LIST OF FIGURES ........................................... vChapterI. INTRODUCTION: THOMAS AQUINAS, PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS,AND NEOPLATONISM.............................. 1II. WESTERN INTERPRETERS OF ON THE DIVINE NAMES BEFORETHOMAS AQUINAS: FROM ERIUGENA TO JOHN SARRACEN... 32 The Transmission of Pseudo-Dionysiusto the West ................................... 32The Dionysian Corpus in the Thirteenth Century. 34John Scottus Eriugena ........................ 38The Periphyseon.......................... 39The Versio Dionysii ..................... 57The Twelfth Century: John Sarracen ........... 61III. WESTERN INTERPRETERS OF ON THE DIVINE NAMES BEFORETHOMAS AQUINAS: THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY........... 69Introduction .................................. 69Thomas Gallus ................................. 70Albert the Great .............................. 75IV. COSMIC STRUCTURE IN THOMAS AQUINAS' COMMENTARY ONTHE DIVINE NAMES: PROCESSION.................... 96Introduction: Types of Causality ............. 96Procession ................................... 100The G o o d ..................................... 107Beauty and Love .............................. 116Esse ......................................... 124V. CONSERVATION................................... 140Introduction ................................. 140Participation and Similitude ................ 141Exemplars and Preexistence .................. 147God as First Exemplar....................... 155Virtue, Justice, and Peace .................. 163VI. RETURN.......................................... 172Introduction ................................. 172Metaphysical Order and Grades of Being ...... 172 and more