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CONTENTS.
How it is necessary to enter on the theory concerning the one, through negations. And what disposition of the soul is most adapted to discussions of this kind.
A celebration of the one, demonstrating through negative conclusions that it is exempt from all the orders of beings, according to the order delivered in the Parmenides.
CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK III.
That after the discussion in common of the one principle of things, it is requisite to treat of the divine orders, and to show how many they are, and how they are divided from each other.
That the multitude of unities according to which the Gods have their hypostasis, subsists after the one.
How many the particulars are which ought to be demonstrated previous to the discovery of the multitude of the divine orders, and an uninterrupted narration of the doctrine of these.
That all the unities are participable. And that there is only one truly superessential one; but that all the other unities are participated by essences.[1]
That the participations of the unities which are nearer to the one, proceed into more simple hypostases; but the participations of those that are remote from the one, proceed into more composite hypostases.
- ↑ These four chapters are comprehended in one in my translation, as they are not marked in the Greek; and I had not divided them, when this work was sent to the press, as I have done the chapters of the other books, in which there is a similar defect in the original.
