The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

ADDITIONAL NOTES. 177
they become refulgent with the furrows of inflexible and
implacable fire."
NOVS sarpoy ~ ~ U L O L P
A~vap?r~ov aurpanrovacv ~ ~ELX~KTOV
ETOXOVPEYOS L~VYT~PGIY
nvpos O~KOLI.
He is therefore pure intellect, as giving subsistence to the
undefiled order, and as being the leader of the whole intel-
lectual series.
AVTOV yap EK~PWCKOV~~V ~~€lh1~~01
T€ K€paVUOl,
Kai ?rpq~r~po8o~oi ~oX?roi aap$eyytos ~XKVS*
IIarpoy~vovs E ~ar~s, K ~ vnefi~os
L rupos aveos,
H ~ tcparaiov E ?rucv,ua ?roXwv ~upiwr ETEKELV~.
i. e. "From him leap forth the implacable thunders, and
the prester-capacious bosoms of the all-splendid strength
of the father-begotten Hecate, together with the environed
flower of fire, and the strong spirit which is beyond the
fiery poles."
For he conrolves all the hebdomad of the fountains16,
and gives subsistence to it, from his unical and intelligible
summit. For he is, as the Oracles say, apiur~hh~~ros,
uncut into fragments, uniform, and undistributed, and con-
nectedly contains all the fountains, converting and uniting
all of them to himself, and being separate from all things
with immaculate purity. Hence he is ~opovovs, as an
immaterial and pure intellect, and as establishing himself
in the paternal silence. He is also celebrated as the father
of fathers. Saturn, therefore, is a father, and intelligible,
as with reference to the intellectual Gods.
Again, every intellect either abides, and is then intelli-
gible, as being better than motion ; or it is moved, and is then
intellectual ; or it is both, and is then intelligible, and at
the same time intellectual. The first of these is Phanes ;
16 That is of the whole intellectual order, which consists of Saturn,
Rhea, Jupiter, the three Curetes, and the separating monad Ocean.
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