{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_flwp_flwp12_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_flwp_flwp12_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_flwp_flwp12_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/flwp/flwp12.htm","summary":"The Demiurgus alone can dissolve the world: for Plato says [in the Tim\u00e6us] that it is in every respect indissoluble, except by him by whom it was bound; for every where it is the province of him who knows [and is the cause of] a bond, to know also the mode of dissolving that which he bound; and it is the province of him who knows the mode of dissolution to dissolve. But the Demiurgus will never dissolve the world. For it is he who says [in the Tim\u00e6us of Plato], \"that it pertains only to an evil\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Arguments in Proof of the Eternity of the World: Argument the Sixth","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":435}