Select works of Plotinus ... and extracts from the treatise of Synesius on providence / Translated from the Greek. With an introduction containing the substance of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. By Thomas Taylor.

  • Plotinus
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1817
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    instrument of the evil which they inflict on man¬ kind. And that proceeding in this path, they had procreated, nourished, and performed the office of a midwife to Typhos, and educated him in an ap¬ propriate manner, that he might eventually be of great advantage to them. Nevertheless they thought that one thing was yet wanting to the accom¬ plishment of all his wishes, viz. that he should be environed with the strength of empire. For thus he would be completely perfect, being both willing and able to perpetrate mighty evils. But you (said some one of the Gods) they hate, as the gain of mankind, but their detriment. For the calami¬ ties of nations are the banquets of evil daemons. Again, therefore,, and again the Gods admonished Osiris that he should expel his brother, and send him to some distant land, as they both knew and saw that Osiris was naturally mild, in consequence of which they were at length forced to tell him that for a certain time he would endure [the depravity of his brother], but that at length Typhos would latently betray both him and all men, and in reality exchange the benignant name of brotherly-love for the greatest of calamities. Osiris, however, said, in answer to this, While you are propitious and