Fragments that Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780766127401
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Metaphysics; Philosophy
First sentence: IF with respect to light, one kind is material, but another immaterial, according to the difference of those illuminating natures, fire and the sun, the light which in immaterial is, in a certain respect, corrupted; but material light, in a certain respect, pervades through material substances: for the whole air appears to be no less illuminated by the sun than by the fire that is procured by us.