The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

190 ADDITIONAL NOTES.
part of Heaven from the unapparent; and on this account
poets say, that the sun and the other stars rise from the
ocean. What is now said therefore by Plato, comprehends
all the Titannic order through these two conjunctions ;
this order abiding, and at the same time proceeding. And
through the Saturnian order, indeed, it comprehends every
thing separated from the fathers ; but through that of
Ocean, every thing conjoined with the connecting Gods.
Or if you had rather so speak, through the Saturnian
order, he comprehends every maternal cause, but through
the other, every thing subservient to the paternal cause.
For the female is the cause of progression and separation,
but the male of union and stable permanency.
Of the demiurgic triad 29 which divides the whole world,
and distributes the indivisible, one, and whole fabrication
of the first Jupiter, the summit, and which has the relation
of father, is Jupiter, who, through union with the whole
demiurgic intellect having the same appellation with it, is
for this reason not mentioned here by Plato. But Neptune
is allotted the middle, and that which binds together both
the extremes ; being filled indeed from the essence of
Jupiter, but filling Pluto. For of the whole of this triad,
Jupiter indeed is the father, but Neptune the power, and
Pluto tile intellect. And all, indeed, are in all; but each
receives a different character of subsistence. Thus Jupiter
subsists according to being; but Neptune according to
power, and Pluto according to intellect. And though all
these ' divinities are the causes of the life of all things, yet
one is so essentially, another vitally, and another intellectually.
Whence also the theologist Orpheus says, that the
extremes fabricate in conjunction with Proserpine things
first and last ; the middle being coarranged with generative
cause from his own allotment, without Proserpine. Hence
violence is said to have been offered to Proserpine by Jupiter
; but she is said to have been ravished by Pluto (610 Kac 29 That is, of the first triad of the supermundane, which subsists irnme-
diately after the intellectual order.