Proclus, Theologia Platonica; Michael Psellos

...he explains their ineffable properties symbolically in war; and by tracing back from many images to [their archetypes], and discovering in them the primary-working causes of the wholes; for in the Phaedrus, having become seized by the nymphs, and having admired that madness which is superior to the intellectual kind, [he says], "I shall be somewhat inspired," delivering many secret doctrines concerning the intellectual gods through their procession, and many concerning the absolute leaders of the universe, who bind the multitude of the encosmic gods to the intelligible and separate monads of the wholes. Still further, he speaks concerning those gods themselves who have been allotted the world, hymning their intellections and their circum-cosmic productions; and further, the immaculate providence and the governance concerning souls, and all other things that encompass the whole knowledge of the gods. And in the discourses in the Phaedo, as he himself says ineffably—and this too by grasping such madness from the archic gods; and in the Sophist, contending dialectically concerning Being and the subsistence of the One as separate from beings, and raising difficulties against the ancients, he demonstrates how all things are suspended from the cause of [all] and from the first Being; and Being itself participates in the transcendent monad of the wholes; and how it is not the One itself, but its mirror. He says that its permanence primarily exists as something subordinated to the One; and together with these, he reveals dialectically the procession of the whole form of Being from the One, and the pre-eminence of the One, through the primary hypotheses; and as he himself says in those discourses according to the final division of the methodized inquiry. And truly, in the Gorgias also, he relates a myth concerning the sub-demiurges and concerning the demiurgic allotment therein through lots—being not only a myth, but also a rational account; and in the Symposium, concerning the union of Love; and in the Politicus, concerning the ordering of mortal life by the gods, adopting the symbolic manner