The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

168 ADDITIONAL NOTES.
become 810s evdou 6, within Jupite~, as the poet says. Jupiter
too again sephates them within himself, according to two
coordinations, and excites them to providential energies
about secondary natures; he at the same time, as Timreus
says, abiding after his accustomed manner ;
i. e. " Thus spoke Saturnian Jupiter, and excited inevitable
war." Jupiter however is separate and exempt from all
mundane natures ; whence also the most total and leading
of the other Gods, though they appear to have in a certain
respect equal authority with Jupiter, through a progression
from the same causes, yet call hitn father. For both Nep-
tune and Juno celebrate him by this appellation. And
though Juno speaks to him as one who is of the same
order,
KaL yap €yo Beos EL~L* YEYOS 8e POL €Y~EY O~EV UOL,
KUL pe xpea/3urarvv TEKETO K~OYOS ~ ~ K U X O ~ 8. ~ T L S
i. e. "For I also am a divinity, and Saturn, of inflected
council, endowed me with the greatest dignity, when he
begot me."
And though Neptune says,
rpets' yap T'EK KPOVOU EL,UEV U~EX~EOI, ous TEKE PE~V,
ZEUS Kal EYW, TPlTaTOS 8' A'tal]~ EVEPOlQlV UV(LQQWV '.
i. e. " For we are three brothers from Saturn, whom Rhea
bore, Jupiter and I, and the third is Pluto, who governs the
infernal realms : "
Yet Jupiter is called father by both these divinities ; and
this because he comprehends in himself the one and im-
partible cause of all fabrication ; is prior to the Saturnian
6 See the 14th line.
8 Iliad, iv. 58.
7 Ibid, 32.
9 Iliad, xv. 187.