Good question, but no, I don't think so: Proclus is speaking here of a timeless process. Eternal things, once caused, don't change in their complexity; rather, he's sketching the "shape" of the cosmos as a whole using an ontological argument.
I think what Proclus will ultimately be aiming at through this is that the One and the highest gods are simple, and that the building blocks of the universe (e.g. matter) are simple, but that the many and multifarious beings descended from the gods and made of those building blocks are complex.
To put it another way, your body is a far more complex thing than either your soul, on the one hand, or your cells, on the other.
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Date: 2023-10-22 10:27 am (UTC)I think what Proclus will ultimately be aiming at through this is that the One and the highest gods are simple, and that the building blocks of the universe (e.g. matter) are simple, but that the many and multifarious beings descended from the gods and made of those building blocks are complex.
To put it another way, your body is a far more complex thing than either your soul, on the one hand, or your cells, on the other.