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Proclus acknowledged that his enlightenment and philosophy came from above—indeed he believed himself to be one through whom divine revelation reached mankind. “He did not appear to be without divine inspiration,” his disciple Marinus wrote, “for he produced from his wise mouth words similar to the most thick falling snow; so that his eyes emitted a bright radiance, and the rest of his countenance participated of divine illumination.”[1]

  1. Victor Cousin and Thomas Taylor, trans., Two Treatises of Proclus, The Platonic Successor (London: n.p., 1833), p. vi.