Proclus on the Hieratic Art According to the Greeks: Critical Edition With Translation and Commentary (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 33)

The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks . The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union, putting an emphasis on a conceptual blending of ritual actions (teletai, e.g. the role of statues, incenses, synthêmata, symbols, purifications, invocations and epiphanies) and philosophical concepts (e.g. union of many powers, 'one and many', symphathy, natural sympathies, attraction, mixing and division). Front Cover 1 ‎Half-Title Page 2 ‎Series Title Page 3 ‎Title Page 4 ‎Copyright Page 5 ‎Contents 8 ‎Preface 10 ‎Abbreviations 12 ‎Introduction 16 ‎1. Proclus’ Life and on the Orphic and Chaldaean Theologies 16 ‎2. Proclus’ Works 21 ‎2.1. Proclus’ Complete Works 21 ‎2.2. Proclus’ Lost Works or Preserved in Fragments on Theological Tradition, Orphic Theology and Theurgy 22 ‎3. Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks and His Lost Works 23 ‎4. Manuscripts 26 ‎4.1. MS Vallicellianus F 20, Fols. 138r–140v 26 ‎4.1.1. Contents of Part 1 of MS Vallicellianus F 20, Fols. i–172 27 ‎4.1.2. The Dating of MS Vallicellianus F 20, Fols. 138r–140v from Watermarks and other Sources 28 ‎4.1.3. Ficino’s Life and Works 30 ‎4.2. MS Laurentianus Plut. 10.32, Fols. 119r–121v 32 ‎4.2.1. Contents of MS Laurentianus Plut. 10.32, Fols. 1r–174v 32 ‎4.2.2. The Dating of MS Laurentianus Plut. 10.32, Fols. 119r–121v from Watermarks and other Sources 34 ‎4.2.3. Petrus Candidus’ Life and Works 34 ‎4.3. Comparison between MS V, Fols. i–144r and MS L, Fols. 1r–124r 35 ‎4.4. Ficino’s Edited Translations of Proclus’ de Sacrificio et Magia 35 ‎5. Text, Transmission, Modern Studies 37 ‎6. The Title Πρόκλου Περὶ τῆς καθ’ Ἕλληνας ἱερατικῆς τέχνης, “Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks” 38 ‎7. Book Description 41 ‎Critical Apparatus 43 ‎Text and Translation 44 ‎Commentary 53 ‎1. Hieratic Art-Theurgy, Teletai and Invocations, Sympathy, Heliotropes and Luminaries 53 ‎2. The Stages of the Hieratic/Theurgic Art 76 ‎3. The Lotus, the Sun, and the Stones 105 ‎4. Lions and Cocks, Systaseis and Symbols 113 ‎5. Mixing, One and Many, Helios, Statues and Synthêmata 123 ‎6. Direct Revelations/Epiphanies of the Gods, Purification Rituals and the Empyrean Power 137 ‎7. Energeia, “Activity” 150 ‎Appendix. MS Vallicellianus F 20 154 ‎Bibliography 161 ‎Index of Greek Words 192 ‎Index of Ancient Sources 202 ‎Index of Names and Subjects 212 Back Cover 216