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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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For if things which are not one become one, they doubtless become so by
a conjunction and communication with each other, and they sustain the
presence of _the one_, not being that which _the one itself_ is. Hence,
they participate of _the one_ so far as they suffer to become one. For,
if they are already one they will not become one; since that which is
does not become that which it is already. But if they become one from
nothing, i.e. from the privation of _the one_, since a certain one
is ingenerated in them, _the one itself_ is prior to them. [And this
ingenerated one must be derived from _the one itself_. Every thing,
therefore, which becomes one, becomes so through the participation of
_the one_, &c.[204]]
PROPOSITION IV.
Every thing which is united is different from _the one itself_.
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For if it is united, it will participate in a certain respect of
_the one_, so far as it is said to be united. That, however, which
participates of _the one_, is both one and not one. But _the one
itself_ is not both one and not one. For if this were the case, again
the one which is in it would have both these, and this would take place
to infinity, there being no _one itself_ at which it is possible to
stop; but every thing being one and not one, there will be something
united which is different from _the one_. For if _the one_ is the
same with the united, it will be infinite multitude. And in a similar
manner each of the things of which the united consists will be infinite
multitude. [Every thing, therefore, which is united is different from
_the one itself_.[205]]
PROPOSITION V.
All multitude is posterior to _the one_.
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For if multitude is prior to _the one_, _the one_ indeed will
participate of multitude, but multitude which is prior to _the one_
will not participate of _the one_, since that multitude existed prior
to the subsistence of _the one_. For it will not participate of that
which is not; because that which participates of _the one_, is one
and at the same time not one; but _the one_ will not yet subsist,
that which is first being multitude. It is, however, impossible that
there should be a certain multitude, which in no respect whatever
participates of _the one_. Multitude, therefore, is not prior to _the
one_.