Commentary on Plato's Timaeus

...and of us together in one another and [remaining] solitary. For he who [is deprived] of one another is something more than blind?; as for those who are blinded in their reason, it is clear that light also [rests] upon the perishing? in the eyes of all, and of those appearing as if initiated? into envies. And they share this light with one another; to be ungrudging original: 'aphthonein'; the idea that the divine and the wise do not withhold their gifts, a concept central to Plato’s Timaeus is not [far] from the Muses—from which things I spoke, the following is seen beforehand?. For they did not gather, nor from themselves bring together?...

Porphyry

But the philosopher Porphyry Porphyry (c. 234–305 AD) was a student of Plotinus and a major editor of his works; here Proclus examines Porphyry's take on the "genealogy" of ideas. says it is fitting to ascribe [these things] among them, saying on one hand that the genealogy? is the middle [term], and the pursuit of such things [comes] perhaps from much blindness, [yet] it is considered most genuine and heavenly? compared to worldly matters?.

that [it was] by many? of? the friends

...and common; and the unaccountable [power] of friends, being drawn together upon certain friends? in some simple way, he who never seems to act rightly contrary to the common opinion. And he says both things about friendship itself: the being seen with the eyes and the necessity of the absent one not even seeing? in fear; just as we said, to practice the love of learning original: 'philologian'; here used in the sense of 'love of discourse' or intellectual study, for this reason especially one must be a lover of learning. And the

Iamblichus

divine Iamblichus Iamblichus (c. 245–325 AD) was a Neoplatonist who emphasized theurgy and divine ritual over pure logic. Proclus usually prefers his more "theological" interpretations., considering this passage, says its entire intellection intellection: 'noēsis', the immediate, non-discursive grasp of truth by the mind and activity activity: 'energeia', the active exercise of a power or being is not? according to the reflection concerning sensible things sensible things: objects of the physical senses, of the school, just as he also said, that as many as would live as best as possible should look down at the act of seeing, lest they be blunted in descending into more [material things], and before [longing?] such as it has even the true Form, but not even from nor in it? [can one] somehow truly look toward the light. And for this reason it is said by him quite simply concerning this: for it is fitting to another in the law of each, and to seem to be impossible for them by these powers of the rays? original: 'bolōn'; literally 'throws' or 'bolts', often used to describe the rays of light or the visual 'fire' from the eyes and in the immediate hypothesis of essence. Wherefore, indeed, of those stealing from one another, but before they are about to be one, let it be so...