Elements of Theology

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This account automatically tweets propositions from Proclus' Stoicheia Theologike, best known as his Elements of Theology. The translations are by @philoantonio.

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93. Every unlimited being exceeds limit unlimited neither for what is superior to it nor for itself.

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127. Every divinity is primarily and most simple, and it is on account of this that it is the most self-sufficient.

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93. Every unlimited being exceeds limit unlimited neither for what is superior to it nor for itself.

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45. Every self-realized reality is ungenerated.

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17. Every primarily self-changing cause intends itself.

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123. All the divine itself is on the one hand unknown to all secondary beings on account of its ineffable union beyond essence, but it is grasped and known from what incorporates it. On account of which solely the first is totally unknowable, since it cannot be incorporated.

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43. Every self-intending being is self-realized.

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29. Every journey forth is accomplished on account of a likeness of the secondary to the primary.

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47. Every self-realized reality is simple and without parts.

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27. Every productive cause produces secondary things on account of perfection and abundance of power.

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104. Both the essence and activity of every primarily everpresent reality are everpresent.

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86. All essential being exceeds limit neither in multitude nor in magnitude, but solely in its power.

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16. Every self-intending being has an essence separate from all bodies.

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55. Every temporal reality is made real either in perpetual time or at some moment in a part of time.

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14a. Every being is either unchanging or changing; and if it is changing, it is changed either by itself or by another;

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163. The multitude of independent unities that unincorporated intelligence incorporates is intelligential.

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31. Everything that goes forth essentially intends the origin of its journey forth.

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165. The multitude of independent unities that are incorporated by some perceptible body is world immanent.

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209c. Yet the mind ascends by putting away all such powers of working generation and by becoming pure and naked of all of them.