The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

ADDITIONAL NOTES. 189
But the ruling Jupiter, who ranks as a principle, and
who is coordinate with the three sons of Saturn, governs
the third part of the whole of things, according to that of
Horn er,
A triple distribution all things own.
He is also the summit of the three, has the same name with
the fontal Jupiter, is united to him, and is monadically
called Jupiter. But the second is called dyadically, marine
Jupiter, and Neptune. And the third is triadically deno-
minated terrestrial Jupiter, Pluto, and Hades. The first of
these also preserves, fabricates, and vivifies summits, but
the second, things of a second rank, and the third those of
a third order. Hence this last is said to have ravished
Proserpine, that together with her he might animate the
extremities of the universe.
The Titannic order dividing itself from the connecting
order of Heaven, but having also something in itself abiding,
and connascent with that order, Saturn is the leader of the
separation, and on this account he both arms others against
his father, and receives the scythe 28 from his mother,
through which he divides his own kingdom from that of
Heaven. But Ocean is coordinated with those that abide
in the manners of the father, and guards the middle of the
two orders ; so far as a Titan being connumerated with the
Gods that subsist with Saturn ; but so far as rejoicing in
a coordination with Heaven, conjoining himself with the
Synoches. For it is fit that he who bounds the first and
second orders should be arranged in the middle of the
natures that are bounded. But every where this God is
allotted a power of this kind, and separates the genera of
the Gods, the Titannic from the connecting (rwv ovvoxtxwv),
and the vivific from the demiurgic. Whence also ancient
rumour calls Ocean the God who separates the apparent
27 Iliad, xv. 189. 28 See the Theogony of Hesiod, v. 176, &c.