The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

OF ORPHEUS.
Agile and vig'rous, venerable Sun,
Fiery and bright around the heav'ns you run,
Foe to the wicked, but the good man's guide,
O'er all his steps propitious you preside.
With various-sounding golden lyre 'tis thine
To fill the world with harmony divine.
Father of ages, guide of prosp'rous deeds,
The world's commander, borne by lucid steeds.
Immortal JoveZ1, flute-playing, bearing light,
Source of existence, pure and fiery bright ;
Bearer of fruit, almighty lord of years,
Agile and warm, whom ev'ry power reveres.
Bright eye, that round the world incessant flies,
Doom'd with fair fulgid rays to set and rise ;
Dispensing justice, lover of the stream,
The world's great master, and o'er all supreme.
Faithful defender22, and the eye of right,
Of steeds the ruler, and of life the light:
21 As all the celestial spheres are replete with proces-
sions from all the supermundane deities, which processions
are the satellites of the leading divinities of these spheres,
as we have shown in the Introduction, the reason is obvious
why the sun is called Jupiter, a solar Jupiter being one of
his attendants. But there is also another reason for this
appellation. For what Jupiter is in the intellectual that
the Sun is in the sensible order of things. Hence Proclus,
in Theol. Plat. p. 289, calls the sun ~aaiX~us TOU savTos,
the king of the universe.
22 Proclus, in Tim. lib. 5, informs us, in the words of
Orpheus, 071 ~Xtov pev ETECT~QE TOLS OXOLS o ~~~ILLLOUPYOS, KUL