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2018-10-10 NSPRM - Proclus - Theology of Plato (Book 1 Chaps 28-9; Book 2 Chap 1) - To Venerate Even the Ultimate Echoes of the Gods

Dialogue(s): theology-of-plato Chapters: book01;chap28;chap29;book02;chap01 Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, JulieH Synopsis Pierre works with the NS Parmenides study group (today only Barbara and JulieH) finishing up the last two chapters of Book 1 of Proclus' Theology of Plato(*) , and getting a taste for where Book 2 will be taking us. Highlights 0:00:30 Translation in Chapter 27 issue Discussion of two words in Chapter 27. This is the quote end of the first paragraph and beginning of the second in Chapter 27 (section 119/line7) "The uniform, therefore, pertains to the same thing as the divine; but the indissoluble to the same thing as the immortal; and that which has an invariable sameness of subsistence we must refer to the intelligible. And do you not see how these are severally after a manner co-adapted to each other?" And then Pierre linked it to the last of the last paragraph of Chapter 28: " For to produce, to contain, and to defend, pertain to the cause of bound. But others are assimilated to the maternal cause, and are prolific, and vivific, and the suppliers of motion, of the multiplication of powers, of variety and progressions." 0:09:00 -- chapter 28 IOU: "Cause of bound"

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