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Who the junior Gods are, and why they are thus called.

Farther important particulars respecting the fabrication of the mundane Gods, collected from the Timæus, and unfolded.

Continuation of the developement of these particulars.

The peculiarities of the celestial Gods separately discussed.—Why the one sphere of the fixed stars comprehends a multitude of stars, but each of the planetary spheres convolves only one star.—And that in each of the planetary spheres, there is a number of satellites, analogous to the choir of the fixed stars, subsisting with proper circulations of their own.

The nature of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and the Sun unfolded.

Extract from the Oration of the Emperor Julian to the Sovereign Sun.

Extract from the MS. Scholia of Proclus on the Cratylus of Plato concerning Apollo, in which the principal powers of the God are unfolded.

The nature of the Muses unfolded from the above MS. Scholia.

The nature of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, unfolded.—The manner in which each of the seven planetary divinities becomes an animal, and is suspended from a more divine soul; and what kind of perfection it affords to the universe.

That all the celestial Gods are beneficent, and after a similar manner the causes of good.—And that the participation of them, and the mixture of material with immaterial influences, become the causes of the abundant difference in secondary natures.