The 900 Theses

¶ Under the second member of the leading trinity The "leading trinity" refers to a specific rank of Neoplatonic deities that guide the soul is life and generation. Every soul coming into generation belongs to the watery sphere of the wandering stars The planets and the lowest part of the air, which is above the caverns of minerals and earthquakes; the middle part of the earth and around the center.

¶ Under the third member of the same order is the conversion The return of the soul toward the divine of specific divisions: the purification of souls; the sphere of active and passive things; the earth with terrestrial things which are around Tartarus The deepest abyss of the underworld and the western part.

¶ And if the second trinity of the super-mundane Existing beyond the physical world gods is called Proserpina in its entirety, nevertheless its first unity is called Diana among the Greeks;

¶ The second is Persephone; the third is Minerva. Among the barbarians Non-Greek peoples, often referring to Egyptians or Persians in this context, however: the first is Hecate; the second is Soul; the third is Virtue.

¶ According to the preceding conclusion, one of the sayings of Zoroaster can be explained from the mind of Proclus A 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher according to how it is read among the Greeks, although among the Chaldeans Ancient Babylonians/Persians associated with the "Chaldean Oracles" it is both read and explained differently.

¶ The third trinity of super-mundane gods is called Apollo, and the power of conversion is appropriated to him.

¶ The trinity of Proserpina is accompanied at its side by a trinity that is protective and preservative.

¶ The twelve gods mentioned in the Phaedrus Plato’s dialogue on the soul and beauty are intermediary gods between the super-mundane and the mundane; they are the bond between them.

¶ The gods mentioned in the Phaedrus are to be distinguished into four Trinities: the Fabricative, the Protective, the Vital, and the Conversive.

¶ There are four armies of the junior gods. The first dwells from the first heaven down to the beginning of the air; the second from there to the middle of the air; the third from there down to the earth.

¶ To each of these corresponds, proportionally, a fourfold army of Angels, Demons, and Souls.

¶ In the "Living-Being-in-Itself" The archetypal model of the universe there appears first a quaternary A grouping of four: of the one being; of the one "being-ness"; and of the "one-like" being.

¶ The Maker The Demiurge or Creator, looking toward the quaternary of the Living-Being-in-Itself, fabricates the four principal parts of the world.

¶ Insofar as the Maker looks toward the exemplar of the "One Form" in the Living-Being-in-Itself, he makes the first part of the worldly body.