Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

"Bacchic Mysteries. 113the self-revealing image was only a diffusiveshining light, as the name partly declares." *But this is a piece of gross ignorance, fromwhich he might have been freed by an attentive perusal of Proclus on the Timcens ofPlato :ries we learn,for in these truly divine Commentathat the moonf isthe causeof nature to mortals, and the self-revealingimage of the fountain of nature."aiTca iocs d-VTjTOtc TV]? <poGcoc,EeXTO aotoxcovojaa nrjc xrjatac <puaea>s.If the reader isdesirous of knowing what we are to understand by the fountain of nature of which themoon is the image, let him attend to the following information, derived from a long anddeep study of the ancient theology :for fromhence I have learned, that there are manydivine fountains contained in the essence ofthe demiurgus of the world ;and that amongthese there are three of a very distinguishedrank, namely, the fountain of souls, or Juno,the fountain of virtues, or Minerva and* Divine Legation, p. 231.t /. e. The Mother-Goddess, Isis or Demeter, symbolized asSelene or the Moon.