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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For that which is always participated, is more similar to the
imparticipable than that which is sometimes participated. Hence,
before the imparticipable establishes that which is sometimes, it
will establish that which is always participable; and which by being
participated differs from that which is posterior to it, but by _the
always_ is more allied and more similar to the imparticipable. Nor
are there alone things which are sometimes participated; for prior to
these are the natures which are always participated, through which
these also are bound to imparticipables according to a certain well
ordered progression. Nor are there alone things which are sometimes
participated. For these possessing an inextinguishable power, since
they are always, are prolific of other things which are sometimes
participated, and as far as to these the diminution proceeds.
COROLLARY.
From hence it is evident that of the unions proceeding from _the
one_, and which illuminate beings, some are always, but others
sometimes participated. Intellectual participations, likewise, are in
a similar manner two-fold, as also are the animations of souls, and
the participations of other forms. For beauty, similitude, permanency,
and sameness, being imparticipable, are participated by natures which
always participate, and secondarily by those that sometimes participate
according to the same order.
PROPOSITION LXIV.
Every monad which ranks as a principle, gives subsistence to a two-fold
number; one indeed of self-perfect hypostases, but the other of
illuminations which possess their hypostasis in other things.
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