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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The divine law, therefore, is with the intellectual kings, Saturn and
Jupiter; and also Justice the avenger of those who transgress the
divine law, as the Athenian guest says. But other more various laws are
with the three sons of Saturn, and also judges co-ordinate to such like
laws, as it is written in the Gorgias. And there indeed, [i.e. with the
intellectual kings,] all things are impartibly, and unitedly; but here,
[i.e. with the three sons of Saturn], all things subsist in a divided
and partible manner. And the things which are there being primary, the
law indeed is more Saturnian. But Justice follows the great Jupiter.
And the laws indeed pertaining to secondary natures, confer perfection
under the first of the sons of Saturn. But the judges give completion
to the empire of the third of these sons. And Pluto participates from
the second Jupiter of the separation of the laws; in the same manner as
the total Jupiter receives from Saturn the one law which is to be the
co-administrator with him in the total fabrication of things. In short,
the Jupiter who is co-arranged with Neptune and Pluto, is the summit of
the ruling triad; but the Jupiter who is co-arranged with Saturn and
the mistress Rhea, is the third of the intellectual[19] triad. Hence
also, Socrates, in the Cratylus, at one time ascends from Jupiter to
Saturn, and conjoins the two kingdoms; but at another time he proceeds
from Jupiter to Neptune and Pluto, and unfolds this one ruling triad;
just as in the Gorgias, he weaves together the Saturnian and Jovian
order, when he says that there is one and the same law in both. He
co-arranges therefore, the second and more partial Jupiter with
Pluto, according to the apparent correction of the prior law, and the
distribution of the second laws. And thus much may suffice concerning
these particulars.
CHAPTER X.[20]
It now remains that we should begin to speak about these three fathers,
following the mystic narrations of Plato, since all of them are
suspended from the demiurgic monad, and present themselves to our view
as the second [in rank] after it. These three leaders, therefore, of
wholes, and rulers, are emitted indeed from the intellectual fathers,
and are divided according to them; but they are unfolded into light
in all the partible orders of the Gods. For among the rulers they are
allotted the first order, and are analogous to the intelligible and
intellectual fathers, in the whole assimilative series, and having
made a second progression in the liberated Gods, they rule over the
universe. Together also with the mundane Gods, they give completion
to the apparent order of things, being allotted in one way an essence
in the heavens, but in another way distributing the total parts in
the sublunary region, but every where energizing paternally and
demiurgically, expanding the one fabrication, and adapting it to parts.