The Hymns of Orpheus; Tr. from the Original Greek with a Preliminary Dissertation on the Life and Theology of Orpheus - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1150033312 ISBN 13: 9781150033315

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1792. Excerpt: ... With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide Night's torch extending, thro' the heav'ns you ride : Female and Male with borrow'd rays you shine, 5 And now full-orb'd, now tending to decline: Mother of ages, fruit-producing Moon, - » Whose amber orb makes Night's reflected noon: at one time by a divine afflatus, at another time by energising intellectually, and generating the image* of internal spectacle* moving in a discursive procession. ' For as the demiurgic intellect represents about matter the significations of primary forms comprehended in its essence ; temporal signatures of things eternal ; divisible representatives of things in divifible, and produces as it were shadowy resemblances of true beings: after the fame manner I think the science we possess, framing an intellectual action, fabricates by discourse both the resemblances of other things, and of the Gods themselves. So that it sJhions by composition, that which in the Gods is void of composition : thatwhichisfimplebyvaricty; and that which is united by multitude. And by this formation of names it demonstrates in the last place the images of divine concerns. And as the theurgic art provokes by certain signs, supernal illumination into artificial statutes, and allures the unenvying goodness of the Gods; in the fame manner the intellectual science of divine concerns, signifies the occult essence of the God by the compositions and divisions of sounds. Ver. 2.] Bull-horned. For the mystical reason os this appellation, see note to the third line, of the Hymn to Protogonus. Ver. 5.] Female and Mali. This is not wondersul, since according to the fragment of Ficinus in thisDissertation, ail fouls and the celestial spheres are endued with a two-fold power, nostic and animating; one of which is male and the other semale. An...

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