CHAPTER IX. More manifest admonitions of the same things from what is said in the Gorgias, and in the Cratylus. CHAPTER X. Who the three demiurgi are, and what order they have with reference to each other. Likewise what their progressions are, and their divisions about the world. CHAPTER XI. What the vivific triad is among the ruling Gods. And whence we may derive auxiliaries from the writings of Plato concerning the union and division of this triad. CHAPTER XII. What the convertive triad of the ruling Gods is; and what the monad which it contains. In which also, the union of Apollo with the sun is demonstrated; and it is shewn, how from what is said about Apollo we may be led to the theory of the solar orders. CHAPTER XIII. What the undefiled order is of the ruling Gods. And how from the writings of Plato conceptions about it may be obtained. CHAPTER XIV. How Parmenides forms his conclusions about the ruling Gods, in continuity with the demiurgic order. And that he characterizes the whole order of them, through similitude and dissimilitude. CHAPTER XV. What the supermundane and at the same time mundane genus of Gods is. And how through their own medium they preserve the continuity of the Gods that procced from the demiurgus. CHAPTER XVI. How the liberated Gods are characterized. And how from their liberated peculiarity they are exempt from the universe, and are co-arranged with the mundane Gods. CHAPTER XVII. What the common powers, and what the common energies are of the liberated Gods, according with the essence that has been delivered of them. Concerning the mother of the Fates mentioned in the Republic. Likewise concerning the triad of the Fates. What orders they have with reference to each other. What powers of them are delivered through divine symbols. What their energies are. And how Plato characterizes How Parmenides forms his conclusions concerning the liberated Gods immediately after the assi- On the division, and allotments of the mundane Gods. CHAPTER III. That the mundane do not differ from the supermundane Gods in habitudes to bodies, &c.—That the providence of the Gods is not circumscribed by place. That it pervades all things, and like the light of the sun, fills whatever is capable of receiving it. CHAPTER IV. After what manner the visible celestial orbs are Gods.-That a celestial body is eminently allied to the incorporeal essence of the Gods.-That the visible are connected with the intelligible Gods. And that the perfectly incorporeal are united to the sensible Gods, through the essence of each being characterized by the one. CHAPTER V. The nature of the mundane Gods unfolded from the speech of the Demiurgus to them, in the Timæus. And what the whole conception of the speech is according to Proclus. CHAPTER VI. What the demiurgus effects in the multitude of mundane Gods by the first words of his speech.That the words of the Demiurgus are addressed to the composite from soul and animal, viz. to the animal which is divine and partakes of a soul.--The meaning of the words, " Of whom I am the demiurgus and father," &c. CHAPTER VII. The meaning of the words unfolded in the speech of the Demiurgus, "Every thing therefore which is bound is dissoluble, but to be willing to dissolve that which is beautifully harmonized and well composed, is the province of an ill nature." CHAPTER VIII. The following part of the speech of the Demiurgus to the mundane Gods unfolded.-The difference between the primarily and secondarily immortal, and the primarily and secondarily indissoluble. And that the mundane Gods are neither primarily immortal, nor primarily indissoluble. CHAPTER IX. That part of the speech of the Demiurgus unfolded, in which he says to the mundane Gods, "Learn now therefore what I say to you indicating my desire." CHAPTER X. The developement of the remaining part of the speech of the Demiurgus. Proc. Vol. I. k CHAPTER XI. Who the junior Gods are, and why they are thus called. CHAPTER XII. Farther important particulars respecting the fabrication of the mundane Gods, collected from the Timæus, and unfolded. CHAPTER XIII. Continuation of the developement of these particulars. CHAPTER XIV. The peculiarities of the celestial Gods separately discussed.-Why the one sphere of the fixed stars comprehends a multitude of stars, but each of the planetary spheres convolves only one star. And that in each of the planetary spheres, there is a number of satellites, analogous to the choir of the fixed stars, subsisting with proper circulations of their own. CHAPTER XV. The nature of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and the Sun unfolded. CHAPTER XVI. Extract from the Oration of the Emperor Julian to the Sovereign Sun. CHAPTER XVII. Extract from the MS. 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 the Muses unfolded from the above MS. Scholia. CHAPTER XIX. The nature of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, unfolded. The manner in which each of the seven planetary divinities becomes an animal, and is suspended from a more divine soul; and what kind of perfection it affords to the universe. CHAPTER XX. That all the celestial Gods are 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 the abundant difference in secondary natures. CHAPTER XXI. spear The nature of Minerva unfolded from the Commentaries of Proclus on the Timæus.-The and shield with which this Goddess, in the statues of her, is represented as armed, explained from Iamblichus.-And observations respecting the mundane allotment of this Goddess. CHAPTER XXII. The nature of the great mundane divinity, the earth, unfolded from Proclus on the Timæus of Plato. CHAPTER XXIII. The manner in which the earth is said to be the most ancient, and the first of the Gods within the heavens, explained. CHAPTER XXIV. On the essence of the sublunary deities.-What Plato says of them in the Timæus 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 dæmoniacal order. And that about each of the fabricators of generation, there is a co-ordinate angelical, dæmoniacal, and heroical multitude, which retains the appellation of its producing monad. CHAPTER XXVII. What Pythagoras says in the Sacred Discourse.-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 why he does so. CHAPTER XXVIII. On the two principles Heaven and Earth.-What each of them is; and particularly concerning the power of Heaven. CHAPTER XXIX. The whole theory of Earth unfolded.—And also the theory of Ocean and Tethys.-That the causes of these are in the intellectual Gods, and likewise in the sensible universe, |