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CONTENTS.
lix
What the natures are which participate of the divine unities, and what the order of them is with respect to each other. And that being indeed, is the most ancient of these; life, the second; intellect, the third; soul, the fourth; and body, the last. And that there are also as many orders of the divine unities.[1]
A resumption of the doctrine concerning the one, and a discussion of the biformed principles posterior to the one.
What the two principles are of all things posterior to the one; how Socrates the Philebus calls them bound and infinity; and of what things they are the causes[2] to beings.[3]
What the third thing is which is produced from the two principles. Why Socrates in the Philebus calls it that which is mixed. That it is nothing else than that which is primarily being.[4] And how this proceeds from the two principles, and from the one.
How from images also, it may be inferred, that the first thing which subsists from bound and infinity is being. How this may be demonstrated. And how bound and infinity are twofold; one order of these subsisting in being, but the other existing prior to being.[5]
What the triad is, which Socrates in the Philebus says is inherent in every thing that is mixed.[6]
Concerning the first intelligible triad in common; and how the second triad proceeds analogous to this.[7]
- ↑ The fifth and sixth chapters are comprehended in the second chapter in my translation.
- ↑ For ουσιαι, it is necessary to read αιτιαι.
- ↑ The seventh and eighth chapters form the third in my translation.
- ↑ For εν, it is necessary to read ον.
- ↑ And the ninth and tenth are the fourth and fifth chapters in my translation.
- ↑ This is the sixth chapter in my translation.
- ↑ It appears from this account of the contents of the twelfth chapter, that a considerable part of it is wanting in the original; because nothing is said in it about the manner in which the second triad proceeds analogous to the first.
