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Proclus and Taylor, Thomas
How divine number adorns all beings. And what the powers in it are which are symbolically delivered from the division of number.
CHAPTER XXX.
How Parmenides has delivered the feminine and generative peculiarity [of first number] in what he says concerning number.
CHAPTER XXXI.
How we may discover in what is delivered concerning number, the triadic division of the summit of intelligibles and intellectuals.
CHAPTER XXXII.
Whether it is proper to place number prior to animal itself, or in animal itself, or posterior to it.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Whence Parmenides begins to speak about number. How far he proceeds in what he says about it. And how he unfolds the different orders in it.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
What the unknown is in divine numbers. What the generative is in them. And admonitions of these things from what is elsewhere said by Plato concerning numbers.
CHAPTER XXXV.
How Parmenides delivers the middle order of intelligibles and intellectuals through the one, whole, and finite. And what the peculiarities are of these.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Whence Parmenides begins to speak about this order. And how far he proceeds in what he says about it. How he likewise unfolds the three monads in it conformably to what is said in the Phædrus concerning them.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
How Parmenides delivers the third order of intelligibles and intellectuals. And how he unfolds the perfective peculiarity, and triadic division of it.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
An admonition what the union is of the three intelligible and intellectual triads, from the conclusions of Parmenides.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
How many theological dogmas we may assume, through the order of the conclusions delivered by Parmenides in his discourse concerning the intelligible and intellectual Gods.
CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK V.
CHAPTER I.
How the intellectual orders proceed from the intelligible and intellectual Gods. And according to what peculiarities they subsist.
CHAPTER II.
What the division is of the intellectual Gods. And the progression according to hebdomads in this order of Gods.
CHAPTER III.
Who the three intellectual fathers are according to Plato. What the three undefiled monads are. And who the seventh deity is, that is co-arranged with the two triads.
CHAPTER IV.
How from the writings of Plato, the procession of the intellectual Gods into seven hebdomads may be collected by a reasoning process.
CHAPTER V.
Who the mighty Saturn is, according to the theology in the Cratylus. And how he is in a certain respect intelligible, and in a certain respect intellectual. In which also, the dogmas are discussed concerning the union of intellect with the intelligible, and its separation from it.
CHAPTER VI.
What the kingdom of Saturn is. In what manner it is delivered by Plato in the Politicus. And of what it is the cause to the world, to the mundane Gods, and to partial souls.
CHAPTER VII.
What the Saturnian life of souls is. And what peculiarities of this circulation the Elean Guest delivers.
CHAPTER VIII.
How souls are said to be nourished by intelligibles. And what the difference is of the nutriment derived from different intelligibles.
CHAPTER IX.
What the orders are which the mighty Saturn causes to preside over wholes. In which also, who the Saturnian intellect is that is delivered in the Gorgias is unfolded.