Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Vol. I

...moving and living and full of divinity and communicating to all things within itself, and receiving all good things at once from the father, and individually receiving movement from nature, and movement and life from the soul, and thought and life and the reception of the intra-cosmic gods from the intellect, and finally, being completed as the truest statue of the intelligible gods by the intra-cosmic gods themselves. And again, from this it is clear how he establishes the demiurge at the extremities of the celebrants priests/initiators, revealing him as the statue-maker of the cosmos, just as before he was the maker of divine names and the revealer of divine characters, through which he perfected the soul. For these are the things that the true celebrants do, perfecting statues through characters and vital names, and rendering them living and moving.

Reasonably, therefore, the father of all things admires his own creation, rejoicing in it because he makes it more similar to the paradigm. He admires and wonders not at what has proceeded and been made such through him, but at his own power that, from that which was moving in a disorderly and wayward manner, has rendered the whole well-ordered, ensouled, endowed with intellect, and filled with god. And just as he knows the cosmos by knowing himself, so, wondering at his own creative power, he makes the product admirable and a true statue of the eternal gods. For in a way, "statue" in Greek, "agalma" is said in relation to the god "rejoicing" in Greek, "agallesthei" in it. He rejoices, not by being happy over a thing lying outside (for how does he look outside, being intellect?), but as his good-natured will is being fulfilled, and his goodness-producing power proceeds toward an abundant distribution and supply of the more perfect goods. This he himself sufficiently indicated by saying: "And having rejoiced yet more, he considered rendering it similar to the paradigm." For he rejoices primarily according to the thought within himself, in a simple, unimpeded, and total comprehension, encompassing the entire intelligible realm and showing kindness toward it through his standing and perfect union with it.