Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor: The Former Consisting of Ten Doubts Concerning Providence, and a Solution of Those Doubts; and the Latter Containing a Development of the Nature of Evil |
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according to nature admit adorned all-various Ammonius Hermias assert assimilated autem becomes bodies cause of evils conformably consequence contrary corruptive Cratylus dæmons debility Demiurgus derived divine essence essentially eternal everything evil subsists excellent existence former forms genera gnostic Gods greater degree Hence hyparxis hypostasis illuminations imparts indefinite infinite intel intellect irrational kind knowledge knows all things likewise malefic manner matter monad Morbeka's version nature of evil necessary to read non-being Parmenides participate passions perfect pertains Phædrus Plato says possess preternatural primarily evil principle prior privation proceed Proclus produced Providence providential energies proximate punishment quidem racterized rank reason respect sake Scholia sentence in Morbeka similitude soul species subcontrary subsists according suffer thence Timæus tion transcendent transcendent degree translation treatise twofold unity universe UNIVERSITY OF PARIS vanquished version of Morbeka vidence whole γαρ δε εν εστι και κατα μεν περι το τῳ των
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Page 17 - But how are statues said to have an enthusiastic energy ? May we not say, that a statue being inanimate, does not itself energize about divinity, but the telestic art, purifying the matter of which the statue consists, and placing round it certain characters and symbols, in the first place renders it, through these means, animated, and causes it to receive a certain life from the world ; and, in the next place, after this, it prepares the statue to be illuminated by a divine nature, through which...
Page 96 - We must therefore divest ourselves of our manifold garments, both of this visible and fleshly vestment, and of those with which we are internally clothed, and which are proximate to our cutaneous habiliments; and we must enter the stadium naked and unclothed, striving for [the most glorious of all prizes] the Olympia of the soul.
Page 18 - ... for he exhibits him as the statuary of the world, just as before he represented him the maker of divine names, and the enunciator of divine characters, through which he gave perfection to the soul. For these things are effected by those who are telestffi in reality, who give completion to statues, through characters and vital names, and render them living and moving.
Page 92 - ... characteristic, in this, that they assume a variety of shapes (each of the others immutably preserving one form), are subject to various passions, and are the causes of all-various deception to mankind. Proclus in Schol. MSS. in Cratylum observes, that the Minerva which so often appeared to Ulysses and Telemachus...
Page 19 - Sed iam de talibus sint satis dicta talia. Iterum, inquit, ad hominem rationemque redeamus, ex quo divino dono homo animal dictum est rationale. Minus enim miranda etsi miranda sunt, quae de homine dicta sunt. Omnium enim 10 mirabilium vicit admirationem, quod homo divinam potuit invenire naturam eamque efficere.
Page ix - The admirable dogma in this most beautiful extract, ** that knowledge subsists according to the nature of that which knows, and not according to the nature of that which is known...
Page 156 - About the king of all things all things are, and all things are on account of him, and he is the cause of all beautiful things. But second things are situated about that which is second ; and such as are third in gradation about that which is third.
Page 18 - Telestic art, through certain symbols, and arcane signatures, assimilates statues to the gods and makes them adapted to the reception of divine...