Taylor - Theoretic Arithmetic.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

excite the glad husbandmen to the collection of necessary
aliment; who well pleased deposit the food they have collected
for diurnal use. The sun too, the leader of the day, by producing
two equinoxes in every year, in spring and in autumn; the
vernal in Aries, but the autumnal in Libra, procures the most
manifest credibility of divine majesty about the' hebdomad.
For each of the equinoxes takes place in the seventh month, at
which times the law orders the greatest and most public festivals
to be celebrated; since in both these, the fruits of the
earth arrive at perfection; in spring indeed, corn and other
seminations; but in autumn the produce of the vine, and of
most other trees. Since also terrestrial are suspended from celestial
natures according to a certain physical sympathy, the
productive principle of the hebdomad originating supernally
descends as far as to us, that mortal genera may be partakers of
its advent.
Our soul also, the ruling part excepted, is divided into seven
parts, viz. the five senses, the vocal organ, and the generative
power; all which as in admirable machines, being drawn by
the ruling part as if by secret strings, at one time are at rest,
and at another time, in motion, and each according to appropriate
habitudes and motions. In a similar manner likewise, if
any one endeavors to explore the internal and external parts of
the body, he will find that in each of these there are seven.
The parts therefore, that are obvious are these, the head, the
breast, the belly, the two hands and the two feet. But the
internal parts which are called the viscera are, the stomach, the
heart, the lungs, the spleen, the liver, and the two kidneys.
Again, the most ruling part in the animal, the head, employs
seven most necessary parts, two eyes, an equal number of ears,
two nostrils, and in the seventh place the mouth, through
which, as Plato says, there is an ingress of mortal, but an
egress of immortal natures. For meat and drink indeed enter
into it, which are the corruptible nutriment of the corruptible