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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    former as father to prolific power, but to the latter as father to intelligible24 intellect. Ocean is said to have married Tethys, and Jupiter Juno, and the like, as establishing a communion with her, con¬ formably to the generation of subordinate natures. For an according coarrangement of the Gods, and a connascent cooperation in their productions, is called by theologists marriage. Tethys is denominated from leaping forth and straining or cleansing, being as it were Diatethys, and by taking away the first two syllables Tethys25. Saturn is the monad of the Titannic order of the Gods, but Jupiter of the demiurgic. This last divinity, however, is twofold, the one exempt and coordinated with Saturn, being a fontal God, and, in short, ranking with the intellec¬ tual fathers, and convolving the extremity of them; but the other being connumerated with the sons of Saturn, and allotted a Saturnian summit and dominion in this triad ; concerning which also the Homeric Neptune says, rpeig yap r tic Kpovou eiyev actXtyeoi, ovg reice Pen]26. As brother Gods we three from Saturn came, And Rhea bore us. And the first Jupiter indeed, as being the demiurgus of wholes, is the king of things first, middle, and last, con¬ cerning whom Socrates also had just said, that he is the ruler and king of all things; and life and salvation are imparted to all things through him. 24 Proclus here means that there is the same analogy between Saturn, Rhea, and Jupiter, as in the intelligible triad, between father, power, and intellect. 25 Ot( WVOfXCCdTM Y\ TTCl^Ci TO £l«TTOjU.£VOV KM OVfXEWV, 010V gtdTYfiV;, KCLl ct<pct^i<TEi tujv tt^uitujv (WctiXXa^wv T>lSof. 26 Iliad, xv. 187.