The mystical hymns of Orpheus / Translated from the Greek, and demonstrated to be the invocations which were used in the Eleusinian mysteries, by Thomas Taylor.
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- 1824
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Credit: The mystical hymns of Orpheus / Translated from the Greek, and demonstrated to be the invocations which were used in the Eleusinian mysteries, by Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![simply considered, is represented under the symbol of an egg6 7. And this is the first triad of the intelligible Gods. But for the perfec¬ tion of the second triad they establish either a conceiving and a conceived egg as a God, or a white garment, or a cloud: because from these Phanes leaps forth into light. For indeed they philosophize variously concern¬ ing the middle triad. But Phanes here repre¬ sents intellect. To conceive him however besides this, as father and power, contributes nothing to Orpheus. But they call the third triad Metis as intellect1, Ericapaeus as power, and Phanes as father. But sometimes8 the middle triad is considered according to the three-shaped God, while conceived in the egg: for the middle always represents each of the extremes; as in this instance, where the egg and the three-shaped God subsist together. And here you may perceive that the egg is that which is united; but that the 6 This Orphic egg is the same with the mixture from bound and infinity, mentioned by Plato in the Philebus. See the third book of my translation of Proclus on the The¬ ology of Plato. 7 ioq vow is omitted in the original. a fu]itore is erroneously printed instead of rrore.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29340548_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
