The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

OF ORPHEUS.
Blest Phrygian God, the most august of all,
Come aid thy mystics, when on thee they call.
and encircling the fig leaves that bind her temples with a
dragon, receives Dionysius [or Bacchus]. For with the
most divine part of herself, she becomes the receptacle of
an intellectual essence, and receives the mundane intellect,
which proceeds into her from the thigh of Jupiter. For
there it was united with Jupiter ; but proceeding from
thence, and becoming participsble by her, it elevates her to
the intelligible, and to the fountain of her nature. For she
hastens to the mother of the Gods, and to mount Ida [i. e.
to the region of ideas, and an intelligible nature], from
which all the series of souls is derived. Hence, also, Ippa
is said to have received Dionysius when he was brought
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