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Depth, and in the Adytum of God nourished silence.
Proc. in Tim., 167. T.
13. All things have issued from that one Fire. The Father perfected all things, and delivered them over to the Second
Mind, whom all Nations of Men call the First.
Psellus, 24; Pletho, 30. Z.
14. The Second Mind conducts the Empyrean. World .
Damascius, De Principiis. T.
15. What the Intelligible saith, it saith by understanding.
Psellus, 35. Z.
16. Power is with them, but Mind is from Him.
Proclus in Platonis Theologiam, 365. T.
17. The Mind of the Father riding on the subtle Guiders, which glitter with the tracings of inflexible and relentless
Fire.
Proclus on the Cratylus of Plato.
18. & After the Paternal Conception I the Soul reside, a heat animating all things. & For he placed the Intelligible in
the Soul, and the Soul in dull body, Even so the Father of Gods and Men placed them in us.
Proclus in Tim., Plat., 124. Z. or T.
19. Natural works co-exist with the intellectual light of the Father. For it is the Soul which adorned the vast Heaven,
and which adorneth it after the Father, but her dominion is established on high.
Proclus in Tim., 106. Z. or T.
Dominion, krata: some copies give kerata, horus.
20. The Soul, being a brilliant Fire, by the power of the Father remaineth immortal, and is Mistress of Life, and filleth
up the many recesses of the bosom of the World.
Psellus, 28; Pletho, 11. Z.
21. The channels being intermixed therein she performeth the works of incorruptible Fire.
Proclus in Politica, p. 399. Z. or T.
22. For not in Matter did the Fire which is in the first beyond enclose His active Power, but in Mind; for the framer of
the Fiery World is the Mind of Mind.
Proclus in Theologiam, 333, and Tim., 157. T.
23. Who first sprang from Mind, clothing the one Fire with the other Fire, binding them together, that he might
mingle the fountainous craters, while preserving unsullied the brilliance of His own Fire.
Proclus in Parm. Platonis. T.
24. And thence a Fiery Whirlwind drawing down the brilliance of the flashing flame, penetrating the abysses of the
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Universe; for from thence downwards do all extend their wondrous rays.
Proclus in Theologiam Platonis, 171 and 172. T.
25. The Monad first existed, and the Paternal Monad still subsists.
Proclus in Euclidem, 27. T.
26. When the Monad is extended, the Dyad is generated.
Proclus in Euclidem, 27. T.
Note that "What the Pythagoreans signify by Monad, Duad and Triad, or Plato by Bound, Infinite and Mixed; that the
Oracles of the Gods intend by Hyparxis, Power and Energy."
Damascius De Principiis. Taylor.
27. And beside Him is seated the Dyad which glitters with intellectual sections, to govern all things, and to order
everything not ordered.
Proclus in Platonis Theologiam, 376. T.
28. The Mind of the Father said that all things should be cut into Three, whose Will assented, and immediately all
things were so divided.
Proclus in Parmen. T.
29. The Mind of the Eternal Father said into Three, governing all things by Mind.
Proclus, Timaeus of Plato. T.
30. The Father mingled every Spirit from this Triad.
Lydus, De Mensibus, 20. Taylor.
31. All things are supplied from the bosom of this Triad.
Lydus, De Mensibus, 20. Taylor.
32. All things are governed and subsist in this Triad.
Proclus in I. Alcibiades. T.
33. For thou most know that all things bow before the Three Supernals.
Damascius, De Principiis. T.
34. From thence floweth forth the Form of the Triad, being preexistent; not the first Essence, but that whereby all
things are measured.
Anon. Z. or T.
35. And there appeared in it Virtue and Wisdom, and multiscient Truth.
Anon. Z. or T.
36. For in each World shineth the Triad, over which the Monad ruleth.
Damascius in Parmenidem. T.
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37. The First Course is Sacred, in the middle place courses the Sun,* in the third the Earth is heated by the internal
fire.
Anon. Z. or T.
*Jones gives Sun from Hellos, but some Greek versions give Herios, which Cory translates, air.
38. Exalted upon High and animating Light, Fire, Ether and Worlds.
Simplicius in his Physica, 143. Z. or T.
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