The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

THE MYSTICAL HYMNS
XXXII.
A HYMN.
ONLY-BEGOTTEN, noble race of Jove,
Blessed and fierce, who joy'st in caves to rove :
0 warlike Pallas, whose illustrious kind,
Ineffable, and effable we find :
Magnanimous and fam'd, the rocky height,
And groves, and shady mountains thee delight :
In arms rejoicing, who with furies dire
And wild the souls of mortals dost inspire.
59 The supermundane vivific triad consists (as we are
informed by Proclus in Plat. Theol. p. 371) of three zoogo-
mic monads ; and these are Diana, Proserpine, and Minerw,.
'$And of these (says he) the highest or first is arranged
according to hyparxis p. e. the summit of essence]; the
second acqording to power, which is definitive of life ; and
the third according to vivijc intellect. Theologists, also,
are accustomed to call the first Coric Diana; the second
P~oserpine; and the third Coric Miiinerva. I mean that they
are thus denominated by the primary leaders of the Grecian
theology. For by the Barbarians, likewise [i. e. the Chal-
dean theologists], the same things are manifested through
other names. For they call the first monad Hecate; the
middle monad Soul; and the third Virtzce." Conformably
to this, Psellus, in his Exposition of the Chaldaic Dogmas,
says : TWY 8~ SSr)o~ou~v (LpXuY, ?f ~ E Y
atcporBs EKQT~] KU~ELTUL*