deities however, it is necessary to observe in the first place, that
all of them preserve the generative and perfective energy of their
generating cause, and also his demiurgic and stable productive power.
They likewise receive measures, boundaries, and order from their
father. And such things as he governs exemptly and totally, they being
divided according to allotments, fabricate, generate, and perfect. Some
of them also are proximate to the celestial Gods; but others proceed
to a greater distance from them. Hence, some preserve the idea of
these Gods, so far as it can be preserved in the sublunary order; but
others are established according to their appropriate power. For of
every order, the summit is analogous to the order prior to it. Thus the
summit of intelligibles is unity; of intellectuals is intelligible;
of the supermundane order, is intellectual; and of the mundane order,
supermundane. And some of the sublunary Gods indeed, are in a greater
degree united to the demiurgic monad; but others are more distant
from it. Hence, some being analogous to it, are the leaders of the
whole of this series; but others have a more partial similitude to
it. For the father established in every order powers analogous to him
in their arrangement; since in all the divine orders a certain cause
pre-subsists analogous to _the good_.