CHAPTER XXIII. How Parmenides delivers the multitude of Gods in the second hypothesis. And how we should discourse about each order of them, employing for this purpose the conclusions of that hypothesis. CHAPTER XXIV. What the first intelligible triad is according to Parmenides. Whence he begins, and how far he proceeds, teaching concerning it. CHAPTER XXV. What the second intelligible triad is. How it is delivered by Parmenides in continuity with the triad prior to it. And how far he produces the discourse concerning it. CHAPTER XXVI. What the third intelligible triad is. And how Parmenides unfolds it through the third conclusion. CHAPTER XXVII. Concerning the three conclusions in common, through which the three orders of intelligibles are characterized. And how through these it is possible to dissolve the most difficult of theological doubts. CHAPTER XXVIII. A celebration of the intelligible Gods, unfolding at the same time the union of intelligibles themselves with the good, and their exempt hyparxis. CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS OF BOOK IV. CHAPTER I. What the peculiarity is of the intelligible and intellectual Gods. How they illuminate imparticipable life, and are in continuity with the intelligible Gods. CHAPTER II. How the intelligible and intellectual Gods subsist from the intelligible Gods. And how they com municate with the intelligible Gods. CHAPTER III. What the division is of the intelligible and intellectual Gods according to triads. And what the dif ference is of these triads with respect to the intelligible triads. CHAPTER IV. How Socrates in the Phædrus leads us to this order of Gods. CHAPTER V. That it is not proper to understand the Heaven, and celestial circulation [celebrated in the Phædrus] as pertaining to sensibles; and many admonitions from the Platonic words themselves, that these are to be referred to the first order of Heaven. CHAPTER VI. That the supercelestial place is not simply intelligible; but demonstrations from what is delivered about it [in the Phædrus,] that it is allotted an intelligible order as in intellectuals, CHAPTER VII. That the subcelestial arch is the boundary of the intelligible and intellectual Gods, evinced from the peculiarities of it. CHAPTER VIII. Why Plato characterizes this order of Gods from the middle which it contains, and delivers the names of the extremes according to the habitude to this middle. CHAPTER IX. That Plato delivers the same mode of ascent to the intelligible, as is delivered by initiators into the mysteries. CHAPTER X. What the supercelestial place is. How it proceeds from the first intelligibles. How it is supreme in intellectuals, And how Plato demonstrates its prolific power. CHAPTER XI. How Plato has indicated the unknown peculiarity of the summit of intelligibles and intellectuals, and why he celebrates it at one and the same time affirmatively and negatively. CHAPTER XII. What the negations are of the supercelestial place. That they are produced from the divine orders, What kind of negations also designate the uncoloured, what, the unfigured, and what, the pri vation of contact, CHAPTER XIII. What the things are which Plato affirms of the supercelestial place, and from what intelligible peculiarities, he ascribes to it affirmative signs. CHAPTER XIV. What the three deities of the virtues, viz. science, temperance, and justice, are in the supercelestial place; what order they have with respect to each other; and what perfection each of them imparts to the Gods. CHAPTER XV. What the plain of Truth, and what the meadow are. What the unical form of intelligible nutriment is. What the twofold nutriment of the Gods is which is distributed from this intelligible food. CHAPTER XVI. Many admonitions that the supercelestial place is triadic. And what the signs are of the three hypostases in it. CHAPTER XVII. Who Adrastia is. What the sacred law of Adrastia is. That she ranks in the supercelestial place. And on what account she does so. CHAPTER XVIII. A summary account of what is said about the supercelestial place, unfolding the peculiarities of it. CHAPTER XIX. Demonstrations that the connectedly-containing order is in the intelligible and intellectual Gods. And that it is necessary there should be three connective causes of wholes. CHAPTER XX. That according to Plato the celestial circulation is the same with the connective order. CHAPTER XXI. How we may obtain auxiliaries from what is said by Plato of the triadic division in the connective deity. And why he especially venerates the union in this triad. CHAPTER XXII. What the theology in the Cratylus is concerning Heaven. And how it is possible to collect from it by a reasoning process the middle of the intelligible and intellectual Gods. CHAPTER XXIII. That the most divinely-inspired of the interpreters have defined the subcelestial arch to be a certain peculiar order. And that our preceptor has unfolded it in the most perfect manner. CHAPTER XXIV. Many admonitions that the peculiarity of the subcelestial arch is perfective, from what Plato has delivered concerning it, and from the souls that are elevated to it. CHAPTER XXV. What the triadic division is of the perfective order, which Plato has delivered in the subcelestial arch. CHAPTER XXVI. What the elevation is of souls separate from bodies to the intelligible and intellectual triads. What the most blessed telete is. What muesis, and epopteia are. What the entire, simple, and unmoved visions are. And what the end is of all this elevation. CHAPTER XXVII. How Plato unfolds in the Parmenides, from intelligibles the intelligible and intellectual orders, And what that which is common, and that which is different are, in the theology concerning these, CHAPTER XXVIII. How the intelligible and intellectual number proceeds from intelligibles. And in what it differs from intelligible multitude, How divine number adorns all beings. And what the powers in it are which are symbolically delivered from the division of number. CHAPTER XXX. How Parmenides has delivered the feminine and generative peculiarity [of first number] in what he says concerning number. CHAPTER XXXI. How we may discover in what is delivered concerning number, the triadic division of the summit of intelligibles and intellectuals. CHAPTER XXXII. Whether it is proper to place number prior to animal itself, or in animal itself, or posterior to it What the unknown is in divine numbers. What the generative is in them. And admonitions of these things from what is elsewhere said by Plato concerning numbers. Whence Parmenides begins to speak about this order. And how far he proceeds in what he says about it. How he likewise unfolds the three monads in it conformably to what is said in the How many theological dogmas we may assume, through the order of the conclusions delivered by |