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Proclus : DIVINE TRUTH

from the Theology of Plato, * Excerpts from ch. 20 & 21
Translated by Thomas Taylor  * Greek Fonts  * Proclus Resources


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All things therefore are alone from the Gods, and real truth is with them who know all things unically. For on this account also, in oracles the Gods similarly teach all things, wholes and parts, things eternal, and such as are generated through the whole of time. For being exempt from eternal beings, and from those that exist in time, they contract in themselves the knowledge of each and of all things, according to one united truth. If therefore any falsehood occurs in the oracles of the Gods, we must not say that a thing of this kind originates from the Gods, but from the recipients, or the instruments, or the places, or the times. For all these contribute to the participation of divine knowledge, and when they are appropriately co-adapted to the Gods, they receive a pure illumination of the truth which is established in them. But when they are separated from the Gods through inaptitude, and become discordant with them, then they obscure the truth which proceeds from them. Πάντα οὖν μόνως ἐκ τῶν θεῶν͵ καὶ ἡ ὄντως ἀλήθεια παρ΄ ἐκείνοις οἳ πάντα γινώσκουσιν ἑνιαίως. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἐν τοῖς χρησμοῖς ὁμοίως οἱ θεοὶ τὰ πάντα διδάσκουσιν͵ τά τε ὅλα καὶ τὰ μερικά͵ καὶ τὰ αἰώνια καὶ τὰ εἰς ἅπαντα τὸν χρόνον γιγνόμενα· καὶ γὰρ τῶν αἰωνίως ὄντων καὶ τῶν ἐν χρόνοις ἐξῃρημένοι͵ κατὰ μίαν καὶ ἡνωμένην ἀλήθειαν τὴν ἑκάστου καὶ πάντων γνῶσιν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς συνῃρήκασιν. Εἰ δ΄ ἄρα τι καὶ παρεμπίπτοι ψεῦδος εἰς τὰ χρηστήρια τῶν θεῶν͵ οὐκ ἀπὸ τῶν θεῶν τὸ τοιοῦτο γεννᾶσθαι φήσομεν͵ ἀλλ΄ ἀπὸ τῶν δεχομένων ἢ τῶν ὀργάνων ἢ τῶν τόπων ἢ τῶν καιρῶν· ἅπαντα γὰρ ταῦτα συντελεῖ πρὸς τὴν μετουσίαν τῆς θείας γνώσεως͵ καὶ συναρμοζόμενα μὲν οἰκείως τοῖς θεοῖς καθαρὰν ὑποδέχεται τῆς ἐν αὐτοῖς ἱδρυμένης ἀληθείας τὴν ἔλλαμψιν͵ ἀφιστάμενα δὲ δι΄ ἀνεπιτηδειότητος τῶν θεῶν καὶ ἀνάρμοστα γινόμενα πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐπηλυγάζει τὴν ἀπ΄ αὐτῶν προϊοῦσαν ἀλήθειαν.
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