The Greek text of Proclus abounds with errors, so that the emendations which I have made, and the deficiencies which I have supplied in this volume, amount to more than four hundred. And the Latin translation of Portus is so very faulty, as to be almost beyond example bad. Having discovered this to be the case, and having in so many places corrected the original, I scarcely think that any of my critical enemies will be hardy enough to say, that any part of this volume was translated from the Latin, where the Greek could be obtained. As I am conscious however, that in what is now offered to the public, I had no other view than to benefit those who are capable of being benefited by such sublime speculations; that wishing well to all mankind, and particularly to my country, I have laboured to disseminate the philosophy and theology of Plato, as highly favourable to the interests of piety and good government, and most hostile to lawless conduct and revolutionary principles; and that I have done my best to deserve the esteem of the wise and worthy part of mankind, 1 am wholly unconcerned as to the reception it may meet with fi*om the malevolent, though I wish for the approbation of the candid critics of the day. For in all my labours I have invariably observed the following Py thagoric precept: *^ Do those things which you judge to be beautifiil, though in doing them you should be without renown; for the rabble is a bad judge of a good thing."* CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK I.
CHAPTER I.
The Preface, m which the scope of the treatise is unfolded, together with the praise of Plato him* self, and of those that received the philosophy from him.
CHAPTER n.
What the mode of the discussion b in the present treatise, and what preparation of the auditors of il is previously necessary.
CHAPTER in.
What a dieologist b according to Plato, whence he begins, as far as to what hypostases he ascends^ and according to what power of the soul he particularly energizes.
CHAPTER IV.
The theological ^pes or forms according to all which Plato dbposes tfie doctrine concerning the Gods.
CHAPTER V.
What^ Aalogues are from which die theology of Plato may eiipecially be assumed; and to what orders of Gods each of these dfal<^ues refers us.
liv CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VI.
An objection against collecting the Platonic theology from many dialogues, in consequence of its being partial, and distributed into minute parts.
CHAPTER Vn.
A solution of the before mentioned objection, referring to one dialogue, the Parmenides, the whole truth concerning the Gods according to Plato.
CHAPTER Vlll.
An enumeration of the different opinions concerning the Parmenides, and a division of the objec- tions to them.
CHAPTER IX.
A confutation of those who assert that the Parmenides is a logical dialogue, and who admit that the discussion in it is argumentative, proceeding through subjects of opinion.
CHAPTER X.
How for they are right who assert that the hypotheses of the Parmenides are concerning the princi- ples of things, and what is to be added to what they say from the doctrine of our preceptor [Syrianus.]
CHAPTER XL Many demonstrations concerning the conclusions of the second hypothesis, and of the division of it according to the divine orders.
CHAPTER XIL The intention of the hypotheses, demonstrating their connexion with each other, and their consent with the things themselves.'
CHAPTER XIII.
What the common rules concerning the Gods are, which Plato delivers in the Laws. And also concerning the hyparxis of the Gods, their providence, and their immutable perfection.
CHAPTER XIV.
How the hyparxis of the Gods is delivered in the Laws, and through what media die discourse recurs to the truly existing Gods. How the providence of the Gods is demonstrated in the Laws, and what the mode of their providence is according to Plato.* ' The 12th chapter is not marked in the original; but it begins conformably to my translation. * The 15tb chapter also is not marked in the original; and is comprehended in my translation in the 14th chap- ter. Perhaps it should begin at the words, " If therefore the Gods produce all things," in p. 49.
CONTENTS. W CHAPTER XV.
Through what arguments in the same treatise [the Laws] it is demonstrated that tfae Gods provide [for all thingsj immutably.
CHAPTER XVI.
What the axioms are concerning the Gods which are delivered in the Republic, and what order thej have with respect to each other.
CHAPTER XVII.
What the goodness of the Gods is, and how they are said to be the causes of all good; and that evil according to every hypostasis is itself adorned and arranged by the Gods.
CHAPTER XVin.
What the immutability is of the Gods; where also it b shown what their self-sufficiency, and firm impassivity are; and how we are to understand their possessing an invariable sameness of subsistence.
CHAPTER XIX.
. What the simplicity is of the Gods; and how that which is simple in them appears to be various in secondary natures.
CHAPTER XX.
What the truth is in the Gods j and whence falsehood is introduced in the participations of the Gods by secondary natures.
CHAPTER XXr.
From the axioms in the Phaedrus concerning every thing divine [it follows] that every thing divine is beautiful, wise, and good.
CHAPTER XXII.
A discussion of the dogmas concerning the goodness [of the Gods,] and an investigation of the elements of the good in the Philebus.
CHAPTER XXIII. What the wisdom of the Gods is, and what elements of it may be assumed from Plato.
CHAPTER XXIV. Concerning divine beauty, and the elements of it, as delivered by Plato.
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CHAPTER XXV.
What the triad is which is conjoined with the good, the wise, and the beautiful, and what auxili* aries to the theory of it, Plato affords us/ CHAPTER XXVI.
Concerning the axioms delivered in the Phaedo/ respecting an invisible nature. What the divine nature is. What the immortal, and the intelligible 3 are; and what order these possess with reference to each other.
CHAPTER XXVIl.
What the uniform and indissoluble are, and how sameness of subsistence [and the unbegotten are] to be assumed in divine natures.
CHAPTER XXVni.
How paternal, and how maternal causes are to be assumed in the Gods.
CHAPTER XXIX.
Concerning divine names, and the rectitude of them as delivered in the Cratylus.
CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OP BOOK II.
CHAPTER I.
A method leading to the superessential principle of all things, according to the intellectual concep* tion of the one and multitude.
CHAPTER II.
A second method unfolding the hypostasis of the one, and demonstrating it to be exempt from all corporeal and incorporeal essences.
' Such is the title of this chapter in the Greek, which is obviously erroneous. For the proper title is, ** What that is which unites us to the good; and that it is divine faith.'' What is said indeed in the Greek to be the con*, tenU of this, belong to the preceding chapter.
* For f 9»t^rf> it is necessary to read w f •«i«*y<.
^ In the Greek to (jwou^s the'uniformf but it should evidently be f unrf, the intelligikle* CONTENTS. Irii CHAPTER HI.
Many argum^ts in confirmation of the same thing, and evincing the irreprebensible hypothesb of the one.
CHAPTER IV.
A confutation of those who saj that the first principle is not according to Plato above intellect^ and den^onstrations from the Republic, the Sophbta, the Philebus, and the Pannenides^ of the superessential hypostasb^ of the one.
CHAPTER V.
What the modes are of ascent to the one according to Plato; and that the modes are two, through analogy, and tlirough negations. Likewise, where Hato treats of each of these, and through what cause, CHAPTER VI.
By what, and by how many names Plato unfolds the ineffable principle, and why he unfolds it by such' and by so many names. And how these names accord with the modes of ascent to it.
CHAPTER VII.
What the assertions are in the Republic concerning the first principle, through its analogy to the sun; where also it is shown, how it is celebrated as the good, and as the most splendid of being. How the sun is the offsprmg of the good; and that according to each order of divine natures, there is a monad analogous to the first principle. And how the first principle is the cause of all beings, and is itself prior to power and energy.
CHAPTER VIII.
What Plato m his Epistle to Di<Miysius says the first king is. And admonitioiis, that the first God is discussed in that Epistle.
CHAPTER IX.
What the three conceptions are which are delivered [in that Epistle] concerning the first king. How all things are about him. How all things are for his sake. How he is the cause of all beautiful things, What the order is of diese cc^iceptiops. And from what hypotheses they are assupied.
CHAPTER X.
How in the first hypothesis of the Parmenides, Plato delivers the doctrine concerning the one, employing for this purpose negations. And <m what account the negations are such and so inuiy.
Iviii CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XI.
How it is necessary to enter on the theory concerning tfie one, through nations. And what dis^ position of the soul is most adapted to discussions of this kind.
CHAPTER Xn.
A celebration of the oite/demonstrating through negative conclusions that it is exempt from all the orders of beings^ according to the order delivered in the Parmenides.
CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK III.
CHAPTER I.
That after the discussion in common of the one principle of things, it is requisite to treat of the divine orders, and to show how many they are, and how they are divided from each other.
CHAPTER U.
That the multitude of unities according to which the Gods have their hypostasis, subsists after the one.
CHAPTER in.
How many the particulars are which ought to be demonstrated previous to the discovery of the multitude of the divine orders, and an uninterrupted narration of the doctrine of these.
CHAPTER IV.
That all the unities are participate. And that there is only one truly superessential one; but that all the other unities are participated by essences.* CHAPTER V.
That the participations of the unities which are nearer to the one, proceed into more simple hypos- tases; but the participations of those that are remote from the one, proceed into more com- posite hypostases.
' These four chapters are comprehended in one in my translation, as they are not paarked in the Gr^k; and I had not divided them, when this work was sent to the press, as I have done the chapters of the other books, in which there is a similar defect in the original.
CONTENTS. Ux CHAPTER VI.
What the natures are which participate of the divine unities^ and what the order of them is with res- pect to each other. And that being indeed^ is the most ancient of these; life^ the second; intellect, the third; soul, the fourth; and body, the last. And that there are also as many orders of the divine unities/ CHAPTER Vn- A resumption of the doctrine concerning the one, and a discussion of the biformed principles pos- terior to the one.
CHAPTER VUI.
What the two principles are of all things posterior to the one; how Socrates the Philebus calls them bound and infinity; and of what things they are the causes* to beings.'
. CHAPTER IX.
What the third thing is which is produced from the two principles. Why Socrates in the Philebus calls it that which is mixed That it is nothing else than that which is primarily being.^ And bow this proceeds from the two principles, and from the one.
CHAPTER X.
How from images also, it may be inferred, that the first thing which subsists from bound and infi- nity is being, s How this may be demonstrated. And how bound and infinity are twofold; one order of these subsisting in being, but the other existing prior to being.'
CHAPTER XL What the triad is, which Socrates in the Philebus says is inherent in every thing that is mixed,* CHAPTER XII.
Concerning the first intelligible triad in common; and how the second triad proceeds analogous to this.'
' The fifth and sixth chapters are comprehended in the second chapter in my translation.
* For wtf-MM, it is necessary to read (unai.
3 The seventh and eighth chapters form the third in my translatioi^ ♦ For If, it is necessary to read w.
' And the ninth and tenth are the fourth and fifth chapters in my translation.
^ This, is the sixth chapter in n^y translation.
^ It appears from this account of the contents of the twelfth chapter, that a considerable part of it is wanting in the original; because nothing is sud in it about the manner in which the second UM proseeds analogous to the first.
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CHAPTEBl XIIL What the second intelligible triad b. A more accurate account of it, as subsisting from Aat vhich predominates, from that which is participated, and from that which characterizes the mixture- CHAPTER XIV.
What the third intelligible triad is; what that is which predominates, and is participated in this. And at the end, a discourse in common concerning the distinction of the three triads.
CHAPTER XV.
How the intelligible triads are delivered in the Timaus. And many admonitions concemmg animal itself, [evincing] that it has the thiiti order in intelligibles.
CHAPTER XVI. Many demonstrations that eternity subsists according to the middle order of intelligibles.
CHAPTER XVII.
That the one in which etemity^bides is the summit of intelligibles.
CHAPTER XVm.
Concerning all the intelligible orders in conmion, according to the doctrine of Timseus. And a more accurate account of the peculiarities in the intelligible triads.
CHAPTER XIX.
Concerning intelligible forms, and the doctrine unfolding the peculiarity of them. How likewise they are four, and from what causes they subsist.
CHAPTER XX.
That also from what is said in the Sophista, it is possible to discover the three intelligible orders; viz. in that part of the Sophista, in which it is shewn what the one being, what whole, and what all are.
CHAPTER XXL A summary account of ^what has been said concerning the intelligible triads. And admonitions from Plato that it is possible to divide them into ftilfaer, power, and intellect CHAPTER XXII.
How in die Phaidnu it is said that every thing divine is beautiful, wise, and good. What triple elements of each of these Plato delivers. And how from these it is possible to accede to the union and separation of die intelligible triads.
CONTENTS. hi CHAPTER XXIII.
How Parmenides delivers the maltitude of Gods in the second hypothesis. And how we should discourse about each order of them, employing for this purpose the conclusions of that hypothesis.
CHAPTfiR XXIV.
What the first intelligible triad is according to Parmenides. Whence he begins, and how far he proceeds, teaching concerning it.
CHAPTER XXV.
What the second intelligible triad is. How it is delivered by Purmenides in continuity widi the triad prior to it. And how far he produces die discourse concerning it.
CHAPTER XXVI. What the diird intelligible triad is. And how Parmenides unfolds it through the third conclusion.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Concerning the three conclusions in common, through which the three orders of intelligiblei, are characterized. And how through these it is possible to dissolve the most difiicult of theolo- gical doubts.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
A celebration of the intelligible Gods, unfolding at the same time the nnion of intelligibles diemselves with the good, and their exempt hypahds.
CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK IV.
CHAPTER L What the peculiarity is of the intelligible and intellectual Gods. How they illuminate imparticipa- ble life, and are in continuity with the intelligible Gods.
CHAPTER II.
How the intelligible and intellectual Gods subsist from the intelligible Gods. And how they com- municate with the intelligible Gods.
Ixii CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IIL What the division is of the intelligible and intellectual Gods according to triads. And what the dif- ference is of these triads with respect to the intelligible triads.
CHAPTER IV.
How Socrates in the Phsedrus leads us to thb order of Gods, CHAPTER V.
That it is not proper to understand the Heaven^ and celestial circulation [celebrated in the Phae- drus] as pertaining to sensibles; and many admonitions from the Platonic words themselves^ that these are to be referred to the first order of Heaven.
CHAPTER VI.
That the supercelestial place is not simply intelligible; but demonstrations from what is delivered about it [in the PhaedrusJ that it is allotted an intelligible order as in inl;ellectuals, CHAPTER VII.
That the subcelestial arch is the boundary of the intelligible and intellectual Godsj, evinced from the peculiarities of it.
CHAPTER VIII.
Why Plato characterizes this order of Gods from the middle which it contains^ and delivers the names of the extremes according to the habitude to diis middle.
CHAPTER IX.
That Plato delivers the same mode of ascent to the intelligible^ as is delivered by initiators into the mysteries.
CHAPTER X.
What the supercelestial place is. How it proceeds from the first intelligibles. How it is supreme in intellectualst And how Plato demonstrates its prolific power.
CHAPTER XI.
How Plato has indicated the unknown peculiarity of the summit of intelligibles and intellectuals^ and why he celebrates it at one and the same time aflirmatively and negatively.
CHAPTER XII.
What the negations are of the supercelestial place. That they are produced from the divine orders, What kind of negations also designate the uncoloured, what^ the unfigured^ and what; the prir vation of contact, CONTENTS. l&iii CHAPTER XIII.
What die things are which Plato affirms of the supercelestial place, and from what intelligible pecu- liarities, he ascribes to it affirmative signs.
CHAPTER XIV.
What the three deities of the virtues, viz. science, temperance, and justice, are in the supercelestial place; what order they have with respect to each other; and what perfection each of them imparts to the Gods.
CHAPTER XV.
W^hat the plain of Truth, and what the meadow are. What the unical form of intelligible nutri- ment is. What the twofold nutriment of the Gods b which is distributed from this intelligible food.
CHAPTER XVL Many admonitions that the supercelestial place is triadic. And what the signs are of the three hypostases in it.
CHAPTER XVn.
Who Adrastia b. What the sacred law of Adrastia b. That she ranks in the supercelestial place. And on what account she does so.
CHAPTER XVIIL A summary account of what is said about the supercelestial place, unfolding the peculiarities of it.
CHAPTER XIX.
Demonstrations that the connectedly-containing order is in the intelligible and intellectual Gods. And that it b necessary there should be three connective causes of wholes.
CHAPTER XX.
That according to Plato the celestial circulation is the same with the connective order.
CHAPTER XXI.
How we may obtain auxiliaries from what is said by Plato of the triadic division in the connective deity. And why he especially venerates the union in thb triad.
CHAPTER XXII.
What the theology in the Cratylus is concerning Heaven. And how it is possible to collect; from it by a reasoning process the middle of the intelligible and intellectual Gods^ IxW CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXIII.
That the most divinely-inspired of the interpreters have defined the subcelesUal arch to be a certain peculiar order. And diat our preceptor has unfolded it in the most perfect manner.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Many admonitions that the peculiarity of the subcelestial arch is perfective^ from what Plato has delivered concerning it^ and from the souls that are elevated to it.
CHAPTER XXV.
What the triadic division is of the perfective order, which Plato has delivered in the subcelestial arch.
CHAPTER XXVI.
What the elevation is of souls separate from bodies to the intelligible and intellectual triads. What the most blessed telete is. What muesis, and epopteia are. What the entirei simplcj and unmoved visions are. And what the end is of all this elevation, CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXVII.
How Plato unfolds in the Pannenides, from intelligibles the intelligible and intellectual orders. And what that which is common; and that which is different are, in the theology concemiug these, CHAPTER XXVIH.
How the intelligible and intellectual number proceeds from intelligiffles. And in what it differs from intelligible multitudes ' CHAPTER XXIX, How divine number adorns aH beiiq;s. And vrint the powers in it are which are symbolically delir vered bom the division of number, CHAPTER XXX.
How Parmenides has delivered the feminine and generative peculiarity [of first number] m what he says concerning number, CHAPTER XXXI.
How we may discover in what is delivered concerning number, the triadfc divisicNi of the summit of intelligibles and intellectuals. ^ CHAPTER XXXH.
Whether it is proper to place pumber prior to animal itself^ or in animal itself, or posterior to it.
COKTBNT8. 1?T CHAPTER XXXIIl.
Whence Parmenides begins to speak about number. How far he proceeds in what he says about it. And how he unfolds the different orders in it.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
What the unknown is in divine numbers. What the generative is in them. And admonitions of these diings from what is elsewhere said by Plato concerning numbers.
CHAPTER XXXV.
How Parmenides delivers the middle order of intelligibles and intellectuals through the one, whole, and finite. And what the peculiarities are of these.
CHAPTER XXXVL Whence Parmenides begins to speak about this order. And how far he proceeds in what he says about it. How he like\yise unfolds the three monads in it conformably to what is said in the Phaedrus concerning them.
CHAPTER XXXVU.
How Parmenides delivers the third order of intelligibles and intellectuals. And how he unfolds the perfective peculiarity^ and triadic division of it.
CHAPTER XXXVllI.
An admonition what tlie union is of the three intelligible and intellectual triads^ from the conclu- sions of Parmenides.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
How many theological dogmas we may assume, through the order of the conclusions delivered by Parmenides in his discourse concerning the intelligible and intellectual Gods.
CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK V.
CHAPTER I.
How the intellectual orders proceed from the intelligible and intellectual Gods. And according to what peculiarities they subsist.
CHAPTfeir II.
What the division is of the intellectual Gods. And the progression according to hebdomads in diis order of Gods. Proc. VOL. II. « Jlti CONTENTS.
CHAPTER in.
Wko the three inteDectoa! ftthers are according to Plato. What the three imdefiled monads are. And who the seventh deity is^ diat is co*arranged with die two triads.
CHAPTER fV.
How from the writings of Plato, the procession of the intellectttal Gods into seven hebdomads nay be collected by a reasoning process.
CHAPTER V.
Who the mighty Saturn is, according to the theology in tiie CraCylns. And kow he is in a certain respect intelligible, and in a certain respect intellectual, in which also, the dognms are dis- cussed concerning the union of intellect with the btelligible, and its separation from it.
CHAPTER VI.
What die kingdom of Saturn is. In what manner it b ddivered by Plato in the Politicus. And of what it is die cause to the world, to the mundane Gods^ and to partiri souls.
CHAPTER VIL What the Satumian life of souls is. And what peculiarities of this circnlatioB the Elean Guest delivers.
CHAPTER VIII.
How souls are said to be nourished by mtelligibles. And what the difference is of the nutriment derived from different mtelligibles.
CHAPTER IX.
What the orders are which the mighty Saturn causes to preside over wholes. In which also^ who the Satumiau mtellect is that is delivered in the Gorgias is unfolded.
CHAPTER X.
How diis God [Saturn] is peculiariy called by theologists insenescible^ or fr^ee from old age. ^And how Plato has delivered Uiis peculiarity of him.
CHAPTER XL Who the vivific Goddess is. How she is the collector of the Saturnian and Jovian kingdoms. And what orders she possesses conjoined with both these kingdoms.
CHAFFER Xn.
Who the third father in intellectuals is. How he proceeds from the causes prior to him. And that he is the deminrgus of the universe.
eOHTlNTS* IvWI CHAPTER xnr.
Pemoostratioiia that die whole demiurges of the luiiferse^ is tfie third ftlher of the iotellectual Goda.
CHAPTER XIV.
An anftwer to thoee who say that there are ftsee damiuigi. according^ ta Plato^ dfunftastralmg through many arguments that the demiurgio monad is arranged prior to the [demiui^] triad, in the third order of intellectuals* CHAPTER XV- That Timsus especially delivers the peculiarity of the demiurgus, by calling him intellect. And that this pertains to the third of the intellectual fathers.
CHAPTER XVL How according to another method it is reqimite to discofer the peculiarity of the demiurgus. Andf how the demiurgus is called m the Tinueus effector and father. In which also, it is clearly shown, where* the paternal, where the paternal and^at the same time eflbetiYe, vidiere the' effM> ti?e and paternal, and where the effective only are, acconHng to FUlOr And' in short, ia what effector and &ther differ, CHAPTER XVIL How following Timseus, according to a third method, we may purify our conceptions concerning the demiurgic monad.
CHAPTER XVIII.
A theological' explanation of Ae speech of the demiurgus in the Timaeus, distinctly evolving our conceptions about the demiurgic energy.
CHAPTER XIX.
What the second speech of the demiurgus is to divisible souls. In what it differs from the tomktr. And how in thb all the measures of the life of souls are defined.
CHAPTER XX.
A summary of all that is sMd about the demiurgus, following the doctrine of Timaeus.
CHAPTER XXI. Admonitions from what is said in the Cratylus^ that Plato attributes fabrication to Jupiter.
Ixviii CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXH.
Admonitions from what is said in the Cratylus of the fabrication of Jupiter. In which also thiB concord is demonstrated of the theology from names, with the arrangement of the deminrgus in the Tima^us.
CHAPTER XXni.
Admonitions of the fabrication of Jupiter from what is demonstrated in (he Philebus. In which also it is shown, what the royal sou), and the royal intellect are.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Demonstrations of the same thing, from what is said in the Protagoras about the political science.
CHAPTER XXV.
An argument shewing that Jupiter is the demiurgus and fadier of die universe' according to PIato> from what is said in the Ppliticus concerning the twofold circulation [of the universej CHAPTER XXVI.
Admonitions of the same things, from what is said in tbe Laws concerning analogy, Viz. that it is the judgment of Jupiter.
CHAPTER XXVII. How Jupiter subsists according to cause in animal itself, and how animal itself is in Jupiter.
CHAPTER XXVIII. How Timseus attributes to the demiurgus the unknown and ineffable.
CHAPTER XXIX.
Why Tima^us thinks fit to denominate animal itself, and is of opinion that it may be known^ but leaves the demiurgus unknown and ineffable.
CHAPTER XXX, Concerning the Crater in the Timanis, a theology teaching what the genera are that are mingled in it^ and bow it is the cause of the essence of souls.
CHAPTER XXXr.
Tliat the Crater in the Timaeus is fontal. And admonitions from the writings of Plato, concerning ^e principle and fountain of souls.
For «X4iTBWf, it b necessary to read ««mf.
CONTENTS. ' hlX CHAPTER XXXir.
That the diree yivific fountains co-aimnged with the demiurgus, ma^f be assumed from what is said in the Timaeus, Tiz. the fountain of souls^ the fountain of the virtues^ and the fountain of natures.
CHAPTER XXXni.
Admonitions concerning the undefiled Gods; that there are such Gods according to Plato; and {what the peculiarity is of their essence.
CHAPTER XXXIV. More manifest demonstrations of the hypostasis of the undefiled Gods, according to Plato.
CHAPTER XXXV; Admonitions dirough many arguments how it is proper to denominate the undefiled Gods accord- ing to Plato. In which also^ the union of th^n, what dieir separation^ and what their pecu*- liarity are, is delivered.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
How from what is mystically asserted by Plato, auxiliaries may be obtained, concemii^ die seventh monad of intellectuals.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
How Plato delivers in ihe Parmenides the summit of the intellectual Gods.'
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
How Parmenides unfolds the middle order of the intellectual breadth^ and through what signs.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
How Parmenides defines the third order of intellectuals, and thrpi^;h what peculiarities.
CHAPTER XL.
A common theory of Ac intellectual hebdomad, from the conclusions of Parmenides.
» The contents of chapter thirty-seven in the original erroneously form the conclusion of the contents of chapter thirty-six. And instead of ^s w axpomr*, it is therefore necessary to read »?;? tnt «cf«oiT«. Hence whtt are marked as xifi. xf,«it. xt, and x«9. \9, should be mariced «f. x»i, xif. x«, and xi^. fx'. It will be found also that chapter forty is wanting.
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CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK VL CHAPTER L That the ruling order of Gods is ia contiouity witl^ the intellectual Gods. And that the division into fountains and pnnciples mny be assumed from die writings of Plato, through die dieory about souls.
CHAPTER 11.
How the ruling Gods pioceed. And that the supermundane peculiarity pertains to these Gods alpqe.
CHAPTER UL What the peculiar!^ ia of tfie ruling Gods. That the assimilative is especially diaracteristic of them. And how the causes of assimilation aire antecedently assumed in the demiurgus; and hpv| inthftintalligfble paradigm*^ CHAPTER IV.