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Sacred Texts: The Classics

Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: From the Treatise in which a Solution is given of Ten Doubts against Providence

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Providence, therefore, as we have said, being defined by the one and the good, and the good subsisting prior to intellect,—for intellect and all beings aspire after the good, but the good does not aspire after intellect,—it is necessary that the knowledge of providence should be above the knowledge of intellect. And thus it is also necessary that providence should know all things, by the one of itself, according to which one, it likewise benefits every thing intellective and non-intellective…

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