1995-11-14 NSPRS 012 - Proclus' Elements of Theology - The Good and the One

[@danielbroening]

9:30 The play he refers to is called The Suppliants. The Libation Bearers is about avenging the murder of Agamemnon. 1:05:50 He reads from Proclus' Elements of Theology: Proposition 13. The following is from the Balboa translation: Every Good Is The Unifying Principle of Those that Participate of Self , and Every Union Is Good , and The Good Is The Same as The One . For if The Good is The Preserving Principle of All The Real Beings , (for which reason The Good is also The Object of Desire for All) but That which is Preservative and Connective of The Ousia of Every Being Is The One (for All are Preserved by The One , and dispersion removes Every Being from The Ousia) . for The Good Brings to Completion Those in which Goodness would be Present , and Goodness Keeps-Them-Together (from dispersing) as One According to Their Union . 21 And if The One is Collective and Connective of The Real Beings , then One-Self will Perfect Every-Being by Its Very Presence . Accordingly then , it is also Good for All These to Be United . If The Union Is According to The Good Self and The Good Is The Unifying Principle , then The Simply Good and The Simply One are The Same ; by Unifying , and at the same time , by Benefiting The Real Beings . And hence it is surely the case that , those who fall away , in a certain way from The Good , at the same time , are also deprived of The Participation of The One . And those that become destitute of The One , are “filled” with separation , and in the same way , they are deprived of The Good . Accordingly then , both The Goodness Is Union , and The Union Is Goodness , and The Good Is One and The One Is Primarily Good .

[@sammiller8640]

No idea what any of that means.

[@WorldTruthSociety]

Thank you so kindly uploader!

[@TimV-t8x]

2:44 categories

[@2020visionofrochesterhills]

Virtuous!

[@alankuntz4406]

he's got a pHd

[@logos6789]

That rejection of spiritual heritage goes with the sayings "no one is a prophet in his own country". Asians don't seem to have that problem. Let's break this fatalistic statement of the son of man through Logos.