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 each of the mundane genera enjoy the energy of the liberated
governors of the universe, according to a measure adapted to each, and
especially such as are able to follow the powers of these Gods. For in
the Gods themselves, we may perceive a twofold energy, the one indeed,
being co-arranged with the subjects of their providential care, but the
other being exempt and separate. According therefore, to the first of
these energies, the mundane Gods govern sensibles, and convolve, and
convert them to themselves; but according to the other, they follow the
liberated Gods, and together with them are elevated to an intelligible
nature. And on this account, the Elean guest, makes the periods of the
whole world, and of each of the Gods in it to be twofold. For, he says,
that the sun, and each of the heavenly bodies, subsist according to
both these circulations, viz. the intellectual and the mundane; or, if
you are willing so to speak, according to the power which is motive of
secondary natures, and the power which ascends in conjunction with the
liberated Gods.
Moreover, he says, that our souls, and all the natures that have a life
separate from bodies, at one time live according to that elevating
progression, and at another according to the mundane; and now indeed
we proceed from youth to old age, since we have departed from a
flourishing and undefiled life, and are borne to earth, and generation;
but then on the contrary, we proceeded from old age to youth. On
which account, we were led round to a flourishing, intellectual, and
liberated form of energy. Hence also, the corporeal-formed nature [with
which we are connected,] was gradually obliterated, and whatever causes
us to tend downward, and renders us inseparable from the universe. But
an incorporeal, and immaterial nature shone forth, and was filled with
the Gods who are the leaders of a life of this kind.