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"Commentary
on the Timaeus of Plato" by Proclus: Excepts from this book with the
following topics: It is necessary, prior to all other things, that we should
know something manifest concerning prayer; The sum of what is said by Porphyry
on this subject; The divine Iamblichus; Arguments concerning prayer which
accord with the doctrine of Plato; To the conversion to the Gods prayer
is of the greatest utility; Requirements to a perfect and true prayer;
The particulars which ought first to be known concerning prayer; The causes
of prayer; The modes of prayer; All who in the least degree participate
of temperance always invoke divinity in the impulse to every undertaking,
whether it be small or great; Whether the universe was generated, or is
without generation; The division of male and female comprehends in itself
all the plenitudes of the divine orders; The distinction between beings
and things generated; What is perpetual being, and what is that which is
generated; Intelligence, reason, opinion and sense.
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