The Theology of Plato, in six books — trans. Thomas Taylor
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. Scholia of Proclus on the Cratylus of Plato concerning Apollo, in which the principal powers of the God are unfolded.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The nature of ihc Muses unfolded from the above MS. Scholia.
CHAPTER XIX.
The nature of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, unfolded. The manner in which ea«-h of the seven planetary divinities becomes an animal, and in suspended from a more divine soul ; and what kind of perfection it affords to the universe.
CHAPTER XX.
That all the celestial Gods nre beneficent, and after a similar manner the causes of good.— And that the participation of them, and the mixture of material with immaterial influences, become the causes of tbe abundant difference in secondary natures.
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CHAPTER XXI.
Tlie nature of Minerva unfolded from the Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeu*. — The spear and shield with which this Goddess, in the statues of her, ia represented aa armed,
CHAPTER XXII.
The nature of the great mundane divinity, the earth, unfolded from Proclus on the Timams of Plato.
CHAPTER XXIII.
The manner in which the earth is said to bo the most ancient, and the first of the Gods within the s, explained.
CHAPTER XXIV.
On the essence of the sublunary deities.-What Plato says of them in the Timwis unfolded.
CHAPTER XXV.
Where the sublunary Gods are to be arranged.— And the meaning of the subsequent words of Plato developed.
CHAPTER XXVI.
The nature of the sublunary Gods more fully unfolded.— On the dscmoniacal order.— And that about each of the fabricators of generation, there ia a co-ordinate angelical, demoniacal, sod beroical multitude, which retains die appellation of its producing monad.
CHAPTER XXVII.
What Pythagoras says in the Sacred Ditcours*. — What the Orphic traditions are concerning Phanes, Night, Heaven, Saturn, Jupiter, and Bacchus — That Plato begins the Theogony of the sublunary Gods from Heaven and Earth, and not from Phanes and Night.— And whv he does so.
CHAPTER XXVIH.
On die two principles Heaven and Earth. — What each of them is ; and particularly concerning the power of Heaven.
CHAPTER XXIX.
The wb«le theory of Earth unfolded— And also the theory of Ocean and Tethys That the causes i are in the intellectual Gods, and likewise in the sensible i
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CHAPTER XXX.
The theory of Phorcjs, Saturn, and Rhea, unfolded.
CHAPTER XXXf.
The nature of the sublunary Jupiter aud Juno unfolded.
nd Tethys That the causes i are in the intellectual Gods, and likewise in the sensible i
Uxvi CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXX.
The theory of Phorcjs, Saturn, and Rhea, unfolded.
CHAPTER XXXf.
The nature of the sublunary Jupiter aud Juno unfolded. — And why Plato comprehends in this ennead, viz- Heaven aud Earth, Ocean aud Tetfays, Phorcys, Saturn, Rhea, Jupiter, and Juno, the Gods who are the fabricators of generation.
CHAPTER XXXII.
Why Plato denominates the sublunary deities, " such as become apparent when they please."— General observations respecting the Gods that govern generation.
CHAPTER XX XI 1 1.
On the summit, or monad of all the mundane Gods, Bacchus.— And on the mundane soul which is the immediate participant of the Bacchic iutellect.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
How the mundane Gods arc characterized in the Parmenides of Plalo.
CHAPTER XXXV.
A developement of what Plato says m the Pha*driu, about Boreas and Orkhya, the Centaurs, Chimaras, Gorgons, Pegasuses, Typbons, Acbelous, and die Nymulis.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
The meaning of Plato unfolded, in what lie says about Pan, Tartarus, Prometheus, the Syrens.
CHAPTER XXXVII. A developement of Plato's theological conceptions respecting Nature, Fate, aod Fortune.
CHAPTER XXXVIH.
What Time, Day and Night, Month and Year are, so far as tbey are deities, according to the theology of Plato.
CHAPTER XXXIX. A discmsion of the order of divioe souls, who are deified by always participating of the Gods.
COMTIHTI. IWVS
CHAPTER XL.
A derelopement of the Rata re of Love, from the MS. Commentary of Proclus on the FurX Alcj-
CHAPTER XLI.
of the same subject.
CHAPTER XLII.
The nature of demon* more fully disclosed.— An extract from the MS. Commentary of Prod us on the First Alcibiades, on this subject.
CHAPTER XL1H.
On the daemons who are allotted the superintendence of mankind.
CHAPTER XUV.
On the daemon of Socrates.— The peculiarily^of this daemon ; and that it belonged to the Apolioniacal series.
CHAPTER XLV.
Important information concerning daemons from the MS. Scholia of Prod us on the Cralylus of Plato. — And also from the MS. Commentary of Olympiodorus on the Pluedo of Plato.
CHAPTER XLVI.
The nature of those human souls that are of an heroic characteristic unfolded. —What Plato says of these souls in the Cratylus.— His meaning elucidated from the MS. Scholia of Proclua on that dialogue.
CHAPTER XLVII.
How the triple genera that are the perpetual attendants of the Gods, are indicated in the Parma* nidea of Plato.
CHAPTER XLVIH.
Plato says of these souls in the Cratylus.— His meaning elucidated from the MS. Scholia of Proclua on that dialogue.
CHAPTER XLVII.
How the triple genera that are the perpetual attendants of the Gods, are indicated in the Parma* nidea of Plato.
CHAPTER XLVIH.
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An elucidation from Proclus of what Plato says in the Tinwus, in celebration of the divinity of die World, ao far as the whole of it is a God.
CHAPTER XLIX.
A further elucidation from Proclus of the same subject
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CHAPTER L.
Tfae atoning of the words of Plato, " And casing circle to revolve in a circle, he established heaven (i. e. the world) one, only, solitary nature," unfolded from Proclus.
CHAPTER hi.
Whit Plato says in the Timreus about the name of the World,— with the elucidations of Proclus.
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An explanation of certain terms which are unusual, or have a meaning different from their common acceptation, and which there was a necessity of introducing in the translation of this work.
Composite, fft/vtrrsc. 1 have used the word composite iiutcad of compounded, became the Utter rather denotes the mingling than the contiguous union of one thing with another, which the former, through its derivation from the Latin word compositui, solely denotes.
Demihrcus op wholes, &]/M«»fys; raw t*jm. The artificer of the universe is thus denominated, because be produces the universe so far as it is a whole, and likewise all the wholes it contains, by his own immediate energy ; other subordinate powers co-operating with him iu the production of parts. Hence he produces the universe totally and at once.
Dksire, twtfo/ua. Is an irrational appetite solely directed to external objecU, and to the gratification arising from the possession of them.
Diaxoia, hemm, from whence dionottic,\* the discursive energy of reason; (Swfofcxi) too Xsyw tvipyn*) or according to its most accurate signification, it is that power of the soul which reasons scientifically, deriving the principles of iu reasoning from intellect, or the power which sees truth intuitively.
Do x a stic, formed from !*£«, opinio*, is the last of the gnostic powers of the rational soul ; and knows thai a thing is, but is ignorant of the cause of it, or why it is. The knowledge of the fan, or a-Ay a thing is, being the province of dianoia.
CJn est, £«ef. This word, iu its more ample signification in the Greek, tleuolrs a »t ranger, but properly implies one »lip receives another, or is himself received at an entertainment.
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