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The history of philosophy: containing the lives, opinions, actions and discourses of the philosophers of every sect. Illustrated with the effigies of divers of them

Chapter 382

Part XIX.

The Cbaldaic{[^ Philofopby.
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By yielding are fubfervient to the perfwajive , Counfelof the father. \
And to underjland^and alwys to remain in a reji- lefs whirling.
But infmuating into Worlds the Venerable Name in a fleeplefs Whirling.
fountains and Frinciples ; to turn^ and always to remain in a reft lefs Whirling.
By reafon of the terrible menace of the father. Under two Minds the Life generating fountain Souls is contained ^
And the Maker^ who felf operating framed the World. *
Who fprung ftrft out of the Mind.
Qoathing fire with fire., binding them together, to mingle
The fount anous Craters, preferves the flowet of his own fire.
He glittereth with IntelleHual SeUions, and filled all things with Love.
Like Swarms they are carried, being broken. About the Bodies of the World.
That things unfafhioned may be fafhioned.
What the Mind fpeaks, it (peaks byunderftandA
ing.
Bower is with them. Mind is from Her.
JYNGES, IDEi:’S. PRNI CIPLES.
THefe being many afcend into the lucidWorlds. Springing into them, and in which there are three Tops.
Beneath them lies the chief of Immaterials. Vrinciples which have underftood the intelligible Works of the father.
Lifclofed them in fenfible Works as in Bodies j Being (as it were) the ferry men betwixt the fa¬ ther and Matter.
And producing manifeft Images of unmanifeft things.
And inf cribing unmanifeft things in the manifeft frame of the World.
The Mind of the father made a jarring Noife, underftanding by vigorous Counfel,
Omniform Ideds', and flying out of one fountain They fprung forth-, for, from the fathers was the Counfel and End,
By which they are conneQed to the father, by al¬ ternate
Life from fever al Vehicles.
But they were divided, being by IntelleUual fire diftributed
Into other IntelleUuals : for the King did fet be¬ fore the multiform World An IntelleHual incorruptible Pattern -, this Print through the World he promoting, of whofe form According to which the World appeared Beautified with all kind of Idea’s, of which there is one fountain.
Out of which come rufhing forth others undiftribu- tedybeing broken about the Bodies of the World, which through the vaft Receffes,
Like Swarms, are carried round' about every way. IntelleSual Notions from the paternal fountain cropping the flower of fire, hr the point of fleeplefs time, of this Primigeni- ous Idea.
The ftrft felf budding foutainofthe father budded. Intelligent Jynges do(themf elves) alfo under ft and from the father ;
By unfpeakable Councils, being moved fo as to un- derftand.
HECATE. SYNOCHES. TELETARCHS
FOr out of him fpring all . ^ ,
Implacable Thunders, and thePrefter-recei- ving cavities
Of the Intirely -lucid ftrength of fatherbegoiten Hecate.
And he who begirds (viz.) the flower of Fire, and the ftrong
Spirit of the Poles fiery above.
He gave to his Prefers that they fhould guard the Tops.
Mingling the power of his own Strength in the Synoclies.
0 how the World hathintelleclual guides inflexible! Becaufe fhe is the Operatrix, becaufe jhe is the 'Difpenfatrix of Life giving fire.
Becauje alfo it fills the Lifeproducing Bofom of Hecate.
And inftils in //;£’5ynoches the enlivning ftrength Of potent fire.
But they are guardians of the works of the father.
for he difgufes himfelf prof effing
To be c loathed with the Print oj the Images.
The Teletarchs are comprehended with the Sy- noches,
To thefe IntelleSualPrefters of intelleUual fife. All things are fubfervient.
But as many as ferve the Material^ynochss, Having put on the compleatly- Armed Vigour of refounding Light.
With tripple ftrength fortifying the Soul and the Mind.
To put into the Mind the Symbol of Variety.
And not to walk difperfedly on the Empyrted Channels But ftiffly
Thefe frame Indivifibles, and fenfible s.
And Corporiforms, and things defin’d to Mlatt er
SOUL NATURE.
FOr the Soul being a bright fire, by the power of the father
Remains Immortal, and is Miftrefs of Life-,
And pofjeffeth manyComplexions of the Cavities of the World:
lor it is in imitation of the Mind-, but that which is born hath fomething of the Body.
The Channels being intermixed, fhe performs the Works of incorruptible fire.
Next the paternal Conceptions I (the Soul)dwell-, Warm, heating all things -, for he did put The Mind in the Soul, theSoul in the dull Body. Of us the father of Gods and Men impofed. Abundantly animating Light, f ire, Mther fVorldsi for natural Works co-exifi with the Intell&ual Light of the fathgr,forthe Soul which adorn’d the great
Heaven, and adorning with the father.
But her Horns are fixed above.
But about the fhoulders of the Goddefs, immenfe Nature is exalted.
Again, indefatigable Nature commands the Worlds and Works.
That Heaven drawing an eternal courfe mcyrun. And the fwift Sun might come about the Center as he ufeth.
Look not into the fatal name of this Nature.
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