Enjoyed last week's post, and thanks for running with this series (and all the resource links).
This is where things get hairy, for sure, but also some clarity should emerge. Per Taylor's note, and in the sense that the gods are the ontological basis of all (the substrate, as it were), and that they are self-perfect individuals and utterly complete, they don't have bodies, per se, although they can arguably manifest in any form they so choose. Conceivably, this could be extended to powers, as well--any power, given that all things participate in some way the gods, might be ascribed to the gods (and thus utilized by the gods), although I sense that each individual has their particular proclivities. This is, at least, how I understand it.
For Taylor's comment on the relationship of the gods to The One, I would cross-reference Proclus's Elements, particularly starting with Propositions CXIV-CXX.
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This is where things get hairy, for sure, but also some clarity should emerge. Per Taylor's note, and in the sense that the gods are the ontological basis of all (the substrate, as it were), and that they are self-perfect individuals and utterly complete, they don't have bodies, per se, although they can arguably manifest in any form they so choose. Conceivably, this could be extended to powers, as well--any power, given that all things participate in some way the gods, might be ascribed to the gods (and thus utilized by the gods), although I sense that each individual has their particular proclivities. This is, at least, how I understand it.
For Taylor's comment on the relationship of the gods to The One, I would cross-reference Proclus's Elements, particularly starting with Propositions CXIV-CXX.
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