Author

Proclus(c. 412–485 CE)

Proclus is documented in Fuller’s books and journals (1842–1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Books · Journals
Documented
1842–1845
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Proclus teaches that every life has, in its sphere, a totality or wholeness of the animating powers of the other spheres... The first triad is demiurgic or fabricative, i.e., Jupiter, Neptune, Vulcan”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Proclus

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1842—

Journal Fragments, 1842

p38
analyzed · read
“Reading Proclus and Plotinus. Yes it is very true that their thought is more sustained and virgen than any other. … The dance of the Gods is a fine passage.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p105
analyzed · read
“Proclus teaches that every life has, in its sphere, a totality or wholeness of the animating powers of the other spheres...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.