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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But the second is subversive
of every thing confused, and exterminative of all disorder. And the
third renders all things commensurate and friendly to each other,
through harmonic reasons. An undefiled however, and most pure cause
presides over these monads, illuminating all things with perfection,
and a subsistence according to nature, and expelling the contraries to
these.
Of the solar triad, therefore, the first monad, indeed, unfolds
intellectual light, and announces it to all secondary natures, fills
all things with total truth, and elevates them to the intellect of
the Gods. And this we say is the employment of the prophetic power of
Apollo, viz. to lead forth into light the truth comprehended in divine
natures, and to perfect that which is unknown to secondary natures.
But the second and third monads, emit efficacious and demiurgic acme,
in order to the production of wholes, and perfect energy, according
to which they adorn indeed every thing sensible, but exterminate
the inordinate and indefinite from the universe. And one of these
monads is analogous to the production in wholes through music, and to
the harmonious providence of things that are moved. But another is
analogous to the power which is subversive of all disorder, and of the
confusion and tumult which are contrary to form, and to the arrangement
of wholes. And the remaining monad which supplies all things with an
unenvying and exuberant communication of what is beautiful, which
extends the beneficial, and imparts true blessedness, closes indeed
the solar principles, but guards its triple progression. In a similar
manner also, it illuminates ascending natures, with the perfect and
intellectual measure of a happy life, presiding in the sun analogous to
the purifying and Pœonian powers of the king Apollo.