PROCLUS & MARINUS TRANSLATED BY A. C. IONIDES, - Divine Arithmetic & the Elements of Theology & the Life of Proclus.

Sacred Science Institute, 2006. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall, Hardcover, Hard Cover Maroon Suede Guilt, No Jacket, New. ¶ Exact Facsimile Reprint of Original Edition Published:Tr.1897. Circa 450 A.D. 130p; Circa 590 A.D. One Of The Most Profound Works On Platonic Or Pythagorean Arithmetic, Universal Order & Cause & Effect, From The Level Of Most Divine Abstraction. Arithemetic Is The First And Most Refined Aspect Of The Universal Emmenation, Said By Pythagoras To Be The First Step In The Cosmological Unfolding Of The Quadrivium: Arithemetic - Geometry - Music - Astronomy. Proclus Is One Of The Greatest Authors Of The Neo-Platonic Tradition, A Mystic, Cosmologist & Philosopher, Equal Even To Plato In Profundity And Subtlety! Contents: Unity & Plurality; One & Not One; Concerning A Unit; Concerning Producer & Production; Concerning The Foremost Good; That Which Is Free & Self-Sufficient; Cause; The Immovable & Self-Moving Principle, Or Cause; Incorporeal Essence; Mind Is Not The First Cause; The Imparticipable; Perfection; Progression; Circular Movement; Cause & Effect; Multiplication & Reversion Through Progression; Self-Subsistence; Concerning The Eternal With A View To Shewing That The World Is Eternal; Time & Eternity; Subsistence In Time; Every Cause Exists Prior To Effect, & Is Subsequently The Subsistence Of More Causes; Simple Superior Or Inferior To Composite; Divisible & Indivisible Powers; Monad Underlies A Double Number; Being & Cause; Universal Order; Universal Causes; Potential & Actual Being; Begotten Of Two-Fold Power; Every Separate Cause, Is Everywhere, & At The Same Time Nowhere; Every Leading Cause , With Respect To Every Series, Transmits Its Properties To The Whole Order; Every Series Of Whole Extends To An Imparticipable Cause & Origin; "The Partial Of An Order Can Participate The Monad In The Proximate Subsisting Disposition, In A Two-Fold Manner - Either Through The Cognate Therein, Co-Ordinate Thereto"(Wow); Every Divine Number Is Unique; The Supreme Of Every Divine Order Are Like The Last Of The Order Above; Threefold Nature Of Divine Order; Every Intellectual Number Is Limited; Everything Participating Time, Is Ever Moved & Measured By Periods; Every Period Of Spirit Is Measured In Time; Ratios; Glossary. Part II: The Life Of Proclus By Marinus Has Been Added As A Background Of The Life Of This Great Neo-Platonic Philosopher. Very Highly Recommended!