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I, foul, refide after the paternal cogitations, 
hot, and animating’ all things: for the Father 
of gods and men placed our intellect in foul, 
but foul he depofited in fluggith body. 
Concerning natural productions, and 
the foul of the world: 
 Suvudicata: yuo se guoins 
peyyet 
Tou aelpos. Luyn YOR N MIOpnTHOM Toy LEyay 
Ovpewvovs ner xooprouee pera Tou Tetlooc. 
Kroula de & wutas egnoinlas aww. 
‘ : Procl. in Tim. p. 106. 
Natural productions confubfit in the intel- 
le€tual light of the father. For it is foul which 
has adorned the mighty heaven, and which 
adorns it in conjuntion with the Father. But 
her horns are eftablifhed on high. 
Concerning Nature : 
Apyet Sav duos aneprarn xoopuuy Teh ELyWYs 
Ovoayas edga Hest dooproy cicioy AOTATYOWY. 
* x, oTWS HY mb MADCEL TMEpLgdus MANOWY TELA MALOU y 
TEANVNSy WOWP, VURTOS, MILECDLC. 
Procl. in Tim. p. 4 & 323. 
Unwearied nature rules over the worlds and 
works, and draws downward, that heaven may 
run an eternal courfe ; and that the other pe- 
riods of the fun, moon, the feafons, night and 
day, may be accomplifhed. 
Kat rayys nehsos TEL HEVT VOY OMWE rac erie. 
And that the fwiit fun may as ufual revolve 
about the centre.’ i 
Mn pugsy eePreLere etyreoprsvov ovyane cng ee 
Procl. in Plat. Theol. p. 317. 
You fhould not look upon Nature, for her 
name is fatal (1). ; 
Concerning the light above the empy- 
rean world: 
Ey gourw yao To 
; 
reye Tw yorow 
Tunwre Tumovcbas. 
Simplic. in Phyf, p. 143. 
In this light, things without figure become 
figured, 
Concerning the univerfe : 
Nov yoo ilyaniw Tedet, to de Tey Oey TL cwuE= 
TOS EY Et. Procl. in Tim. p. 87. 
It is an imitation of intelle€&, but that which 
is fabricated poffeffes fomething of body. 
Supsbora Y%O Marrin0g yooo egmeioey tare 
HOT [LOY « 
The paternal intelle€t difleminated fymbols 
through the world. 
“Concerning the. compofition of the 
world from the four elements, by the 
Demiurgus. 
Tov oAov noo prov Et Mupog, % vdweros, % C9 
Kat may roreopou aiPprc mores. 
He made the whole world from fire, water, 
earth, and all-nourithing air, 
O moinrng 05 av Toupywy TEXTMWVTO TOV UOT/LOVe 
Kas Tig mucos oynoc env etepoc. Tacs mayre 
AU TOUPYUN, iy TwLe To HOT ALMDY EXTUAOTEVEN, 
Keapioc +7’ EueHAO7 % en Pew vysemdec. 
Procl. in Tim, p. 154. 
a ed RR ae A a es 
(1) This alludes to the intimate conneétion 
between Fate and Nature, For Fate, as we 
have before obferved, is the full perfeGion of 
_ thofe divine illyminations which are qpccived 
by Nature, oe 
Oracles by Theurgifis, or Zoroafter. 
leaders of the air. 
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The artificer who, felf- operating, fabricated 
the world. “And there was, alfo another mafs 
of fire. All thefe he produced, felf-operating, 
that the mundane body might be conglobed, 
that the-world might become manife(t, and that 
it might not appear membranous (2). 
Concerning the feven firmaments, the 
heavens, heavenly bodies, zther, air, 
earth, and water: 
Enle yao eLoynwre matna ceoewpcles LOT LAWYs 
Tov oupevoy xvety oy mers Beettcrac. 
Damate. in Parmenid, 
The Father gave bulk to the feven firma- 
ments of the worlds, and inclofed the heavens 
in a convex figure, 
Ennfe de & modu: otdoy ace-wy weary, 
Mn taces eminoyw TONE « 
Ting 02 mravny ovx exouen pecea bat. 
To Tua po¢ To TUE ayayuacas. 
Procl. in Tim. p. 280. 
He eftablithed the numerous multitude of 
inerratic ftars, not by a laborious and evil ten- 
fion, but with a ftability void of a wandering 
motion; for this purpofe compelling fire to 
fire. 
EZ avroue (planetas) umecncey, eSopnoy nehiow 
Miceyfornca; mupe  Procl. in Tim, p. 2860, 
He made the planets fix in number, and for 
the feventh, he hurled into the midi the fire 
“of the fun. 
To atexloy avtwy evtaxlis ceveenpenecag 
Cuvee. i 
He fufpended the difordered motion of the 
planets in orderly difpofed zones. 
AiGeotoc re Cpopeor, % ponyng emr<loc O2/4n» 
Hecios ve eos. Procl. in Tim. p. 257. 
The ethereal courfe, and the immenfe im- 
petus of the moon, and the serial ftreams, 
AiOno, nrvey TyEvinw CzAnINS, CLEQOS Cy Ob. 
Procl. in Tim. p.257. 
O zxther, fun, fpirit of the moon, and ye 
4 
HAtenwy Tt LUXAWY, % [ANVELCWY MOVE bo LAU 
’ KoAwwy re NEO» 
AsJong pegs, nediou Te penne ay slwy NTENEDIG. 
Procl. in Tim. p. 257. 
Of the folar circles, the lunar rattlings, and 
the aerial bofoms. The portion of zther, of 
the fun, of the rivers, of the moon, and of 
the air. : 
Kat mharug anoy prnvetog re doopeog wt moos 
NEALOLD. Procl.in Tim, Piz 7. 
The broad air, the lunar courfe, and the pole 
of the fun. 
Ive mrvgos eLoy reves 
Ke: Hues Terrace. 


Procl. in Tim. p. 141. 
The fun is a fire, which is the channel of 
fice; and it is the difpenfator of fire. 
Zwuy de Gravwprevuy vOrcnney exluda. 
He conftituted: the heptad of wandering ani- 
mals, ee 
Tay ey prerw tiPercy udwe o’sy yates HOATOLE 
Hoe VavwGev routwy. 
(2) As every deity is a /elf-perfee? unity, all 
things muft be as much as poffible united: for 
union writ neceffarily be the offspring of unity, 
Placing 
