Dialogue

 1 Intro|         the work of design. The creator is like a human artist who
 2 Intro|   proceed.~TIMAEUS: Why did the Creator make the world?...He was
 3 Intro|        due proportion.~When the Creator had made the soul he made
 4 Intro|        had come into being, the Creator addressed them thus:— ‘Gods,
 5 Intro|       given these commands, the Creator remained in his own nature.
 6 Intro| elements of necessity which the Creator received in the world of
 7 Intro|      chaos were arranged by the Creator, and out of them he made
 8 Intro|      good of the whole. For the Creator knew that the belly would
 9 Intro|        Having this in view, the Creator mingled earth with fire
10 Intro|         certain parts which the Creator has made solely of flesh,
11 Intro|     with acute perceptions, the Creator would have given man a sinewy
12 Intro|       idea of good,’ is not the Creator himself, but not separable
13 Intro|     freedom or spontaneity. The Creator in Plato is still subject
14 Intro|      the archetype stand to the Creator himself? For the idea or
15 Intro|       if not by the will of the Creator? Or, how could there have
16 Intro|      was not? Or, how could the Creator have taken portions of an
17 Intro|          as creation—not as the creator. The old tradition of Parmenides
18 Intro|     compound was divided by the Creator in certain proportions and
19 Intro|       already spoken of God the creator, who made all things for
20 Intro|    dependent on the will of the creator. Instead of maintaining
21 Intro|        me tell you then why the Creator made this world of generation.
22 Timae|        created. The work of the creator, whenever he looks to the
23 Timae|        me tell you then why the creator made this world of generation.
24 Timae|       than the fairest; and the creator, reflecting on the things
25 Timae|      body, that he might be the creator of a work which was by nature
26 Timae| likeness of what animal did the Creator make the world? It would
27 Timae|         the perfect animal, the creator made not two worlds or an
28 Timae|      the four elements; for the Creator compounded the world out
29 Timae|         and by himself. For the Creator conceived that a being which
30 Timae|    himself against any one, the Creator did not think it necessary
31 Timae|        proportion.~Now when the Creator had framed the soul according
32 Timae|      truth.~When the father and creator saw the creature which he
33 Timae|      unlike. What remained, the creator then proceeded to fashion
34 Timae|        had come into being, the creator of the universe addressed
35 Timae|        evil in any of them, the creator sowed some of them in the
36 Timae|  self-inflicted evils.~When the creator had made all these ordinances
37 Timae|       in imitation of their own creator they borrowed portions of
38 Timae|      then subsisting, which the creator of the fairest and best
39 Timae|         elements. All these the creator first set in order, and
40 Timae|      divine, he himself was the creator, but the creation of the
41 Timae|        fleshy, except where the creator has made some part solely
42 Timae|       and cooled. Wherefore the creator formed the head hairy, making