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2019-06-20 NSPRM - Proclus - Theology of Plato (Book 5, Chapters 17 and 18)

Original Location https://archive.org/details/20190620NSPRM Usage License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License Please Help Support the Project Like these videos? Please consider supporting Pierre, the NS, and our archiving activity by giving a small amount monthly to support our work. Go to noeticsociety.org and the 'Support the Project' section. Look for the Paypal or other link. We'd love it if you chose to 'Make this a monthly donation', as well -- rather than just one-time -- in whatever small amount is within your regular monthly budget. Thank you! Synopsis Pierre leads the Noetic Society Parmenides study group through another session of study. Lately we've been taking a break from the Parmenides, going through Proclus' Theology of Plato (*) instead, in order to see how Proclus lays out the 14 orders of gods implied in the Parmenides. Today we read the end of Book 5 Chapter 17 and about half of Chapter 18. At the end, Pierre wrote a challenge for us all for next week on the chart. It reads “Argue against: Our cosmos is in a tragic mess because we have been made/constructed by secondary ‘Junior’ gods.” He said we should be able to do so if we understand chapters 17 and 18. Att

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