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Proclus : DIVINE TRUTH

from the Theology of Plato, * Excerpts from ch. 20 & 21
Translated by Thomas Taylor  * Greek Fonts  * Proclus Resources


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The Athenian guest also celebrates this truth which subsists primarily in the Gods; for he says that truth is the leader to the Gods of every good, and likewise of every good to men. For as the truth which is in souls conjoins them with intellect, and as intellectual truth conducts all the intellectual orders to The One, thus also the truth of the Gods unites the divine unities to the fountain of all good, with which being conjoined, they are filled with all boniform power. For every where the hyparxis of truth has a cause which is collective of multitude into one; since in the Republic also, the light proceeding from The Good and which conjoins intellect with the intelligible, is denominated by Plato truth.

Ταύτην δὴ τὴν ἐν τοῖς θεοῖς πρώτως ὑφεστηκυῖαν ἀλήθειαν καὶ ὁ Ἀθηναῖος ξένος ἀνύμνησεν͵ ἀλήθεια δή͵ φάς͵ πάντων μὲν ἀγαθῶν θεοῖς ἡγεῖται͵ πάντων δὲ ἀνθρώποις. Ὡς γὰρ τὰς ψυχὰς ἡ ἐν αὐταῖς ἀλήθεια συνάπτει πρὸς νοῦν͵ ὡς τὰς νοερὰς πάσας τάξεις ἡ νοερὰ ἀλήθεια συνάγει πρὸς τὸ ἕν͵ οὕτω δὴ καὶ ἡ τῶν θεῶν ἀλήθεια τὰς θείας ἑνάδας ἑνοῖ τῇ πηγῇ τῶν ὅλων ἀγαθῶν͵ πρὸς ἣν δὴ συνενιζόμεναι πληροῦνται πάσης ἀγαθοειδοῦς δυνάμεως. Πανταχοῦ γὰρ δὴ συναγωγὸν ἔχει τοῦ πλήθους εἰς τὸ ἓν αἰτίαν ἡ τῆς ἀληθείας ὕπαρξις· ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ ἐν Πολιτείᾳ προϊὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ φῶς͵ τὸ συνάπτον τῷ νοητῷ τὸν νοῦν͵ ἀλήθειαν ὁ Πλάτων καλεῖ.

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