The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, in Five Books

The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, in Five Books
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586
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0217623271
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General Books LLC

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: partial conceptions, and the enunciative or unfolding into light. But from the Socratic philanthropy, the sociable, the mild, the demonstrative, the contemplating beings through images, the ethical, and every thing of this kind. Hence it is a venerable dialogue ; forms its conceptions supernally from the first principles ; and mingles the demonstrative with the enunciative. It also prepares us to understand physics, not only physically, but likewise theologically. ForNature herself who is the leader of the universe, being suspended from, and inspired by the Gods, governs the corporeal-formed essence. And she neither ranks as a Goddess, nor is without a divine peculiarity, but is illuminated by the truly-existing Gods. If, likewise, it be requisite that discourses should be assimilated to the things of...

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