#Proclus

“While the ancient world's temples were closing around him, Proclus built paganism its final cathedral — not of marble, but of 211 interlocking proofs — and that cathedral, smuggled into the Middle Ages under two false names, quietly shaped a Christian civilization that thought it had defeated him.”

“All of reality — gods, minds, souls, stones — flows from a single source in one continuous, rigorously ordered chain, and every step of that chain can be proved, like a theorem in geometry.”