Ten Gifts of the Demiurge

Proclus'' commentary on Plato''s "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary. In it Proclus contemplates nature''s mysterious origins and at the same time employs the deductive rigour required to address perennial philosophical questions. Nature, for him, is both divine and mathematically transparent. He renders theories of Time, Eternity, Providence, Evil, Soul and In...