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  • 1. - It is necessary, prior to all other things, that we should know something manifest concerning prayer.
  • 2. - The sum of what is said by Porphyry on this subject.
  • 3. - The divine Iamblichus.
  • 4. - Arguments concerning prayer which accord with the doctrine of Plato.
  • 5. - To the conversion to the Gods prayer is of the greatest utility.
  • 6. - Requirements to a perfect and true prayer.
  • 7. - The particulars which ought first to be known concerning prayer.
  • 8. - The causes of prayer. 
  • 9. - The modes of prayer.
  • 10. - All who in the least degree participate of temperance always invoke divinity in the impulse to every undertaking, whether it be small or great
  • 11. - Whether the universe was generated, or is without generation
  • 12. - The division of male and female comprehends in itself all the plenitudes of the divine orders
  • 13. - The distinction between beings and things generated
  • 14. - What is perpetual being, and what is that which is generated
  • 15. - Intelligence, reason, opinion and sense
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  • Prometheus Trust: with the edition of Commentarties on the Timaeus of Plato by Proclus, translated by Thomas Taylor.


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