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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With respect, however, to the allotment and distribution of them,
in the first place, if you please, it is according to the whole
universe, the first of them producing essences, the second lives
and generations, and the third administering formal divisions. And
the first indeed establishing in the one demiurgus all things that
thence proceed; but the second calling all things into progression;
and the third converting all things to itself. In the second place,
the allotment and division of them are according to the parts of the
universe. For the first of them adorns the inerratic sphere, and the
circulation of it; but the second governs the planetary region, and
perfects the multiform, efficacious, and prolific motions in it; and
the last administers the sublunary region, and intellectually perfects
the terrestrial world. Again, in the third place, we may survey in
that which is generated, these three demiurgic progressions; since
Timæus also here makes mention of the offspring of Saturn. Jupiter,
therefore, administers the summit of generated natures, and governs the
spheres of fire and air. But Neptune all-variously moves the middle and
very-mutable elements, and is the inspective guardian of every moist
essence, which is beheld in air and water. And Pluto providentially
attends to the earth, and to every thing in the earth. Hence also he is
called terrestrial Jupiter.
In the fourth place, therefore, in the whole of generation, Jupiter
indeed is allotted the summits, and the parts which are raised above
others, in which also are the allotments of happy souls, as Socrates
says in the Phædrus, because they then live under Jupiter, beyond
generation. But Neptune is allotted cavities, and cavernous places,
with which generation, motion, and the incursion of concussions are
conversant. Hence, they call this God, the earth-shaker. And Pluto is
allotted the places under the earth, various streams, Tartarus itself,
and in short, the places in which souls are judged and punished. Whence
also, of souls themselves, they say that such of them as have not yet
proceeded into generation, but abide in the intelligible, are Jovian;
but that such as are conversant with generation, are arranged under
Neptune; and that such as are purified and punished after generation,
and wander under the earth, according to a journey of a thousand years,
or which are again converted and led back to their principle, are
perfected under Pluto.