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Sacred Texts: The Classics

Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: From the Fifth Book of Proclus on the Timæus of Plato

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In this book, in which he explains the doctrine of Plato concerning material forms, he says, that qualities and all material forms derive their subsistence, according to Plato, from non-being, and again perish by returning into non-being, when the composite is dissolved. He then adds as follows: "Would it not, however, be better to say, that material forms, and not only qualities, are the things which are said to enter into and depart from matter; for these, and not qualities, are the…

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