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Under the Master’s tutelage, Proclus based his philosophy upon the principle that there is only one true reality—the “One,” which is God, or the Godhead, the final goal of all life’s efforts. The philosopher said, “Beyond all bodies is the essence of soul, and beyond all souls the intellectual nature, and beyond all intellectual existences the One.”< | Under the Master’s tutelage, Proclus based his philosophy upon the principle that there is only one true reality—the “One,” which is God, or the Godhead, the final goal of all life’s efforts. The philosopher said, “Beyond all bodies is the essence of soul, and beyond all souls the intellectual nature, and beyond all intellectual existences the One.”<ref>Thomas Whittaker, ''The Neo-Platonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism'', 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928), p. 165.</ref> | ||
Los escritos de Proclo abarcaron casi todos los departamentos del aprendizaje, desde la filosofía y la astronomía hasta las matemáticas y la gramática. Reconoció que su iluminación y filosofía provenían de lo alto y creyó ser alguien a través de quien la divina revelación llegaba a la humanidad. | Los escritos de Proclo abarcaron casi todos los departamentos del aprendizaje, desde la filosofía y la astronomía hasta las matemáticas y la gramática. Reconoció que su iluminación y filosofía provenían de lo alto y creyó ser alguien a través de quien la divina revelación llegaba a la humanidad. | ||
Proclus acknowledged that his enlightenment and philosophy came from above—indeed he believed himself to be one through whom divine revelation reached mankind. “He did not appear to be without divine inspiration,” his disciple Marinus wrote, “for he produced from his wise mouth words similar to the most thick falling snow; so that his eyes emitted a bright radiance, and the rest of his countenance participated of divine illumination.”< | Proclus acknowledged that his enlightenment and philosophy came from above—indeed he believed himself to be one through whom divine revelation reached mankind. “He did not appear to be without divine inspiration,” his disciple Marinus wrote, “for he produced from his wise mouth words similar to the most thick falling snow; so that his eyes emitted a bright radiance, and the rest of his countenance participated of divine illumination.”<ref>Victor Cousin and Thomas Taylor, trans., ''Two Treatises of Proclus, The Platonic Successor'' (London: n.p., 1833), p. vi.</ref> | ||
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