The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy
The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy
The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy
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1'10 THE MYSTICAL HYMNS<br />
Great annual God <strong>of</strong> grapes, with ivy crown'd,<br />
Bassarian, lovely, virginlike, renown'd.<br />
Come, b Zessed pow' r, regard thy mystics' voice,<br />
Propitious come, and in these rites rejoice.<br />
consequently is superior to essential intellect and intellectual<br />
vision. Hence Love, according to his first subsistence,<br />
is said to be blind, as having e superintellectual energy.<br />
This being premised, it is no longer wonderful tha't Trietericus<br />
should be called Love. "For the theologist [<strong>Orpheus</strong>],<br />
says Proclus, in Tim. lib. ii. p. 102, long before us,<br />
celebrates the demiurgic cause in Phanes. POT there, as he<br />
says, the great Bromius, or all-seeing Jupiter, was, and antecedently<br />
existed; in order that he might have as it were the<br />
fountains <strong>of</strong> the tw<strong>of</strong>old fabrication <strong>of</strong> things. He also<br />
celebrates the paradigmatic cause [i. e. Phanes] in Jupiter.<br />
For again, he likewise is, as he says, Meetis the Jirst generator,<br />
and much pleasing Love. He is also continually denominated<br />
by him Dionysius, and Phanes, and Ericapzus.<br />
All the causes, therefore, participate <strong>of</strong>, and are in each<br />
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