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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It remains, therefore, that a principality such as this of the Gods,
must either be that of the assimilative Gods, or of those that are
allotted a liberated dominion in the universe, as we say it must.
If, however, we should admit it to belong to the assimilative orders,
it will be the leader of a demiurgic triad, but not of the dodecad
which is now celebrated. The Jupiter, therefore, who is among the
assimilative Gods, and whom we have before unfolded, is the first of
the sons of Saturn. For these sons, as Socrates says in the Gorgias,
divide the whole kingdom of Saturn. And the first of them indeed is the
author of first, the second of middle, and the third of last natures.
The division, therefore, of mundane natures being three-fold, the first
of the sons of Saturn may be called the leader of the triadic division,
and the multitude proximately suspended from him will be the first of
the triadic division in the universe. But the leader of the twelve
Gods, presides over an army distributed into eleven parts. Hence[51]
the one defines his proper dominion in the thirds of wholes, but the
other in the twelfths. And according to the power of comprehension,
one of them defines his principality conformably to the triad, but the
other according to the endecad [or the number eleven.] By no means,
therefore, is each of these allotted the same order. The demiurgus,
therefore, and saviour Jupiter is uncoarranged with all these. But
the assimilative Jupiter is the leader of the division of wholes into
a triad. And the mundane Jupiter is among the number of leaders that
follow, and not of those that are exempt. The Jupiter, however, who is
celebrated by Socrates in the Phædrus, is co-arranged with the other
leaders, and presides over those that are disposed in an orderly manner
according to eleven parts, and not over those that receive a tripartite
division; and he is also exempt from all mundane natures on account of
the magnitude of his ruling transcendency. Hence he is different from
all the above-mentioned orders, and exhibits in no one of them the
peculiarity which is now presented to our view.