Commentary on Plato's Timaeus

...adorning life, let us not say if something? is not only fleshly original: "sarkikon" — meaning material, bodily, or pertaining to the lower nature of man. that we will say is the city of the

to be well-disposed, but? also a protection extending through all common close by

symbols symbols In Neoplatonism, "symbols" (symbola) or "tokens" (synthēmata) are divine signatures planted in the material world that link it back to the higher realms. to patrol; and most of all not to be distorted or to arrange thus
the opposition, the war of the Atlanteans against the Athenians; not if some pea-?
ce? according to nature and not looking suspiciously. We will say that the citizens of similar character
[look] toward their own arrangement; and toward a kinship in it,
they say to see the model paradigm original: "paradeigma" — the eternal, perfect blueprint in the mind of God used to create the world. for itself again. But the [cities] of the Atlanteans,
we say the city is to become an image shadow in life; therefore we will grant that it undergoes gi-
gantic Proclus often compares Atlantis to the Giants of myth, who represent the chaotic, unruly forces of matter and "becoming." changes. For these things have already been made for these reasons; not of the whole by nature
but by name; and upon these, the fertile and creative demiurgic cause of all
things, the [cause] through which all things [exist]; and both the model and the specific form; of which
pre-excelling, the whole is fashioned both generally and according to
parts; for also the body which it must itself construct with the divine
forms is creative the same and for the living beings always for that which is be-
coming; and if something in the matter [comes] from the creator and is filled
with divine daimonic reasons logoi original: "logōn" — here meaning the rational principles or "blueprints" that organize matter.; and having the insertions of the creative [power]; from the whole
living being it is woven together according to the same and completing the cosmos for all;
for both the partial things in it are properly
placed in the whole; as many things as are bodily,
all are vital; [those] being animated by a partial and natural soul,
the whole about forgetfulness A reference to the Platonic idea that souls "forget" their divine origin when they descend into the body. but as possible?; and the [things] remaining
stable according to both its own shape; and but the division alone
he fashions for itself both for the body and for the living being; and he makes live all the
heaven of gods; it is a straight [path] toward the system and the heaven
universally; and concerning the other things likewise; because for the one there is a common
piety for their own of the, the whole reason logos itself was clothed
through the living being; and because the reason is of the length of the cosmos; and it exists also
in the whole of the partial things as many as are in the cosmos; the other and totally. For not something?