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The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

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xviii INTRODUCTION,<br />

ing potential, as that was paternal. Hence<br />

the third procession <strong>of</strong> this triad is dark<br />

Erebus : its paternal and summit &her, not<br />

according to a simple but intellectual sub-<br />

sistence : but its middle infinite chaos, con-<br />

sidered as a progeny or procession, and among<br />

these parturient, because from these the third<br />

intelligible triad proceeds. What then is<br />

the third intelligible triad ? I answer, the<br />

egg ; the duad <strong>of</strong> the natures <strong>of</strong> male and<br />

female which it contains, and the multitude<br />

<strong>of</strong> all-various seeds, residing in the middle<br />

<strong>of</strong> this triad : And the third among these is<br />

an incorporeal God, bearing golden wings on<br />

his shoulders; but in his inward parts natu-<br />

rally possessing the heads <strong>of</strong> bulls, upon<br />

which heads a mighty dragon appears, in-<br />

vested with the all-various forms <strong>of</strong> wild<br />

beasts. This last then must be considered<br />

as the intellect <strong>of</strong> the triad; but the middle<br />

progeny, which are many as well as two, cor-<br />

respond to power, and the egg itself is the<br />

paternal principle <strong>of</strong> the third triad : but the<br />

third God <strong>of</strong> this third triad, this theology<br />

celebrates as Protogonus, and calls him Jupi-<br />

ter, the disposer <strong>of</strong> all things and <strong>of</strong> the<br />

whole world; and on this account denomi-<br />

nates him Pan. And such is the information

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