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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If, however, some one should think that we ought to abandon this
hypothesis, but that we should assert this Jupiter, and the other
leaders to be mundane, where must we arrange the Gods that follow him?
For Socrates says, “that the army of Gods and dæmons divided into
eleven parts, follows Jupiter.” For there are more comprehensive and
partial orders of Gods in the universe than these, and some of them
have the relation of leaders, but others of followers. The magnitude,
however, of the principality celebrated by Socrates, does not manifest
to us a transcendency co-arranged with, but exempt from mundane
natures. For in incorporeal causes, _the great_, imparts a peculiarity
of this kind to those to whom it is present. And as Love being not
simply called a dæmon by Diotima, but a _great_ dæmon, is demonstrated
to be expanded above all dæmons, and is a god, but is not arranged in
the genus of dæmons, thus also Jupiter, being celebrated as the _great_
leader, not as the mundane leader of mundane natures, but as exempt
from, and transcending the mundane order, is allotted this appellation.
But if Jupiter is exempt from the Gods in the world, it is necessary
that the other leaders also should have an essence antecedent to those
that follow Jupiter. For all of them are allotted a ruling dignity.
But if the other leaders are arranged as mundane, and Jupiter alone is
a leader beyond these, again we must transfer the whole principality
from the dodecad, to the Jovian monad. It is necessary, however, to
attribute a ruling power to all of them, and to preserve to Jupiter the
principal authority among them.