The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, in Five Books: Containing a Treasury of Pythagoric and Platonic Physiology, Volume 1The author, 1820 - Physiology |
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adapted adorned æther all-perfect allotted analogous Aristotle arranged asserted assimilated assumed Athenians beautiful becoming body called celestial celestial Gods co-ordination comprehends conformably conjoined conjunction contrariety contrary corrupted Critias dæmons demiurgic cause Demiurgus demonstrated denominated derived discussion disorderly divided divine duad earth elements energy essence excellent existing fabrication father fire former genera genus gives subsistence Goddess Gods heavens Hence Hermocrates hypostasis Iamblichus imitates imparts infinity intel intellect intelligible animal Jupiter kind likewise manifest manner matter middle Minerva monad motion multitude mundane natures narration necessary to read opinion paradigm Parmenides partial souls participate perfect perpetual pertains Phædo Phanes Philebus philosopher Plat Plato says polity Porphyry possesses principle prior proceeds Proclus produces reason receive requisite to read respect sense sensible signifies similar similitude Socrates Solon speak sublunary survey theologists things third Timæus tion triad truly twofold unbegotten universe visible whole words γαρ δε
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Page 148 - For at that time the Atlantic sea was navigable, and had an island before that mouth which is called by you the Pillars of Hercules. But this island was greater than both Libya and all Asia together, and afforded an easy passage to other neighbouring islands; as it was likewise easy to pass from those islands to all the continent which borders on this Atlantic sea.
Page 79 - There is, then, says he, a certain region of Egypt, called Delta, about the summit of which the streams of the Nile are divided, and in which there is a province called Saitical.
Page 157 - Atlantic sea. * * * But, in succeeding times, prodigious earthquakes and deluges taking place, and bringing with them desolation in the space of one day and night, all that warlike race of Athenians was at once merged under the earth ; and the Atlantic island itself being absorbed in the sea, entirely disappeared.
Page 432 - Gods of gods, of whom I am the demiurgus and father, whatever is generated by me is indissoluble, such being my will in its fabrication. Indeed, every thing which is bound is dissoluble : but to be willing to dissolve that which is beautifully harmonized and well composed, is the property of an evil nature.
Page 103 - ... diminution. But whatever has been transacted either by us, or by you, or in any other place, beautiful or great, or containing any thing uncommon, of which we have heard the report, every thing of this kind is to be found described in our temples, and preserved to the present day.
Page 83 - And upon his inquiring about ancient affairs of those priests who possessed a knowledge in such particulars superior to others, he perceived, that neither himself, nor any one of the Greeks, (as he himself declared), had any knowledge of very remote antiquity. Hence, when he once desired to excite them to the relation of ancient transactions, he for this purpose began to discourse about those most ancient events which formerly happened among us. I mean the traditions concerning the first Phoroneus...
Page 264 - And when your power around the whole has spread A strong coercive bond, a golden chain Suspend from aether.
Page 84 - These Seven Rulers we recognize as the seven Hindu Rishis, and seven Manus of the Manvantaras in the cycle of precession. A legend of the Jayas, in the Vayu Purana, states that Brahma created these gods as his deputies or assistants, but that they got lost in meditation and forgot his commands. On...
Page 159 - But, when yesterday you were discoursing about a republic and its citizens, I was surprised on recollecting the present history, for I perceived how Divinely, from a certain fortune, and not wandering from the mark, you collected many things agreeing with the narration of Solon.
Page 418 - How likewise did nature arrange them, since they are most remote in their situation from each other ? Was it not by perceiving their contrariety, and that the third was more allied than the last to the first ? How, also, did she arrange the motions of them, since fire is most light and tends upward, but earth is most heavy and tends downward ? But whence were the motions of them which are most contrary derived, if not from nature?