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Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Arguments in Proof of the Eternity of the World: Argument the First

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1. The first argument is unfortunately lost; but from what may be collected from Philoponus, the substance of it appears to have been this: "that the artificer of the world being an eternally energising being, and energising essentially, the universe must be consubsistent with him, in the same manner as the sun, which produces light by its very being, has the light so produced consubsistent with itself, and neither is light prior or posterior to the sun, nor the sun to light; just as the shadow…

Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Arguments in Proof of the Eternity of the World: Argument the First

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