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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We, however, consequently[156] to what has been before asserted, say,
that according to Plato there are many orders of Jupiter. For one is
the demiurgus, as it is written in the Cratylus; another, is the first
of the Saturnian triad, as it is asserted in the Gorgias; another is
the liberated, as it is delivered in the Phædrus; and another is the
celestial, whether in the inerratic sphere, or among the planets.
Moreover, as the first Jupiter produced into the visible fabrication
the power of his father, which was concealed in the unapparent, being
excited[157] to this by his mother Rhea; after the same manner the
Jupiter delivered here, who is the fabricator of generation, causes the
unapparent divisions and separations of forms made by Saturn to become
apparent; but Rhea calls them forth, into motion and generation; and
Phorcys inserts them in matter, produces sensible natures, and adorns
the visible essence, in order that there may not only be divisions of
productive principles in natures and in souls, and in intellectual
essences prior to these, but likewise in sensibles. For this is the
peculiarity of fabrication. And if it be requisite to speak what
appears to me to be the truth, Saturn indeed produces intellectual
sections, but Rhea such as are psychical, and Phorcys such as are
physical. For all spermatic productive principles are under nature.
But Jupiter adorning sensible and visible sections, gives a specific
distinction to such beings in the sublunary region as are totally
vital, and causes them to be moved. Since, however, these sensible
forms which are generated and perfected, are multiformly evolved,
being moved and changed according to all-various evolutions, on this
account, the queen Juno is conjoined with Jupiter, giving perfection to
this motion of visible natures, and to the evolution of forms. Hence
fables represent her as at one time sending mania to certain persons,
but ordering others to undergo severe labours, in order that through
intellect being present with all things, and partial souls energizing
divinely both theoretically and practically, every progression, and all
the generation of the sublunary region may obtain complete perfection.