Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians / translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor.

  • Iamblichus
Date:
1895
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Credit: Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians / translated from the Greek by Thomas Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ledge of the Gods, and yet despised them, will in another life be deprived of this knowledge. And it is requisite to make the punishment of those who have honoured their kings as Gods to consist in being ex- pelled from the Gods.’’ When the ineffable transcendency of the first God, which was considered as the grand principle in the Heathen religion by the best theologists of all nations, and par- ticularly by its most illustrious promulga- tors, Orpheus, Pythagoras, and Plato, was forgotten, this oblivion was doubtless the principal cause of dead men being deified by the Pagans. Had they properly di- rected their attention to this transcendency they would have perceived it to be so im- mense as to surpass eternity, infinity, self- subsistence, and even essence itself, and that these in reality belong to those venera- ble natures which are, as it were, first un- folded into light from the unfathomable * Kat KoXacreb)^ 8e eiSos eivai adeiav ovk airetKOS. rovs yap yvovras deovs, Kai Kara<f)povri<ravTaSf evXoyov ev €T€p(p /3i(p Kai rr]<s yvoKTccDS S’cpecr^ai, nai Tovs eavT0)v ^acriAeas ws 9eov<i rip.r]- (ravras, eSei ttjv Siktjv avruiv rroitjcrai tcjv Occjjv eKTrecreiv. Cap. xviii.