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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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Kai ; M ~ ~ T~WTOS L s ~EYETWP, K(LL EPWS aoXur~p?nqs*<br />

sums re o Aiovv~os Kai $avvs Kai ~piKETaios, ovve~ws ovopa-<br />

{erai* ravra apa p~rei)lyxr)v aAXqXwu ra atria, ~ aev i aAAqXors<br />

ErTLV.

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