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. 175<br />
intellect, or <strong>of</strong> that which unfolds into light (EK#~YTO~IKOS<br />
vous), or <strong>of</strong> that which connectedly contains (auvs~~i~os<br />
vavs), or <strong>of</strong> that which imparts perfection16 (reX~aiovpyos<br />
vovs), Saturn will be as the dianoetic part to all these.<br />
For he produces united intellection into multitude, and fills<br />
himself wholly with excited intelligibles. Whence also he<br />
is said to be the leader <strong>of</strong> the Titannic race, and the source<br />
<strong>of</strong> all-various separation and diversifying power. And<br />
perhaps Plato here primarily delivers tw<strong>of</strong>old interpreta-<br />
tions <strong>of</strong> the name <strong>of</strong> the Titans, which Iamblicus and Ame-<br />
lius afterwards adopted. For the one interprets this name<br />
from the Titans extending their powers to all things; but<br />
the other from something inseetile (rapa TO rc aropov), be-<br />
cause the division and separation <strong>of</strong> wholes into parts<br />
receives its beginning from the Titans. Socrates therefore<br />
now indicates both these interpretations, by asserting <strong>of</strong> the<br />
king <strong>of</strong> the Titans that he is a certain great dianoetic power.<br />
For the term great is a symbol <strong>of</strong> power pervading to all<br />
things ; but the term a certain, <strong>of</strong> power proceeding to the<br />
most partial natures.<br />
<strong>The</strong> name Saturn is now triply analysed; <strong>of</strong> which the<br />
first asserting this God to be the plenitude <strong>of</strong> intellectual<br />
good, and to be the satiety <strong>of</strong> a divine intellect, from its<br />
conveying an image <strong>of</strong> the satiety and repletion which are<br />
reprobated by the many, is ejected as insolent. <strong>The</strong> second<br />
also, which exhibits the imperfect and the puerile, is in like<br />
manner rejected. But the third, which celebrates this God<br />
as full <strong>of</strong> purity, and as the leader <strong>of</strong> undefiled intelligence,<br />
and an undeviating life, is approved. For king Saturn is<br />
intellect, and the supplier <strong>of</strong> all intellectual life ; but he is<br />
an intelligible exempt from coordination with sensibles,<br />
immaterial and separate, and converted to himself. He<br />
likewise converts his progeny, and after producing them<br />
15 Of these intellects the first is Phanen, the second Heaven, the third<br />
Earth, and the fourth the Subcelestial Arch, which is celebrated in the<br />
Ph~drus, viz. vovs VO~TOS o Gavqs, e~$avropi~os vovs o Oupavos, UVYEKTLKOS<br />
vous rl yq, rchea~oupyoc 6e VGVS 7 vrr'ovpavbos a$cs.