Numenius of Apamea: The Father of Neo-Platonism (c1917) - Page 7

PART FIRST.

SPECIAL WORKS.

I. FROM THE TREATISE ON THE GOOD.

FIRST BOOK.

(PRACTICAL QUESTIONS?)

9a. Numenius is a comparative student of religion.
9b. Numenius investigates comparatively and allegorically.
13. Plato as a Greek Moses.
10. The road to understanding of the Good (or the path to ecstasy).
11. Real being inheres neither in the elements nor in matter.
12. The soul as savior of the body.
14. God’s power as a solution to the Eleatic puzzle Referring to the paradoxes of the Eleatic school concerning motion and being..
15. Providence as the cure for dualism.
16. The origin of evil, according to various thinkers.
17. Providence cures the reluctance of matter.
18. How God perfects the world.

SECOND BOOK.

(THEOLOGICAL METAPHYSICS.)

19. The Existent as timeless, motionless, and permanent.
20. True existence is supersensual.
21. Existence and growth, or conception and perception.
22. The unchangeable is the incomprehensible.

THIRD BOOK.

(ALLEGORICAL EXPOUNDING BY COMPARATIVE RELIGION?)

23. Legend of the opponents of Moses.
24. A story about Jesus allegorized.
65. Numenius as an allegorical student of history.

(THE FOURTH BOOK IS ENTIRELY MISSING.)