The fragments that remain of the lost writings of Proclus, surnamed the Platonic successor / translated from the Greek, by Thomas Taylor.
- Proclus
- Date:
- 1825
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The fragments that remain of the lost writings of Proclus, surnamed the Platonic successor / translated from the Greek, by Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![universe is generated at a certain time, an im- possibility will take place'. For when that which makes is in energy, that which is generated will also be generated in energy. Both, therefore, exist always ; the one being generated, and the other producing perpetually. The world is always fabricated ; and as the Demiurgus fabricated always, and still fabricates, so likewise the world is always fabricated, and now rising into existence, was generated, and, having been made, is always generated [or be- coming to be] ; so that the world is always fabri- cated. And as the Demiurgus always did fabri- cate, and still fabricates, so the world was always and is fabricated ; and while it is becoming to be, was generated, and having been generated, is always generated. Proelus assents to what is said by Aristotle concerning the perpetuity of the world ; but he says it was not just in him to accuse Plato. For to be generated, does not signify, with Plato, the beginning of existence, but a subsistence in perpe- tually becoming to be. For the natures which are established above time, and which are eternal, have the whole of their essence and power, and the perfection of their energy, simultaneously pre- sent. But every thing which is in time has not its proper life collectively and at once present. For whatever is in time, though it should be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22402068_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
