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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Let it therefore, from these things be manifest, that the demiurgic
monad, is exempt from the ruling fathers, and that according to one
undivided cause he generates beings eternally. But if Jupiter is
according to Plato, the one and whole fabricator of the only-begotten
world, as we have before demonstrated, and we grant these things
without being deceived, and if, as it is now said, and Socrates in
the Gorgias teaches us, the first of the demiurgi that divide the
kingdom of Saturn, is in a similar manner called Jupiter, there will
be according to this theory a twofold Jupiter, the one being an
intellectual God prior to the three fathers; but the other being of
a ruling, assimilative, and principal nature, and arranged at the
summit of the three. For Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, divide, says
Plato, the kingdom of their father, three leaders of wholes subsisting
from one great king as it were, and producing the one fountain of the
demiurgic series, into one all-perfect principal triad, which Plato
also indicating, denominates the providence divided in the three a
kingdom, attributing the first-effective, and the uniform to the Gods
prior to these. If these however, are not the only orders of Jupiter,
but there is also another Jovian multitude, how this proceeds will
be evident in what follows. For all these three fathers participate
of the same appellation, and are after the same manner celebrated by
poets inspired by Phœbus; but one is called simply Jupiter, another
marine Jupiter, and another subterranean Jupiter. The leader however
of the three, possesses primarily the paternal dignity in the triad,
and the appellation of the great Jupiter. For on account of the supreme
union which he is allotted with the fontal demiurgus, who is beyond
the three, he also participates of the same name as the total Jupiter,
without any distinction. And on this account, I think, Socrates in the
Cratylus, unfolding to us the arcane and mystic discipline concerning
the Gods, from names, and at one time co-arranging Jupiter with Saturn,
and at another with the remaining demiurgi, does not think it worth
while to speak twice about the same things, but in the intellectual
conceptions about the all-perfect demiurgus, he also thinks fit to
deliver the arcane discipline concerning the first of the three
demiurgi, through the truth of names. For in a certain respect, it
was not possible for him to do otherwise who shows that the theory in
things accords with names; since also, the father of this triad, is
inseparably united to the whole demiurgus. But of these things enough.