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172 ADDITIONAL NOTES, energies of their offspring. Nor again, when it is said that Gods are the sons of more total Gods, must it be supposed that they are disjoined from more ancient causes, and are cut off from a union with them : or that they receive the peculiarity of their hyparxis through motion, and an indefiniteness converting itself to bound. For there is nothing irrational and without measure in the natures superior to us. But we must conceive that their progressions are effected through similitude ; and that there is one communion of essence, and an indivisible continuity of powers and energies, between the sons of Gods and their fathers ; all those Gods that rank in the second order being established in such as are more ancient ; and the more ancient imparting much of perfection, vigour, and efficacious production to the subordinate. And after this manner we must understand that Jupiter is said to be the son of Saturn. For Jupiter, being the demiurgic intellect, proceeds from another intellect, superior and more uniform, which increases indeed its proper intellections, but converts the multitude of them to union ; and multiplies its intellectual powers, but elevates their all-various evolutions to impartible sameness. Jupiter theref ore proximately establishing a communion with this divinity, and being filled from him with total intellectual good, is very properly said to be the son of Saturn, both in hymns and in invocations, as unfolding into light that which is occult, expanding that which is contracted, and dividing that which is impartible in the Saturnian monad ; and as emitting a second more partial kingdom, instead of that which is more total, a demiurgic instead of a paternal dominion, and an empire which proceeds every where instead of that which stably abides in itself. Why does Socrates apprehend the name of king Saturn to be v~piu~~~ov, insolent, and looking to what does he assert this? We reply, that according to the poets satiety (~opos) is the cause of insolence; for they thus denominate immoderation and repletion ; and they say that Satiety brought forth hsolence (vpptv $acrtv TLKTEL KOPOS). He there-
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 173 fore who looks without attention to the name of Saturn will consider it as signifying insolence. For to him who suddenly hears it, it manifests satiety and repletion. Why therefore, since a name of this kind is expressive of insolence, do we not pass it over in silence, as not being auspicious and adapted to the Gods? May we not say that the royal series l4 of the Gods, beginning with Phanes and ending in Bacchus, and producing the same sceptre super- nally as far as to the last kingdom, Saturn being allotted the fourth royal order, appears according to the fabulous pretext, differently from the other kings, to have received the sceptre insolently from Heaven, and to have given it to Jupiter ? For Night receives the sceptre from Phanes ; 14 This royal series consists of Phanes, Night, Heaven, Saturn, Jupiter, Bacchus. "Ancient theologists (says Syrianus, in his Commentary on the fourteenth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics) assert that Night and Heaven reigned, and prior to these the mighty father of Night and Heaven, who distributed the world to Gods and mortals, and who first possessed royal authority, the illustrious Ericapeus. Night succeeded Ericapeus, in the hands of whom she has a sceptre : To Night Heaven succeeded, who first reigned over the Gods after mother Night. Chaos transcends the habitude of sovereign dominion : and, with respect to Jupiter, the oracles given to him by Night manifestly call him not the first, but the fifth immortal king of the Gods. According to these theologists therefore, that principle which is most emiuently the first, is the one or the good, after which, according to Pythagoras, are those two principles Bther and Chaos, which are superior to the possession of sovereign dominion. In the next place succeed the first and occult genera of the Gods, in which first shines forth the father and king of all wholes, and whom on this account they call Phanes."
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THE MYSTICAL HYMNS OF ORPHEUS.
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ADVERTISEMENT. IN the ' Advertiseme
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INTRODUCTION. THE Grecian theology,
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INTRODUCTION, ix age, possessed a d
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INTRODUCTION. xi ineffable evolutio
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INTRODUCTION. xiii highest things a
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INTRODUCTION. XV simply considered,
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INTRODUCTION, xvii the God himself.
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INTRODUCTION. xix which this theolo
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INTRODUCTION. xxi the intelligible
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INTRODUCTION. xxiii causally perman
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ISTRODUCTION. xxv tion of which all
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INTRODUCTION. xxvii venerable excel
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INTRODUCTION. xxix by any other mod
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INTRODUCTION. xxxi others about the
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INTRODUCTION. xxxiii of celestial G
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INTRODUCTION. xxxv mysteries, or ha
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INTRODUCTION. xxxvii Farther still,
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INTRODUCTION. xlv as from a perenni
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INTRODUCTION. xlvii himself ; night
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INTRODUCTIOK. xlix So great indeed
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INTRODUCTION. li bians; and on this
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INTRODUCTION. liii With respect to
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that such a pursuit must be a great
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THE LEARN, 0 Musaeus, from my sacre
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OF ORPHEUS. Saturn and Rhea, and gr
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End and Beginning (greatest this to
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OF ORPHEUS. 9 Guard of the race, en
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OF ORPHEUS. I I Hear, blessed Venus
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OF ORPHEUS. Dissolving anxious care
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OF ORPHEUS. By Fate's decree you co
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OF ORPHEUS. TO ETHER. THE FUMIGATIO
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Ericapous, celebrated pow'l; Ineffa
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OF ORPHEUS. v I I. TO THE STARS. TH
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OF ORPHEUS. Agile and vig'rous, ven
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OF ORPHEUS. With stars surrounded,
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OF ORPHEUS. Mother of ages, fruit-p
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OF ORPHEUS. THE FUMIGATION FROM ARO
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OF ORPHEUS. Pure ornament of all th
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Ol? ORPHEUS. Thron'd on a circling
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OF ORPHEUS. 35 Thee, shepherds, str
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OF ORPHEUS. XI I. TO HERCULES. HEAR
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OF ORPHEUS. Thy mighty head support
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XIV. THE FUMIGATION FROM AROMATLCS.
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OF ORPHEUS, 43 Thou joy'st in mount
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OF ORPHETJS. 45 Mother of Gods and
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OF ORPHEUS. Ev'n Nature trembles at
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OF ORPHEUS. 49 Propitious hear my p
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XVII. THE FUMIGATION FROM MYRRH. HE
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OF ORPHEUS, 53 Thy throne is fix'd
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The sea all-shining, and each beast
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OF ORPHEUS. XXI. TO THE CLOUDS. THE
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XXIII. THE FUMIGATION FROM MYREH. 0
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OF ORPHEUS. xxv. TO PROTEUS 49. PRO
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OF ORPHEUS. XXVII. TO THE MOTHER OF
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OF OEPHEUS. 65 With winged feet 'ti
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Whose holy form in budding fruits w
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OF ORPHEUS. XXXI. TO THE CURETES. A
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OF ORPHEUS. Gymnastic virgin of ter
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OF ORPHEUS, Hear me, 0 Goddess, whe
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OF ORPHEUS. XXXIII. TO VICTORY. THE
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OF ORPHEUS. 77 Rural, light-bearer,
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OF ORPHEUS. 79 The world's wide bou
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OF ORPHEUS. 81 Now the last string
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OF ORPHEUS. All Nature's tribes to
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OF ORPHEUS, She in Ortygia's honour
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OF ORPIIEUS. TO THE TITANS. THE FUM
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OF ORPI-IEUS. XXXVIII. TO THE CURET
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OF ORPHEUS. XXXIX. TO CORYBAS 75. T
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OF ORPHEUS. In verdure flourishing,
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XLII. TO MISA. THE FURTIGATION FROM
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OF ORPHEUS. 97 All-colour'd Seasons
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OF ORPHEUS. X LV. TO DIONYSIUS BASS
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OF ORPHEUS, XLVII. TO BACCHUS PERIC
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OF ORPHEUS. Blest Phrygian God, the
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OF ORPHEUS. A HYMN, HEAR me, Jove's
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OF ORPHEUS. 107 With Pan exulting o
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OF ORPHEUS, 109 Liknitan Bacchus, p
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OF ORPHEUS. LIII. TO AMPHIETUS BACC
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OF ORPI-IEUS. TO VENUS. A HYMN. HEA
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OF ORPHEUS, LVI. TO ADONIS. THE FUM
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OF ORPHEUS. LVIII. THE FUMIGATION F
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OF ORPHEUS, Of all that Ceres' fert
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