On the Chaldean Oracles

It hardly? seems? excessive? that within the mental power [of the divinity] is included the Father as Mind, and another mind (the mind of the mind) separated? from him?, which is confirmed by some? fragment:

For the Father perfected all things and handed them over to the
second Mind, whom the whole race of men calls the first.
original Greek: πάντα γὰρ ἐξετέλεσε πατὴρ καὶ νῷ παρέδωκε δευτέρῳ, ὃν πρῶτον κλήζετε πᾶν γένος ἀνδρῶν. This is Fragment 7 of the Chaldean Oracles.

(Psellus 1140. cf. Pletho Ps. omitting "all"). Therefore the Father, or the first Mind original: νοῦς (nous) — the divine intellect or faculty of reason, perfected all things by thinking, then handed them over to the second mind which administers the first? Mind. To this [second mind] therefore pertain the verses:

For he who sits beside this one
... ...? to possess the intelligible things of the Mind,
but to introduce sense-perception to the worlds.
original Greek: ὃς γὰρ παρὰ τῷδε κάθηται ... τὰς νοῦ μὲν κατέχειν τὰ νοητά, αἴσθησιν δ᾽ ἐπάγειν κόσμοις. This describes the demiurgic function of the Second Mind.

This matter is not obscure in itself, but it is difficult to judge concerning the paternal Mind original: νῷ πατρικῷ (noō patrikō) which is mentioned here and there. For the question is asked: what is the relationship that exists between the Father, the paternal Mind, and the second Mind? Porphyry (p. 6) and the anonymous Turin author Refers to the "Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides" found in a Turin palimpsest held them to be three gods, and more recent scholars have followed them in this. In reality, there are two: the Father is nevertheless the mind of mind? and is therefore called the paternal mind: for he is called the Mind? of the Father; one should not think of the other person as distinct? two?. For [one sees] the paternal Mind as being moved by the Father and not by an image, because in several fragments he undoubtedly plays the part of the supreme god. For he is self-begotten original: αὐτογένεθλος (autogenethlos) — existing without a parent or cause, which he also remarks concerning the mind? of God (p. 25); it is granted abundantly to the Aeon A personification of eternal time and to pure souls as if a possession?, so that they may know the paternal mind (cf. p. ???). Thus? it is opposed to the monad of the Father of the second mind: nothing better can be made. But the fact that the World Soul original: anima mundana — the spirit that animates the physical universe is said to be held after the god? of the Father (p. 28) already caused Porphyry the greatest and? finally? [insurmountable] difficulties (p. 6), which not even we shall remove.

... ... ...? S: The indeed? in so many? of each? mind (sc. the Demiurge?) ... ... ...? in this? mind; older? and higher? Lobeck ... ... ...?
... ... ...? Damascius II 177.20 205.20 etc. ... ... ...?
... ... ...? Psellus in oration? ... ... ...?
... ... ...? Plotinus V ... ... ...?