Proclus Lycaeus (412 - 485)

Proclus holds the One (Neoplatonist unifying divine principle beyond being and thought) as the origin of the entire existence. The One fosters the Intellect situated outside time, and it is due to this divine Mind that multiplicity is possible in both thought and existence. Processuality arises with the Intellect's temporal product, the Soul, whose individual occurrences tend to be overpowered by the material world. Man will attain freedom only insomuch as he can, through reason, liberate his soul from the domination of bodily passions.