Proclus, Theologia Platonica; Michael Psellos

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Through how many axioms the discourse concerning both providence and the goodness of the divinity has been established. 12 In what manner and through what concise inquiry the existence of the gods is established; and through what sort of intermediaries the discourse has ascended to them, the truly existing gods.

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How the providence of the gods is concisely demonstrated; and what the mode of their providence is according to Plato. 14 By what arguments those who attempt the same subject say that the gods are self-determined in their providence. 15 What the axioms in the Republic concerning the immortal ones are; and what their relation is to one another in sequence. 16 What the goodness of God is; and how they are the causes of all good things; and that evil, according to its subsistence, is not ordered, while both it and the universe are ordered by the gods. 17 What the immutability of the gods is; that it is synonymous and unvarying; and what the complete, impassive state is; and how they and their own affairs are in like manner directed by the gods.

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What the simplicity of the gods is; and how their simplicity appears multiform in the imaginations of others. 19 What that is in which mediation occurs; and how falsehood arises among us, but in no way among the gods or those second to the gods. 20 From what statements in the Phaedrus the various axioms concerning the gods are derived; that [the divine] is not evil, but good.

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An exposition of the dogmas concerning goodness; and an examination of the elements of the Good in the Philebus. 22 What the essence of God is, and what elements of it one might take from Plato.

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Concerning the One and the elements which Plato ascribes to it. 24 What that is which joins [the soul] to the Good, the Wise, and the Beautiful, the starting points for which Plato has laid down for us, and concerning the contemplation of them. 25 Concerning the axioms of the ineffable nature of the gods delivered in the Phaedo. What is the immortal; what is the uniform; and what relation these have to one another.

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What is to be understood as the uniform, the indissoluble, and the ever-constant in the gods. 27 How the primary causes and the partial causes are to be understood in the gods. 28 Concerning names and their correctness, and that which is maintained in the Cratylus regarding the divine.