The life of Pythagoras, with his Symbols and Golden verses. Together with the life of Hierocles, and his commentaries upon the verses / Collected out of the choicest manuscripts, and translated into French, with annotations. By M. Dacier. Now done into English. The Golden verses translated from the Greek by N. Rowe, esq.
- André Dacier
- Date:
- 1707
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The life of Pythagoras, with his Symbols and Golden verses. Together with the life of Hierocles, and his commentaries upon the verses / Collected out of the choicest manuscripts, and translated into French, with annotations. By M. Dacier. Now done into English. The Golden verses translated from the Greek by N. Rowe, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![, thinking of the Sou],or that the Care of the Body will ferve iikewife for the Soul, without purging it apart# çonimits th j like Fault. (») But he who takes care of both, perfects his whole felf; C^) and by this means- Philofophy join’d to themyftick Art, whofe bufi- nefs is to purge the lucid Boay. And if this Art be deftitute of aPhilofophical Mind, (p) you will hndit has no longer the fame Virtue; for of all the things that, compleat our Perfedion, forne were invent d by a Philofophical Mind, ahd others were incrodu ’d by a Myftical Operation that conforrh’d it fell to that Mind. Now by Mylfical Operation, I mean the Purga- The tive Faculty of the luminous Body ; to the opera-. of all Philofophy the Theory may precede as the Mind, and the Pradlick follo w as the Αθ; or Faculty. conform Now the Praâiick is of two forts, Politick or C.'wWjniable to and Myftical. The firft purges us of Folly by the , Bb4 means __ ïïfsre ~ ~ introduc'd ïpanner thefe Pliilofophers believ’d that Fire'purg’d the {Tf// •Chariot of the Soul; they irï?agin’d ir to be by Syinpathys ; and that it not only aded on the things oiter’d, but on that like- . wife which thofe things reprefented ' (n) Here fomething is wanting in the printed Text, but T have follow’d the Reading of the Copy compar'd with the Μ·τηη- feript, which I find confirm’d by the Manufeript of Florence^ '''^0A(^'<r-Atr.K^f9· Î T n.· ·« (e) Here Hierocks very plainly infinuates, that the myitical Ceremonies of Religion were introduc’d only for the uody. If the Soul were alone by it ielfi it would have need only ot i hi- lofophy, that is to fay, of the Knowledge,of Τηιιΐκ^ But feemg -it has a Body that ought to be luiuinous and ipiritual, it has ' r ' need likewiÆ of the Ceremonies that purifie it, and that agrée with the Purifications of the Soul, of which they are an Image and Reprefentation. ’Tis needlefs to refute this fo viff le an Error. If the Soul were alone, yet having Sin, it would have need of being purg’d and purify’d j iiiut by a Purgation, of which Hieredes was unfortunately ignorant ' if) For not being grounded on Reaibn and on Truth, tis only a vain Phantom, which being made up of and Cheats» produces only Impotoe and fcor. . ^ ■· --](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30517102_0429.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
