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

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The Demiurgus alone can dissolve the world: for Plato says [in the Timæus] 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 Timæus of Plato], "that it pertains only to an evil…

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

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