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 us, however, return whence we digressed, to the discussion
concerning the first demiurgus, in which it was said, that Jupiter,
Neptune, and Pluto divide the kingdom of their father. For prior
to these, the demiurgus received the kingdom of his father in an
undivided and uniform manner. For both the demiurgic monad and the
triad, were thence allotted their progression from the beginning, and
their dominion over secondary natures; but the former impartibly,
and the latter partibly; and the former monadically, but the latter
triadically. That you may not, therefore, think that these three
proceed after the same manner from the father, as the one king who
is prior to the three, Socrates, [in the Gorgias] in the form of a
fable, says that they divide the kingdom of the father, and on this
account require secondary laws, and a subordinate order, and which is
adapted to parts. For the law under Saturn, and the law of Jupiter who
recently possesses the kingdom [of his father] appear to be by no means
adapted to the providence of those powers who produce a partial and
various form of life. And do you not see how Socrates gives to total
Jupiter and to Saturn an exempt transcendency, and connects one law
with both kingdoms; but to the three demiurgi that divide the kingdom,
he definitely assigns as it were another polity, and more various
laws commensurate to the subjects of their providential care? For he
says that Pluto, and the curators were present enquiring of Jupiter
respecting the second legislation; but that he placed over partible
lives, other judges, and laws adapted to these lives. Again, therefore,
Jupiter, who definitely assigns things of this kind, and who generates
the three judges, is not the same with the Jupiter who is prior to the
three [demiurgi]. For the latter was together with his father according
to a prior law, and the simplicity of a divine life; but the former
together with Pluto, leads into order and bound the variety of partial
natures, and is the leader of secondary laws.