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2018-09-14 NSPRM - Proclus - Theology of Plato (Book 1, Chap 14, Sec's 70-72) - How All of the Higher Things Relate to Providence

Dialogue(s): theology-of-plato Chapters: book1;chap14 Sections: sec70-72 Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, Regina, JulieH, Eldar, JeffS Synopsis The NS morning Parmenides study group reads another couple of pages of Proclus' Theology of Plato (*), with Pierre guiding. Tough, but fun! Issues Cause, Motion, Being, Life Cause is never visible Unity: a different kind of cause than the others Has Proclus specified what the "psychical gods" and/or the "intellectual gods" are? (just two of several "I.O.U's" from Proclus) Cause and responsibility/culpability Receiving into themselves (or "into Selves") the presence of union PG: The Greeks take describing things not as we would (i.e., describing appearances and co-appearances [correlations and patterns] of measurable/physical/material phenomena). Instead, for them, the act of describing things is the act of identifying causes . Providence all the way down from the top, with succeedingly lower and lower levels receiving their form of providence -- all invisibly the gods ruling from the stern of the ship, which got us into looking up Greek triremes : The video Barbara found of a replica Greek trireme which we were looking at: SeaTrials of the Trire

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