The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

ADDITIONAL NOTES. 197
the vivific causes is triple : for it is conjoined with the
fountains prior to itself : is present with its kindred coordinate
natures ; and coenergizes with the orders posterior to
itself. For it is present with the mother prior to itself,
convertiwely (enrarpcnri~ws) ; with Proserpine posterior to
itself, providentially (apovo~rt~ws) ; and with Juno coordinate
to itself with an arnato~y energy (~pauprwr). Hence
Jupiter is said to be enamoured of Juno,
As now I love thee,-
And this love indeed is legal, but the other two appear to
be illegal. This Goddess therefore produces from herself,
in conjunction with the demiurgus and father, all the genera
of souls, the supermundane and mundane, the celestial and
sublunary, the divine, angelic, demoniacal, and partial.
After a certain manner too, she is divided from the demi-
urgus, but in a certain respect she is united to him : for
Jupiter is said, in the Philebus, to contain a royal intellect
and a royal soul. For he contains uniformly the paternal
and maternal cause of the world ; and the fountain of souls
is said to be in Jupiter ; just as again the intelligence of
Jupiter is said to be first participated by Juno. For no
other divinity, says Jupiter in Homer, knows my mind
prior to Juno. Through this ineffable union therefore of
these divinities, the world participates of intellectual souls.
They also give subsistence to intellects who are carried
in souls, and who together with them give completion to
the whole fabrication of things.
The series of our sovereign mistress Juno, beginning
from on high, pervades to the last of things ; and her allot-
ment in the sublunary region is the air. For air is a
symbol of soul, according to which also soul is called a
spirit (avsvpa) ; just as $re is an image of intellect, but
water of natulre, by which the world is nourished (77s KOG-
37 Iliad, xiv. 328.