The Six Books of Proclus, the Platonic Successor, on the Theology of Plato, Tr. 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 Providence; and a Translation of Extracts from His Treatise On the Subsistence of Evil; as Preserved in the Bibliotheca Gr. of Fabricius, المجلد 2author, 1816 |
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abiding adapted all-perfect allotted analogous animals assert assimilative bodies called cause celestial co-arranged comprehends conjoined converted convolves Cratylus dæmoniacal dæmons deity demiurgus denominated derived divided divine souls earth energy ennead essence eternal evil exempt fabrication Fate father genera genus gives subsistence gnostic greater number Heaven Hence Hesiod hyparxis hypostasis illuminations immoveable imparticipable imparts indissoluble ineffable infinite infinity intel intellect intellectual Gods intelligible Jupiter knowledge leader liberated Gods likewise manner middle monad Morbeka mortal motion multitude mundane Gods mundane natures necessary to read Orpheus Parmenides partial souls participate paternal peculiarity perfect perpetual Phædo Phanes Phorcys Plato Plotinus Pluto possesses posterior primarily principle prior proceeds Proclus produced progression PROPOSITION Proserpine providential proximately respect Rhea Saturn says secondary natures separate similitude Socrates sublunary subsists according summit supermundane suspended Syrianus Tethys theologists things Timæus transcendency triad unapparent undefiled unfolds union unity universe vivific whole
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الصفحة 244 - But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem : for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
الصفحة 194 - What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.
الصفحة 179 - ... to which they are naturally allied, it is proper that complying with the law, we should assent to their tradition.
الصفحة xxxvi - For she that proceeds from the genitals of Heaven is supermundane, leads upwards to intelligible beauty, is the supplier of an unpolluted life, and separates from generation. But the •Venus that .proceeds from Dione governs all the co-ordinations in the celestial world and the earth, binds them to each other, and perfects their generative progressions, through a kindred conjunction. These...
الصفحة 278 - Homer represents him as desiring a union with body, that he may assist his father. While on the contrary Minos and Rhadamanthus, who were heroes illuminated by Jupiter, raised themselves from generation to true being, and meddled with mortal concerns no farther than absolute necessity required.
الصفحة 238 - Fortune, in conjunction with other primarjr causes, directs, places in order, and governs. Hence she is represented guiding a rudder, because she governs things sailing on the sea of generation. Her rudder too is fixed on a globe, because she directs that which is unstable in generation. In her other hand, she holds the horn of Amalthea, which is full of fruits, because she is the cause of obtaining all divine fruits. And on this account, we venerate the fortunes...
الصفحة 336 - ... those in a dream, who imagine that the perceptions of sleep are true. For sense is alone the employment of the dormant soul; since as much of the soul as is merged in body, so much of it sleeps. But true elevation and true vigilance are a resurrection from, and not with, the dull mass of body. For, indeed, a resurrection with body is only a transmigration from sleep to sleep, and from dream to dream, 89 like a man passing in the dark from bed to bed.
الصفحة 141 - ... there is both the wholeness and a leader, which is allotted an exempt transcendency. For the planets being secondary to the fixed stars, require a twofold prefecture, the one more total, but the other more partial. But that in each of these there is a multitude co-ordinate with each, you may infer from the extremes. For if the inerratic sphere has a multitude co-ordinate with itself, and earth is the wholeness of terrestrial, in the same manner as the inerratic sphere is of celestial animals,...
الصفحة 225 - I have not leisure at all for such matters ; and the cause of it, my friend, is this ; I am not yet able, according to the Delphic precept, to know myself. But it appears to me to be ridiculous, while I am still ignorant of this to busy myself about matters that do not concern me.