Part IX.

PTTH AGORA S.
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CHAP. VIII.
Of the Rational Van of the Soul, the Mind.
IN Pythagoras his Definition of the SouL A f elf-moving Number, (a) Plutarch faith,
^'2. ^ takes Number for Mirid. (b) ThQ Mind, y??, it\
induced into the Soul, ab extrinjeco, from with-' M Clem (^) t>y divine participation,
fci. ftror^ 5. (0 delibated of the Univerfal Divine Mind, for {i) Cic. dc (e) there is a Soul intent and commeant through Icncft. the whole Nature of things, from which our
pluck’d, (f) She is immortal, becaufc f^^’uert. which Ihe is taken, is immortal ^
yet not a God, but the w^ork of the eternal Cc) dear. lufc. God. Thus (g) Pythagoras exceedingly confirm- qfuft, I. ed the Opinion ot' his Mafter Pherecides, who firft taught, that the Souls of Men are fempiter- nal.
(A) Anon. (^) Souls (faid he^ confift of a Tetrad, Mind, Science, Opinion, Senfe : from which pro¬ ceeds all Art and Science, and^ by which we our felves are Rational. The mind therefore is a Monad, for the mind confidereth according to a Monad. As for Example ^ There are many men^ thefe one by one are incomprehenfi- ble by Senfe, and innumerable, but we under- ftand this, one Man, to which none hath Re- femblance-, and we uneferftand one Horfe, for the Particulars are- innumerable. Thus every Genus and Species is according to Monad, wherefore to every one in particular they ap¬ ply this Definition, A Rational Creature, or, A ' Neighing Creature. Hence is the mind a Monad, whereby we under ftand thefe things. The in¬ determinate Duad is Science : for all demonftra- tion, and all belief of Science, and like wife all Syllogifm from fome things granted, inferrs that which is doubted, a;id ealily demonftrateth ano¬ ther thing, the comprehenfion whereof is Science, therefore it is as the Duad. Opinion is juftly a Triad, being of mar^y.- Triad implies a multi-
' tude, as. Thrice happy Greeks-- - [The reft of the
SText is wanting.
0)Anm,ipai (i) The Pythagoreans aflert Eight Organs 61 PM^devic. Knowledge, Senfe, Phantafie, Art, Opinion, Prii- dence. Science, Wifdom, Mind. Of thefe, we have common with Divine Natures, Art, Pru¬ dence, Science, Mind ^ with Bealls , Senfe anjl.Phantaliei only Opinion is proper to us. 5^-^, , , ■ ^ deceitful knowledge through the Body *, Phan-
motion in the'Soul ^ Art^ a Habit of opera- ilrag vvith Reafon. Wc add, with Rea/on ^ fora Spider alfd operates, but without Reafon. Pru¬ dence, is a habit eleflive of that which is right in things to be done ^ Science a habit of thofe things which are always the fame, and in the fame man¬ ner •, Wifdom, a knowledge of the firft caufe ^ Mand, the principle and fountain of all good things.
chap. IX.
Of the Tranfmigration of the Soul.
delivered to his Auditors (faith) (d VV Porphyrius) none can certainly affirm, for there was a great aridftri^Jilenci pbferved amongft
them-, but the moft known arethe/e: Pirft, he faid, that the Soul is vmnortal • then, that it enters into other kinds of living creatures. [Or, as Laertius expreffeth it. He firft afferted. That the foul paf fing through the circle of Keceffity, lives at feveral times in different living creatures.'^ Moretwer, that • after fome periods, the fame things that are now ge¬ nerated, are generated again, and that nothing is fimply New and that we ought to efteem all animate creatures to be of the fame kind with m. Thefe Do- Qrines Pythagoras/^^-m to have brought firft into Greece, (b) Diodorus Siculus [earn’d (i) Cited by
them of the .^Egyptians .^(c) They were the firft afferted, that the Soul of man is immortal, and the^^^'^^'
Body perijhing, it always paffethinto another Body and when it hath run through all things 1 err eft ri¬ al, marine, volatile, it again entreth into fome ge¬ nerated humane body. Which circuition is com^ pleated in three thouf and years. This Opinion
(Mi Herodotus) fome of the Greeks ufurped
as their own, fome more ancient,, others later xdboje Names knonoingly I omit. ’
Pythagoriu,(i'aith Theodoret) Plato, Plotinus,znCi the reft of t^at S:d, acknowledging Souls to be immortal, afferted. That they are piSexiftent to Bodies that there is an innumerable company of Souls-, that thofe which tranfgrefs, are fent down into bodies, fo as being pui ify’d by fuch Dficipline, they may return to their owm place. That theff
which, whilft they are Jn bodies, - lead' a wicked
life, are fent down farther into irrational creatures hereby to receive punilhraenr, and right expiation 5 the angry and malicious; into Serpents, the rave’ nous into Wolves, the audacious into Lionsj the
fraudulent into Fo$es, and the like.
thi^ound (4$ fome conceive) it was, (e J Anon. vk. that heToTbjdto eatFlelh: -for, (f) We ought {fJ Porph.loc, to efteem all animal creatures to be of the fame kind^'^'^' with us, and (g) to have common right, mth us,ax\A (g) Laert.
(h) to be alHed(ina manner) to us. Whence a Bean Jamb. is by Horace [PM, cognataPythagor^, becaufe he forbad it to be eaten , upon t'lc fame grounds •
(k) for that Aden and Beans arofe out 'of the fatHeOb.JP^spb. putrefatlion. 1
This x\ffertion he defended by many infiances particularly of Pnffdd. ft) ^Heraclides relatesVO that he faid, he had bejrpin former
efteemed the Son of IVlercury, [/» a -powerful D^^'C*) Ttetzi vator, who wrote two Treatifes,! r|i€.Ed€ lii-onrn-'^*^i'- *45- ful, the other pleafant ^ ft) thacfikc Democritus and Heraclitus, he bewailed and derided the inftability of life, and was faid tp die; and Irve^rbm day to clayd and that U.Q\xmiMfim reqiteftyxd)af^^ he would, Immmality only except edl fBdt he deft- red, that he might preferve the remembrance oj all aUions, alive and dead: whereupon he remembred all things whilft he lived, and a] ter death retained the fame memory. That afterwards he caipe to be Euphorbus, and was /lain by Menelaus. Now Eu-^ phorbusyb/i/, that he had been infarmer times
^\'^Ai cax'j,to'^x\0'N the Migration of the Soul, as it paft ' from one Bodyo another, and into what Plants and '
Animals it migrated,and what things his Soulfuffer-
e.d after death, and what other Souls f offered. Eu- ' " phorbus dying, his foul paffed into Pkrmrn mus, xrho- defiring toprofefs who he was, went to the Branchi- dx, and coming into theTemple of K^oWoffewed the
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phyriusaud (0) Jamblichus affirm, it was dedicated I” , rZ
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