Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. NO subjects of discussion are perhaps more in teresting or more important than those of which the present volume consists. For 'what can more demand our most serious attention, or what can be more essential to the well-being of our immortal part, than a scientific elucidation and defence of the mysterious ways of Providence, and a development of the nature of Evil? For as Divinity is good ness itself, it is requisite that all the dispensations of his providence should be beneficent, and that perfect evil should have no real existence in the nature of things. That this is necessary, is de monstrated by Proclus in the following Treatises with his usual acuteness and eloquence, by argu ments which are no less admirable for their per spicuity, than invincible from their strength.

NO subjects of discussion are perhaps more in teresting or more important than those of which the present volume consists. For 'what can more demand our most serious attention, or what can be more essential to the well-being of our immortal part, than a scientific elucidation and defence of the mysterious ways of Providence, and a development of the nature of Evil? For as Divinity is good ness itself, it is requisite that all the dispensations of his providence should be beneficent, and that perfect evil should have no real existence in the nature of things. That this is necessary, is de monstrated by Proclus in the following Treatises with his usual acuteness and eloquence, by argu ments which are no less admirable for their per spicuity, than invincible from their strength.