St Denis as Cephalophore

(St. Denis has been conflated with Pseudo-Dionysius)

Proclus on Cognition

"Every cognition through similitude binds the knower to that which is known: to the sensible or object of sense-perception the perceptive cognition, to cognizable objects discursive reason, to intelligible objects intelligible cognition, and therefore also to that which is prior to intellect the flower of the intellect is correspondent. "(Proclus, Commentary on the Chaldaean Oracles cited in Johnson 1988: 125)

Proclus on power (snippets from a google books search)

Rosan But for Proclus, "power" has a much more tangible character, particularly external power, although it corresponds to the Plotinian "power," while potential power corresponds to the Aristotelian "power." Internal power corresponds to ...

Siorvanes p.100 But for Proclus, "power" has a much more tangible character, particularly external power, although it corresponds to the Plotinian "power," while potential power corresponds to the Aristotelian "power." Internal power corresponds to ... http://goo.gl/0ngpz

Van Den Berg Proclus' hymns p.268
This interpretation of hands as anagogic powers fits well in the context of this hymn, for vss. 6-12 are a request for the elevation of Proclus' soul to the divine realm. The image is recurrent in Neoplatonic circles, see eg Hermeias In ...

Helen S. Lang, Anthony David Macro
As Proclus' argument proceeds, since being is a power and the being of the pattern is eternal, the pattern exercises the power of being a pattern, ie, produces a copy, eternally.

The philosophical and mathematical commentaries of Proclus v.2p.367
Every being in capacity, emanates from- that which is energy ; and that which is in capacity proceeds into energy. ... All power or capacity i* either persect, or impersect. J* OR- that which produces energy is a persect power : for it ...

Berg, Proclus' commentary on the Cratylus in context p.97
Cf., eg, Proclus In Parm. IV 864, 23–28: the human soul may be divided into various powers of apprehension. How we apprehend reality depends on the power that is active ( μ, μ ). If this power happens to be sense-perception we shall ...