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demons.

And again, the Gods ſubſiſting about bodies, fouls, and intellects';-

angels exhibiting their providence about fouls and bodies; and daemons, being divided about the fabrication of nature, and the care of bodies.

But

it may be alked, Why does Plato comprehend the whole extent of the Gods producing generation, in thefe nine divinities ?

Becaufe, fays Proclus, this*

ennead accomplifhes the fabrication of generation.

For in the fublunary

regions there are bodies and natures, fouls and intellects, and thefe both totally and partially.

And all thefe fubfift in both refpe&s, that is both

totally and partially, in each of the elements, becaufe wholes and parts fubfift together.

Hence, as each element ranks as a monad, and contains

bodies and natures, fouls and intellects, both totally and partially, an ennead will evidently be produced in each.

But Heaven and 'Earth generate the

unapparent eftences of thefe, the former according to union, and the latter according to multiplication : but Ocean and Tethys give perfection to their common and diftributed motion ; at the fame time that the motion of each is different.

In like manner, with refpeCt to the wholes which are adorned,.

Saturn diftributes things partial from fuch as are total, but in an intellectual

manner.

But Rhea calls forth this diftribution from intellectual natures into

all-various progreffions, and as far as to the ultimate forms of life, in confequence of her being a vivific Goddefs.

But Phorcys produces the Tita¬

nic diftinCtion, as far as to natural reafons. fathers of compofite natures fucceed.

And after thefe three, the

And Jupiter indeed orderly difpofes

fenfible natures totally, in imitation of Heaven.

For in the intellectual?

order, and in the royal feries, he. proceeds analogous to Heaven r.

But

Juno moves the wholes, fills them with powers, and unfolds them accord¬ ing to every progreffion.

And the Gods pofterior to thefe fabricate the-

partial works of fenfible natuies, according to the charaCieriftics by which, they are diftinguifhed ; viz. the demiurgic, the vivific, the perfe&ive, and the conneClive, unfolding and diftributing themfelves as far as to the laft of things.

For thefe laft are all of them analogous to the Saturnian order,,

from whole government the diftributive chara&eriftic originally proceeds. Again, by the Crater in which the mundane foul was mingled, we mu ft 1

For there are fix kings, according to Orpheus, who prefide over the univerfe—Phanes, Night,

Heaven, Saturn, Jupiter, Bacchus; and of thefe Saturn proceeds analogous to Phanes, and Jupiter to Heaven.

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