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The nature of Minerva unfolded from the Commentaries of Proclus on the Timæus.—The spear and shield with which this Goddess, in the statues of her, is represented as armed, explained from Iamblichus.—And observations respecting the mundane allotment of this Goddess.

The nature of the great mundane divinity, the earth, unfolded from Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato.

The manner in which the earth is said to be the most ancient, and the first of the Gods within the heavens, explained.

On the essence of the sublunary deities.—What Plato says of them in the Timæus unfolded.

Where the sublunary Gods are to be arranged.—And the meaning of the subsequent words of Plato developed.

The nature of the sublunary Gods more fully unfolded.—On the dæmoniacal order.—And that about each of the fabricators of generation, there is a co-ordinate angelical, dæmoniacal, and heroical multitude, which retains the appellation of its producing monad.

What Pythagoras says in the Sacred Discourse.—What the Orphic traditions are concerning Phanes, Night, Heaven, Saturn, Jupiter, and Bacchus.—That Plato begins the Theogony of the sublunary Gods from Heaven and Earth, and not from Phanes and Night.—And why he does so.

On the two principles Heaven and Earth.—What each of them is; and particularly concerning the power of Heaven.

The whole theory of Earth unfolded.—And also the theory of Ocean and Tethys.—That the causes of these are in the intellectual Gods, and likewise in the sensible universe.