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2015-11-11 NSPRM - Proclus - Commentary on Plato's Parmenides - How Important Is the Invocation?

Dialogue(s): commentary-on-parmenides Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, David, Regina Proclus' Introductory Invocation to his commentary: I pray to all the gods and goddesses to guide my mind in this study that I have undertaken--to kindle in me a shining light of truth and enlarge my understanding for the genuine science of being; to open the gates of my soul to receive the inspired guidance of Plato; and in anchoring my thought in the full splendour of reality to hold me back from too much conceit of wisdom and from the paths of error by keeping me in intellectual converse with those realities from which alone the eye of the soul is refreshed and nourished, as Plato says in the Phaedrus (246e-251b). I ask from the intelligible gods fullness of wisdom, from the intellectual gods the power to rise aloft, from the supercelestial gods guiding the universe an activity free and unconcerned with material inquiries, from the gods to whom the cosmos is assigned a winged life, from the angelic choruses a true revelation of the divine, from the good daemons an abundant filling of divine inspiration, and from the heroes a generous, solemn, and lofty disposition. So may all the orders of divine bei

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