The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

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edition of Thomas Taylor's translation of cc Iam-
blichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians," &c.,
it was promised that other of Taylor's translations
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" The Mystical Initiations ; or, Hymns of Or-
pheus," as the work was originally called, was first
published in 1787. A second edition, cc with con-
siderable emendations, alterations, and additions,"
was published in 1824. Of this second edition
the present reprint (being the third issue of the
work) is an almost exact facsimile. The original
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