Commentary on Plato's Timaeus

...from which he produced toward one another, remaining from the Father of all
and Creator Demiurge original: "dēmiourgou" — the craftsman-god who fashions the physical world according to an eternal model.. In this [state], he fashions all things if
not from there, from above, it should be given again. And from the "six-period" The Greek "hexamēnou" usually refers to a six-month period, but in this cosmological context, it likely refers to the "six-fold" divisions of the soul or the hexadic structure of creation often discussed by Neoplatonists. and
through the subject proceeding from himself. For this world is not the same
ensouled, perhaps uniform world, such as to the intelligible original: "noētō" — the realm of Ideas that can only be perceived by the mind, not the senses. and in the intellectual realm he says, and that
but while indeed in himself in the intelligible reason, that one is conceived as the subject of the
order, thus also the fine linen Likely a metaphor for the "garment" of the cosmos or the subtle substance of the heavens. all, but he the same all with friendship
something of all things fashioning, give the making of the world. From the face Or "outward appearance."
the intelligible [nature]. So that also he might receive the maker and the means through which and the underlying nature
nature. And indeed to us only the [matters] were discussed; the beautiful would appear as the only cause
itself would be seen upon the intelligible things, together with goodness.
But if he said the "only," then at once it would also be the "only"; but since of the subject of the
toward the [goal] to make all the things similar, and from the intelligible the cause
of beings, [serving as a] paradigm original: "paradeigma" — the eternal blueprint or model used by the Creator.. But if he makes the argument concerning the hypercosmic original: "hyperkosmiōn" — realities existing beyond or above the physical universe. [realms], it would be thus:
the fashioning alone [is] another, the making-similar alone. And according to the intelligible paradigm, and establishing
goodness [as] the cause of all those things in them, so that there are also paradigms.

That one and at once before indeed the substances. But since it is proposed to discuss
the world, and in the world to understand the entirety of both matter and form, he himself
reached from the hypercosmic God into it, and through the given
Creator, he brought forth the world itself as a living being, wishing to make it similar to the
[one] after this again; for indeed always the ensouled completes the whole
ensouled world. For if therefore thus not intelligible it is by the statement and the Timaeus, either
thus as a paradigm of the universe, but not something of such a sort is fitting in the beginning,
not through ignorance and all the things in the world of order. In the middle [of the text], making
all the making of the world, he delivers it. But toward the end, for the sake of his
creative power for the all [of things], from the [power] toward
the more, and from the unerring power, so that through it he might manifest the
whole world. Then since into the unification and the [fact that] all things from the...

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