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The Theology of Plato & Elements of Theology by Proclus

by Proclus

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

This PDF contains two Volumes of the writing of Proclus Lycaeus translated by Thomas Taylor. The following books are included: 1. The Six Books of Proclus on the Theology of Plato (also known as Platonic Theology) with a Seventh Book written by Thomas Taylor himself. (Vol.I pg.1) [Note: The 1995 Prometheus Trust reprint of this translation says that Book 3 Chapter 1 of the translation contains Chapters 1-4 from the original Greek. Chapter 2 contains the Greek chapters 5-6 and Chapter 3 contains the Greek Chapters 7-8. After that the Translated and Greek chapters match beginning at Chapter 9. This explains why there appears to be chapters missing from Book 3.] 2. Elements of Theology (Vol.II pg.300) 3. On Providence and Fate (Vol.II pg.442) 4. Extracts from Ten Doubts Concerning Providence (Vol.II pg.486) 5. Extracts from On the Subsistence of Evil (Vol.II Pg.499) Thomas Taylor passed away Nov 1, 1835 and both Volumes were published in 1816 making them Public Domain. Other websites have scanned versions of these two Volumes but I have found that they were all missing pages or extremely low quality. Pages 50 and 51 of Volume II were missing from the best scanned version I could find (which is presented here) so I added the missing pages from an alternate scanned version of the same Volume. This is why those two pages don't look as nice as the others. Thanks to Google and the University of Michigan for scanning these Volumes and Universal Theosophy for hosting the original PDF. A digital text version of the translation which appears to be missing parts of Book 6 Chapters 13 and 14 (found at pages 51 and 52 of volume 2 of the scanned print version) can be found here: https://archive.org/details/ProclusOnTheTheologyOfPlato-ElectronicEdition/page/n1 and also here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Six_Books_of_Proclus,_the_Platonic_Successor,_on_the_Theology_of_Plato

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