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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ADDITIONAL NOTES. 167<br />
series, and who produces and gives s~tbsistence to all nnapparent<br />
and apparent natures. And he is indeed intellectual,<br />
according to the order in which he ranks, but he<br />
produces the species and the genera <strong>of</strong> beings into the<br />
order <strong>of</strong> sensibles. He is likewise filled with the Gods<br />
above himself, but imparts from himself a progression into<br />
being to all mundane natures. Hence <strong>Orpheus</strong> 4 represents<br />
him fabricating every celestial race, making the sun and<br />
moon and the other starry Gods, together with the sublunary<br />
elements, and diversifying the latter with forms<br />
which before had a disordered subsistence. He likewise<br />
represents him presiding over the Gods who are distributed<br />
about the whole world, and who are suspended from him;<br />
and in the character <strong>of</strong> a legislator assigning distributions<br />
<strong>of</strong> proviclence in the universe according to desert to all<br />
the mundane Gods. Homer too, following <strong>Orpheus</strong>, celebrates<br />
him as the common father <strong>of</strong> Gods and men, as<br />
leader and king, and as the supreme <strong>of</strong> rulers. He also<br />
says that all the multitude <strong>of</strong> mundane Gods is collected<br />
about him, abides in and is perfected by him. For all the<br />
mundane Gods are coriverted to Jupiter through <strong>The</strong>mis,<br />
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fore are excited according to the one will <strong>of</strong> Jupiter, and<br />
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