The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

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porpo@ov $weus), through which all nutriment and increase
are produced. But earth is the image of body, through its
gross and material nature. Hence Homer, obscurely signifying
this, represents Juno suspended with two anvils
under her feet : for the air is allotted two heavy elements
beneath itself.
For
~Xiou 8' aKapaWa /300ais Torvia ~pv
TE~$EU ET' uKEavoio poas.
i.e. "Fair-eyed venerable Juno sent the sun to the streams
of the ocean,"-is from the same conception.
For he calls the thick cloud produced by Juno the setting
of the sun. The assertiorl likewise that the end of this
name will be conjoined with the beginning, if any one frequently
repeats the name of the Goddess, evinces the conversion
of rational souls to her which proceed from her ;
and that voice is air that is struck. On this account also
the voice of rational animals is especially dedicated to this
Goddess, who made the horse of Achilles to become vocal.
But Socrates now delivers these three vivific monads in a
consequent order, viz. Ceres, Juno, Proserpine ; calling the
first the mother, the second the sister, and the third the
daughter of the demiurgus. All of them however are partakers
of the whole of fabrication; the first in an exempt
manner and intellectually, the second in a fontal manner,
and at the same time in a way adapted to a principle
(ap~c~os), and the third in a manner adapted to a principle
and leader ( ap~i~ws Kac ~~E~OYLKWS).
Of these Goddesses the last possesses triple powers, and
impartibly and uniformly comprehends three monads of
Gods. But she is called Core (wop~) through the purity of
her essence, and her undefiled transcendency in her generations.
She also possesses a first, middle, and last empire.
And according to her summit, indeed, she is called Diana
by Orpheus ; but according to her middle Proserpine ; and
according to the extremity of the order Minerva. Likewise,
according to an hyparxis transcending the other