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1001 3 | when occupied in prayers, pouring over scientific books, writing,
1002 5 | or Forgetfulness). His powerful memory never betrayed the
1003 17 | sympathy, which swayed him more powerfully than any other known man.
1004 32 | had seen, and the divine praise uttered about him.~
1005 32 | two persons were when he praised the names of Machaon and
1006 24 | psychic laziness, when his prayer-hour had not yet arrived because
1007 28 | He practiced the Chaldean prayer-meetings and conferences, and even
1008 19 | fatigues. He especially preached abstinence from animal food,
1009 10(2) | his mentor Syrianus who preceded him in the Platonic succession.~
1010 6 | to her, and practiced her precepts with the greatest enthusiasm.
1011 33 | not have their exact and precise memory.~If anyone desires
1012 29 | spite of everybody, so as to preclude any possibility of malicious
1013 26 | the interpretations of his predecessors into a compendium that cost
1014 26 | that the great Plutarch predicted to him that he would live
1015 38 | statement that he always preferred his Commentary on the Timaeus,
1016 4 | might say that they were the premonitions of the particular types
1017 13 | to speak, are a kind of preparatory initiation or lesser mysteries,
1018 30 | that he must as quickly prepare his house "because the Athenian
1019 11 | contrary!" Such are the presages,----to mention only a few
1020 12 | into his home, Syrianus presented him to the great Plutarch,
1021 10 | the gods of philosophy to preserve the school of Plato in its
1022 19 | many others, make this the pretext of a distraction, or of
1023 19 | when beaten down by it, a prey to atrocious sufferings,
1024 8 | descendant of an ancient Egyptian priestly caste, and who was so learned
1025 18 | it was, not only in his prime, but even also when he approached
1026 6 | man who was to become a prince of all sciences should be
1027 2 | Fortune which most people prize, and with which Chance most
1028 18 | higher virtues, let us now proceed to a different kind, the
1029 18 | lustrations, and of all other processes of purification, whether
1030 31 | to my courage to openly proclaim the truth of the matter.
1031 34 | and providence in general procured for this worthy man; we
1032 37 | death there were celestial prodigies, such as a solar eclipse
1033 18 | superior to them, because they produce a separation that is complete,
1034 5 | thorough, his ideas, that he produced and published, novel, and
1035 28 | booklet.~He had the power of producing rains by activating, at
1036 8 | than a student both by his proficiency and diplomacy.~
1037 12 | into his own home, made him profit as much as possible from
1038 15 | his residence became most profitable to him. For his guardian
1039 10 | in Alexandria, and having profited by their lessons according
1040 10 | divine symbols which clearly prognosticated the function which he was
1041 13 | and science. Through these prolonged and inspiring studies, to
1042 29 | became ill with a sickness pronounced incurable by the physicians.
1043 28 | had himself uttered verses prophetic about his own destiny.~When
1044 3 | possess the beauty of just proportions, but from his soul exuded
1045 17 | it, having received many propositions very favorable from the
1046 36 | contrary to respect and proprieties; but in a dream he saw Syrianus
1047 1 | composition of hymns in prose or verse; while others,
1048 33 | to relate in detail the protections and the advantages he received
1049 6 | was born in the town she protects and saves; and who, when
1050 33 | which he was particularly proud and happy, I would no doubt
1051 26 | ancestral virtues, which proved that he belonged to the
1052 34 | nay, nor even as says the proverb, the half of the whole,
1053 22 | 22. Provided with this sort of virtues,
1054 12 | Plato's Phaedo. After thus proving the student's aptitude for
1055 24 | off slumber, as a sort of psychic laziness, when his prayer-hour
1056 5 | ideas, that he produced and published, novel, and that he alone
1057 22 | branding them ridiculous puerilities. What however was contrary
1058 36 | desire, expressed to the pupil, in view of which Proclus
1059 17 | such a solicitude for his pupils and friends, and even for
1060 10 | of Plato in its truth and pureness. This was clearly demonstrated
1061 18 | of all other processes of purification, whether Orphic or Chaldean,4
1062 18 | there are certain political purifications which give order and beauty
1063 21 | faculties no longer resisted purificative justice, and the virtues
1064 10 | and who at this time was pursuing his studies here, came to
1065 12 | food, he advised him not to push this abstinence too far,
1066 28 | reincarnated soul of the Pythagorean Nicomachus.~
1067 15 | oblivion, even better than the Pythagoreans observed the inviolate command
1068 3 | bravery.~The third bodily quality he possessed is comparable
1069 16 | chosen avocations with zeal, questioning them, and examining all
1070 36 | threatening him for these questionings, and blamed him for harboring
1071 32 | at the temple and asked questions, they were told by the local
1072 30 | announced to him that he must as quickly prepare his house "because
1073 1 | should have been wise in quietly refraining from "jumping
1074 11 | conversation, and the moon, quitting her conjunction with the
1075 27 | him, in his commentaries, quoting the interpretations not
1076 28 | had the power of producing rains by activating, at the right
1077 19 | no more than touched the rational part, and that only lightly
1078 23 | all over his face spread rays of a divine illumination.~
1079 19 | read hymns, during which readings the suffering seemed appeased,
1080 25 | is imperturbable in its real essence. In short, as says
1081 23 | better would this have been realized if one had seen him, if
1082 21 | in good behavior in the realm of contingent things, and
1083 19 | still more surprising, he recalled all that he had heard read,
1084 30 | if he had been willing to receive the cares demanded by his
1085 17 | Proclus did not desire, and reciprocally.~
1086 19 | him apparently lose the recognition of persons around him.~When
1087 7 | announced his name, was easily recognized as Telesphorus.1 As he stood
1088 12 | two years; and, on dying, recommended him to his successor Syrianus
1089 12 | master advised Proclus to record the text of their conversations
1090 17 | friendship which are so rarely recorded among the ancients, that
1091 30 | he would have completely recovered his health if he had been
1092 28 | its immortal vibrations reechoes in the starry vaults!"~Besides,
1093 18(4) | sayings. Plotinus does not refer to them, but later neo-Platonists
1094 2 | large resources,----but I am referring to a complete and perfect
1095 1 | these requirements, I have reflected that even in the sacrifices
1096 1 | favorably heard. Moved by these reflections, and besides fearing to "
1097 24 | moments did his thought refrain from activity. So, after
1098 1 | they might believe that I refrained not from modesty, but from
1099 1 | have been wise in quietly refraining from "jumping over the ditch,"
1100 23 | troubles. Proclus however refused this offering.~
1101 21 | unto one's self, and in refusing to unite with the body to
1102 26 | the divinities.~It was in regard to this work, which took
1103 15 | were shaking his so well regulated life, without letting himself
1104 18(4) | were compiled during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (147-
1105 28 | convinced that his was the reincarnated soul of the Pythagorean
1106 15 | perfectly conceived what relates to the divinities. By doing
1107 14 | benefactions to his friends, relatives, and fellow citizens, in
1108 4 | nothingness of human life, and released him from the usual fear
1109 30 | from this moment on he felt relieved from his suffering; and
1110 18 | separation that is complete, relieving us from the leaden burdens
1111 13 | along with his own critical remarks, the doctrine which he heard
1112 17 | suggested some more efficacious remedy, and thus saved many sick
1113 31 | more fact worthy of being remembered, and that I cannot recall
1114 18 | world of generation, and removing the obstacles to our flight
1115 25 | whom political virtue has rendered good and able to live, but,
1116 15 | and by his suggestions rendering service to entire cities,
1117 32 | these words (for I will repeat the exact words uttered
1118 9 | of the lecture, Proclus repeated the whole lecture to his
1119 19 | suffering seemed appeased, and replaced by a sort of impassibility.
1120 33 | facts of this kind, and to report the particular devotion
1121 12 | man, as Proclus himself reported to me, ''Let him learn what
1122 19 | So far as possible, he repressed anger; rather, he did not
1123 16 | moment that he was giving a reprimand his tender and sympathetic
1124 16 | only with negligence, he reprimanded them severely, so that in
1125 36 | a dream he saw Syrianus reproaching and threatening him for
1126 14 | writings, and Plato's Laws and Republic. He was in this dilemma,
1127 36 | above, according to his own request, and carried by his friends,
1128 36 | Athenians, as he himself had requested; for more than any other
1129 1 | But, brushing aside these requirements, I have reflected that even
1130 25 | gods; for Proclus wished to resemble them, and not merely worthy
1131 32 | as to which god or gods resided in this place, and were
1132 15 | journey to Asia, where his residence became most profitable to
1133 15 | town interests, proposed resolutions of a great practical wisdom,
1134 29 | life, turned to his last resort, and ran to the philosopher'
1135 32 | said that voices really resounded there, that a table was
1136 2 | disposed of unusually large resources,----but I am referring to
1137 10 | so he might sit down to rest, and asked him to fetch
1138 30 | But he seemed to have been restrained by an ardent and even violent
1139 16 | 16. As a result of these sentiments he favored
1140 34 | greatness of his soul, the resultant of all his virtues. In short,
1141 34 | the actions and fortunate results of his theurgic virtues,
1142 12 | about diet, but the latter retorted to the old man, as Proclus
1143 15 | year's sojourn in Lydia he returned to Athens, guided by the
1144 32 | the local divinities to reveal their true and proper character
1145 22 | carry the narthex,"5 who revel therein. He on the contrary
1146 22 | foreign mythology, even those revelations which had been obscured
1147 18(4) | but later neo-Platonists revered them, including Proclus.~
1148 22 | any other if possible more reverend name.~Conforming all his
1149 15 | divine] Power which starts revolutions in this world, he left Athens
1150 27 | all the Orphic Myths and Rhapsodies.~
1151 4 | his parents, who were very rich, from passionate love for
1152 22 | set aside, branding them ridiculous puerilities. What however
1153 32 | men, of an extreme beauty, riding horses of great speed, who
1154 28 | rains by activating, at the right time, a particular rite,
1155 12 | want, by following this so rigid a diet; and afterwards,
1156 12 | Plutarch saw Proclus very rigidly abstaining from flesh food,
1157 13 | and on the science which rises above all these, theology.
1158 38 | him, others to become his rivals, and then were bound to
1159 3 | Secondly, his was a most robust constitution, which resisted
1160 8 | attended the lessons of Roman teachers, and rapidly made
1161 19 | the Gods [Cybele] by the Romans, and before them by the
1162 3 | profoundly had this health been rooted in Proclus ever since his
1163 28(8) | Strophalomancy or the use of rotating tops for divination.~
1164 18 | practiced this discipline, rude as it was, not only in his
1165 5 | disposition was opposed to rudeness and discourtesy; his taste
1166 26 | excessive austerity of his rule of life, his frequent ablutions,
1167 21 | and pure thought were the rulers, the lower faculties no
1168 14 | like the coaches who pace runners, exhorting him to direct
1169 1 | as the vulgar say, by rushing into this perilous undertaking.~
1170 29 | and it had not yet been sacked [by the Christians].~While
1171 10 | there existed there a place sacred to Socrates. Yet he begged
1172 36 | distinct space and offered a sacrifice to all the souls of the
1173 6 | the goddess, so that he sacrificed especially to her, and practiced
1174 1 | rather to fail this great sage; also, by my attitude, to
1175 2 | happiness which is allotted to sages, although that also he enjoyed
1176 35 | degrees 41 minutes ~Mars in Sagittarius at 29 degrees 50 minutes ~
1177 23 | close, Rufinus rose, and saluted him with respect, under
1178 19 | philosopher should watch over the salvation of not only a city, nor
1179 19 | respect. Every month he sanctified himself according to the
1180 19 | solemnity, and with much sanctity. He regularly observed the
1181 35 | at 17 degrees 29 minutes~Saturn in Taurus, at 24 degrees
1182 6 | the town she protects and saves; and who, when he reached
1183 29 | improvement,----for the Savior, being a divinity, swiftly
1184 18(4) | Zoroastrian influenced oracles and sayings. Plotinus does not refer
1185 3 | in prayers, pouring over scientific books, writing, conversing
1186 11 | for this very purpose, he scorned the oratorical theories
1187 18 | dipping himself into the sea without hesitation every
1188 24 | examined certain theories, and searched for ideas, which he later
1189 26 | he subjected to the most searching criticism, and he inserted
1190 13 | 13. During this season of less than two years,
1191 37 | daily weather mention a second one which was to occur exactly
1192 3 | them intact his life-long.~Secondly, his was a most robust constitution,
1193 33 | for Attis] and all the secret traditions related in her
1194 1 | of the same value. Some seek to show themselves worthy
1195 12 | successor he had long been seeking,----someone, namely, who
1196 | seeming
1197 33 | longer be troubled by those seemingly absurd lamentations [for
1198 5 | discourtesy; his taste was ever selective and the best in everything,
1199 21 | in returning unto one's self, and in refusing to unite
1200 5 | hesitation; he was always self-possessed, and had no business other
1201 30 | appearance. For being in a semi-waking condition, he saw a serpent9
1202 13 | mist, reason, freed from sensation, may cast firm glances into
1203 18 | irascible affections, and on sensual desires, and in general
1204 4 | His profound scorn for sensuality, and his inclination to
1205 16 | energy inspired by this sentiment nothing great might be accomplished
1206 16 | 16. As a result of these sentiments he favored the development
1207 36 | ancestors, collectively and separately; and, in another part of
1208 30 | semi-waking condition, he saw a serpent9 creeping around his head,
1209 17 | towards his most familiar servants, it appears from the last
1210 15 | his suggestions rendering service to entire cities, as he
1211 14 | the same time to render services to individuals, in all kinds
1212 26 | so vigorous; so after his seventieth year he began to decline
1213 3 | was twice or thrice during seventy-five completed years. Indeed,
1214 26 | very much weakened. The too severe, nay, excessive austerity
1215 16 | negligence, he reprimanded them severely, so that in fact he may
1216 19 | and transitorily. As to sexual pleasures, I think that
1217 15 | unleashed typhoons were shaking his so well regulated life,
1218 3 | carry as the oyster does his shell.~First, he possessed an
1219 23 | that his eyes filled with a shining splendor, and all over his
1220 11 | in his tracks, undid his shoes, and in plain sight of them
1221 3 | miraculous efflorescence which shone over his whole body, and
1222 6 | the greatest enthusiasm. Shortly after his birth, his parents
1223 28 | year, he so seemed to be shouting the following verses: "I
1224 1 | same value. Some seek to show themselves worthy of participating
1225 34 | during a perfect life he was showered with all other human and
1226 10 | but from the consecrated shrine itself, for the spring of
1227 31 | away. This was a divine sign that was really paeonic,10
1228 1 | an act of piety to remain silent, I alone among his friends,
1229 14 | affection for Proclus, so sincere a friend of religion that
1230 4 | abhorred, and he cherished sincerity and veracity. What else
1231 10 | there a moment, so he might sit down to rest, and asked
1232 29 | possibility of malicious slander, and the whole household
1233 31 | guidance on this subject, while sleeping he saw something that is
1234 29 | benefactor Theagenes, being still small, and being raised at her
1235 23 | which flew like flakes of snow. Then it seemed that his
1236 19 | he made use of them with sobriety, for to him they were no
1237 28 | faculty which was not merely social, he cared for those things
1238 19 | they were no more than a solace from his fatigues. He especially
1239 37 | celestial prodigies, such as a solar eclipse which caused nocturnal
1240 19 | celebrated the New Moon in great solemnity, and with much sanctity.
1241 13 | above all these, theology. Solidly outfitted with these studies,
1242 26 | began with Plato's ancestor Solon; and with zeal did he study
1243 31 | matter. So he seemed to see somebody who was returning from Epidaurus,11
1244 | something
1245 19 | night, without sleep, with songs, hymns and similar devotions.
1246 32 | Machaon and Podilarius [sons of Asklepius]?"~Thereupon
1247 22 | science, but rather wisdom, sophia, or any other if possible
1248 11 | philosopher, although his art in sophistry excited as much admiration
1249 29 | the Asklepius temple which Sophocles had immortalized, and of
1250 5 | always left him in a better soul-disposition than when they had met him.~
1251 3 | analogous, for justice is a soul-habit which hinders upsets of
1252 3 | which hinders upsets of the soul-parts, while health fosters order
1253 36 | traced out a third distinct space and offered a sacrifice
1254 31 | out on his bed, suddenly a sparrow halted in his flight and
1255 37 | center of Capricorn. The specialists who busy themselves with
1256 9 | possessed such a gift of speech, that he talked too rapidly
1257 32 | riding horses of great speed, who said that they were
1258 24 | like those of which we have spoken above does it consist of
1259 23 | splendor, and all over his face spread rays of a divine illumination.~
1260 28 | supercelestial, which has sprung from the consecrated spring,
1261 22(5) | wand. This was a wand or stalk (narthex) wrapped in ivy
1262 17 | very favorable from the standpoint of birth and fortune ----
1263 28 | vibrations reechoes in the starry vaults!"~Besides, in a dream
1264 4 | do not even allow a first start to the pleasures of gross
1265 15 | that [divine] Power which starts revolutions in this world,
1266 38 | will limit myself to the statement that he always preferred
1267 30 | to that herself when the statue of the goddess which had
1268 22 | without effort, and with a steady stride making constant progress
1269 28 | passing beyond the theoretic step, he did not conform his
1270 22 | observations in books.~For without stint did he give himself up to
1271 | stop
1272 11 | her celestial house ---- stopped in his tracks, undid his
1273 11 | youth who to them was a stranger. But, after having taken
1274 28 | consecrated spring, and whence streams a fiery light!"~At the beginning
1275 31 | a bandage. While he was stretched out on his bed, suddenly
1276 19 | the Egyptians even more strictly than did they themselves;
1277 22 | effort, and with a steady stride making constant progress
1278 19 | events would unexpectedly strike him, seeming to be contary
1279 19 | preservation, because it bears strong testimony to our philosopher'
1280 28(8) | the Chaldaean practice of Strophalomancy or the use of rotating tops
1281 11 | them adored the goddess. Struck by the free and bold action
1282 4 | particular types into which we subdivide virtue. According to Plato,
1283 22 | energetically discussed, submitting it to thorough-going criticism,
1284 36 | most easterly part of the suburbs, near Mount Lycabettus,
1285 16 | living pension, or other subventions suited to their deserts.
1286 36 | me with his lessons, to succeed as teacher;~This same tomb
1287 18 | actions by which the soul succeeds in separating itself, continually,
1288 2 | mathematically into regularly successive chapters; rather, as the
1289 29 | condition, and there occurred a sudden improvement,----for the
1290 31 | children; and as his father had suffered therefrom, Proclus had always
1291 38 | I have just related are sufficient for me; but the field is
1292 15 | magistrates of towns, and by his suggestions rendering service to entire
1293 23 | offered Proclus a large sum of money on his return from
1294 28 | immortal splendor, that is supercelestial, which has sprung from the
1295 19 | degree, and that only very superficially.~
1296 3 | not to mention the higher superhuman ones ---- we may begin with
1297 34 | addition enumerated those superiorities which he owed to his own
1298 1 | even in the sacrifices the suppliants at the altars present offerings
1299 32 | numerous testimonies, some supposed that it was a temple of
1300 18 | desires, and in general act to suppress passions, and false opinions,
1301 26 | that he had, he would be surprised about it, and would jokingly
1302 15 | a sort of vultures that surrounded him [i.e., certain Christians],
1303 23 | his lectures, saw a halo surrounding his head. At the close,
1304 18(4) | The 'Chaldaean oracles' survive only in fragments. They
1305 12 | of Proclus, the old man survived only two years; and, on
1306 15 | himself the object of the suspicions and vexations of a sort
1307 17 | trait of sympathy, which swayed him more powerfully than
1308 3 | philosophy, and to enjoy the sweetness of well-being. Our philosopher
1309 29 | Savior, being a divinity, swiftly gave her back her health.
1310 22 | apodictic and discursive syllogisms, but on what he could contemplate
1311 10 | arrival, and the really divine symbols which clearly prognosticated
1312 3 | discovered in a certain symmetry of its organic members.
1313 17 | to mention his trait of sympathy, which swayed him more powerfully
1314 3 | he did not recognize his symptoms, so rarely had he felt them.~
1315 13 | which he finally made a synoptic outline, making such progress
1316 26 | to explain to him and to Syrian Domninus, either one of
1317 26 | feebleness, Hegias induced him to take up his lectures again; from
1318 10 | lessons according to their talent and science, it seemed to
1319 9 | gift of speech, that he talked too rapidly and indistinctly,
1320 1 | had I not undertaken this task they might believe that
1321 16 | all the minutiae of their tasks, for he was an excellent
1322 5 | rudeness and discourtesy; his taste was ever selective and the
1323 33 | instructions mythically teach us about the goddess, and
1324 15 | had to weather terrible tempests, when all the unleashed
1325 23 | with respect, under oath testifying to the divine manifestation
1326 29 | wife of our benefactor Theagenes, being still small, and
1327 38 | for his Commentary on the Theatetus. He would often say, "If
1328 9 | undertaken as a favor to Theodorus, the Alexandrian governor,
1329 26 | writings of Plato and the other theologians.~The old man confided to
1330 | Thereupon
1331 3 | purifying, theoretic and theurgical,----not to mention the higher
1332 18(4) | by a certain Julianus the Theurgist, and consisted of Zoroastrian
1333 26(7) | Theurgy is the introduction of magic
1334 4 | was entirely foreign to thievery and meannesses, his soul
1335 32 | horsemen having vanished into thin air.~Proclus was therefore
1336 10 | said he, "I am dying of thirst." Nicholaus, very anxious,
1337 5 | fruitful, his knowledge thorough, his ideas, that he produced
1338 22 | discussed, submitting it to thorough-going criticism, in his lectures
1339 22 | ancient authors he studied thoroughly, and after having subjected
1340 29 | blessed man. From among thousands, I will mention but one,
1341 36 | Syrianus reproaching and threatening him for these questionings,
1342 27 | discouraged him therefrom with threats. Thinking of no other expedient,
1343 13 | Oracle, ''jumping over the threshold." So Syrianus led Proclus
1344 19 | Asklepius Leontuchus of Ascalon, Thyandrites who is much worshipped among
1345 22(5) | the initiates carried the thyrsus or Bacchic wand. This was
1346 4 | foreign to arrogance as to timidity.~
1347 10 | Socrates, Proclus felt himself tired of walking. Now he did not
1348 | together
1349 36 | succeed as teacher;~This same tomb has received our bodies,
1350 36 | dates he went to visit the tombs of the Attic heroes, those
1351 32 | hand, and in a dramatic tone, with great force uttered
1352 22(5) | with a pine-cone at the top.~
1353 4 | towards the universal and total in human and divine things.
1354 15 | writing to the magistrates of towns, and by his suggestions
1355 36 | all that, this holy person traced out a third distinct space
1356 11 | house ---- stopped in his tracks, undid his shoes, and in
1357 33 | Attis] and all the secret traditions related in her ceremonies.~
1358 17 | been led to mention his trait of sympathy, which swayed
1359 19 | and that only lightly and transitorily. As to sexual pleasures,
1360 31 | frequently, and even habitually transmitted from parents to children;
1361 8 | school in Lycia, and then traveled to Egyptian Alexandria,
1362 22 | criticism, in his lectures treating each one of these theories
1363 11 | alone and leisurely, they tried to dismiss the youth who
1364 28 | divinatory power of the tripod, and had himself uttered
1365 22 | the philosopher had no trouble in understanding the whole
1366 33 | that they will no longer be troubled by those seemingly absurd
1367 23 | Asia, after his political troubles. Proclus however refused
1368 2 | happiness enjoyed by this truly blessed man. For I believe
1369 9 | extensive. For mathematics, he trusted himself to Heron, a very
1370 23 | Rufinus, who was entirely trustworthy and honorable, while listening
1371 19 | sufferings, he was still trying to conjure the evil. He
1372 19 | the evil. He begged us in turn to read hymns, during which
1373 29 | gravest circumstances of life, turned to his last resort, and
1374 13 | progress that at the age of twenty-eight years, he had composed many
1375 12 | latter, on seeing this barely twenty-year-old youth, and on learning of
1376 31 | age without feeling even a twinge of this disorder.~
1377 4 | premonitions of the particular types into which we subdivide
1378 15 | when all the unleashed typhoons were shaking his so well
1379 9 | one of the other auditors, Ulpian of Gaza, who had also devoted
1380 4 | never unjust; gracious, un-covetous, never taking advantage,
1381 23 | thoughts pass, and who are unable to conceive more than a
1382 3 | cold, and which remained unaffected by irregularities, by his
1383 32 | air.~Proclus was therefore uncertain, and hardly knew what credit
1384 1 | rushing into this perilous undertaking.~But, brushing aside these
1385 15 | Nevertheless, sometimes he undertook to give political advice.
1386 11 | stopped in his tracks, undid his shoes, and in plain
1387 19 | when external events would unexpectedly strike him, seeming to be
1388 34 | virtues, and that to a degree unheard of for several centuries,
1389 38 | to him in philosophical union. A writer more laborious
1390 21 | self, and in refusing to unite with the body to acquire
1391 4 | ever directed towards the universal and total in human and divine
1392 4 | daily intercourse, never unjust; gracious, un-covetous,
1393 23 | author of many hitherto unknown theories, that were physical,
1394 15 | terrible tempests, when all the unleashed typhoons were shaking his
1395 4 | impress us with the pure and unmingled joys of the soul.~Love of
1396 15 | of their master, to "live unnoticed."~After no more than a year'
1397 28 | believer in these practices, in unpremeditated responses, and other such
1398 13 | distance.~By an intense and unresting labor by day and night,
1399 | unto
1400 33 | number and character are so unusual that I myself do not have
1401 3 | soul-habit which hinders upsets of the soul-parts, while
1402 28 | did he direct his thoughts upward to the divine, but by a
1403 17 | convoked the physicians and urged them without delay to apply
1404 | used
1405 13 | the Timaeus, written with utmost elegance and science. Through
1406 36 | died we] engraved on [the vacant part of the double monument]
1407 33 | no doubt seem chattering vainly, to those who may light
1408 32 | there, the horsemen having vanished into thin air.~Proclus was
1409 14 | himself superior to the vanity of wealth.~Proclus did indeed
1410 28 | vibrations reechoes in the starry vaults!"~Besides, in a dream he
1411 14 | of him, called him by the venerable name, "the most pious Archiadas."~
1412 35 | at 29 degrees 50 minutes ~Venus in Pisces, at 23 degrees ~
1413 4 | cherished sincerity and veracity. What else could be expected
1414 14 | believe that his knowledge was verbal only, and that he made no
1415 26 | belonged to the family of the veritable golden chain, which began
1416 12 | simultaneously grasping the divine verities.~
1417 1 | composition of hymns in prose or verse; while others, having nothing
1418 11 | Lachares, who was profoundly versed in the doctrines of the
1419 15 | object of the suspicions and vexations of a sort of vultures that
1420 28 | aether, and with its immortal vibrations reechoes in the starry vaults!"~
1421 29 | grandfather. It was in the vicinity of the Asklepius temple
1422 15 | while they through long vicissitudes had come to neglect certain
1423 36 | expressed to the pupil, in view of which Proclus had caused
1424 22 | with as much clearness as vigor, and recording all his observations
1425 22(5) | narthex) wrapped in ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone at the
1426 30 | restrained by an ardent and even violent desire for death, and I
1427 6 | Lycians, noble, and very virtuous. At birth he was welcomed
1428 22 | directly the really beatific visions from beyond, establishing
1429 36 | yearly dates he went to visit the tombs of the Attic heroes,
1430 22 | this labor hinder him from visiting other philosophers, from
1431 8 | the youth's natural mental vivacity and his manners, distinction
1432 32 | Asklepius; they said that voices really resounded there,
1433 4 | temperance. Never had he voluntarily told a lie; lies he abhorred,
1434 1 | over the ditch," as the vulgar say, by rushing into this
1435 15 | and vexations of a sort of vultures that surrounded him [i.e.,
1436 10 | Proclus felt himself tired of walking. Now he did not know, and
1437 12 | Let him learn what I want, by following this so rigid
1438 15 | administer justice generally.~He watched over the honorable character
1439 23 | so wise a mouth flowed in waves the words, which flew like
1440 16 | his anger would melt like wax. For at the very moment
1441 19 | heard read, even though the weakness which had overcome him had
1442 14 | superior to the vanity of wealth.~Proclus did indeed make
1443 10 | here, came to the harbor to welcome him, and to offer him hospitality,
1444 6 | virtuous. At birth he was welcomed by the Constantinopolitan
1445 12 | to the point of urgently welcoming him to his lessons of philosophy,
1446 3 | to enjoy the sweetness of well-being. Our philosopher preserved
1447 | whence
1448 28 | entrancing my reason in a whirl of flame, flies toward the
1449 | whoever
1450 16 | easily appeased, and in the winking of an eyelash his anger
1451 14 | flight; and yet he did not wish people to believe that his
1452 30 | because the Athenian Lady wishes to dwell with you."~How
1453 23 | manifestation of which he had been witness. It was this same Rufinus
1454 28 | had, as epoptic initiate, witnessed the apparitions of Hecate
1455 17 | friends, and even for their wives and children, that he was
1456 30 | thought he saw coming to him a woman of great beauty, who announced
1457 36 | Syrianus's death, Proclus wondered whether this was not contrary
1458 18 | purificatory practices which woo us from evil, of lustrations,
1459 5 | politeness and affability both in worldly gatherings, religious banquets,
1460 1 | modesty, but from laziness, or worse.~
1461 19 | but where you also see worship of the god Marnas of Gaza,
1462 22 | sleep; and further, from worshipping the sun at dawn, noon, and
1463 1 | Proclus's high-mindedness and worth, the multitude of documents
1464 22(5) | wand or stalk (narthex) wrapped in ivy and vine-leaves with
1465 3 | clearly seen in his exterior wrapper, which we carry as the oyster
1466 38 | for whoever may desire to write an honest story about his
1467 38 | in philosophical union. A writer more laborious than I will
1468 2 | follow the example of most writers by dividing up my subject
1469 | Yes
1470 27 | books. He was kind enough to yield, and wrote certain notes
1471 24 | daily labors, and while he yielded his body to slumber, not
1472 4 | courageous.~This illustrates his youthful love of justice: honorable
1473 17 | visited the patient with a zealous solicitude, convoked the
1474 18(4) | Theurgist, and consisted of Zoroastrian influenced oracles and sayings.
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