Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	0.1 The Chaldean Oracles and Proclus
	0.2 A brief introductory comparison between Proclus’ and the Chaldean Oracles’ metaphysics
	0.3 A concise assessment of the disagreement of current literature concerning the first principles of Chaldean metaphysics
	0.4 The purpose of this book
	0.5 Some methodological and hermeneutical considerations
	0.6 Final considerations
1 The Chaldean triad
	1.1 The triad Father – Power – Intellect
	1.2 The First Transcendent Fire, the First Intellect and the Demiurgic Intellect
2 The structure of the divine dimension
	2.1 The single divine hypostases
3 The world’s intellectual archetype and the creation of the material dimension
	3.1 The world of intellectual Ideas
	3.2 The division of all things into triads
	3.3 The cosmic triad Faith – Truth – Eros
	3.4 The paternal Intellect’s ‘channels of implacable fire’
	3.5 Symbola and synthemata
	3.6 Matter
	3.7 The four elements and the creation of the material world
	3.8 The sun and the encosmic gods
	3.9 The sky
	3.10 The movement of the fixed stars and the planetary revolutions
4 Man and his destiny
	4.1 The creation of man by the Father
	4.2 The vehicle of the soul
	4.3 The material body
	4.4 The liberation of the souls from their material costraints
	4.5 Metempsychosis
	4.6 The soul’s faculty of perception
	4.7 The ‘gods’’ address to the initiate
	4.8 The initiate’s love for the gods
	4.9 Hecate’s apparitions to the initiate
	4.10 The Chaldean way to the Father
	4.11 Man between angels and daemons
5 Proclus’ On Chaldean Philosophy: translation and commentary
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Text
	5.3 Translation
	5.4 Commentary
Conclusions
	Synopsis of Chaldean and Proclean systems
Bibliography
Index of ancient sources quoted
Index