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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    most venerable excellences we can con- ceive, and the most holy and primary names and things, we ascribe nothing to him which is suitable to his dignity. It is sufficient, however, to procure our pardon [for the attempt], that we can attribute to him nothing superior.” If it is not possi- ble, therefore, to form any ideas equal to the dignity of the immediate progeny of the ineffable, e. of the first principles of things, how much less can our conceptions reach that thrice unknown darkness, in the reverential language of the Egyptians,! * Ka6 -)(pr] Tov €7Ti ra<s ava^aLvovra ^rjTeiv, et Svva- Tov eivai Ti KpciTTov T’i]s V7roTe6ei(rr]<s o-pX'l^ €vpe$rj, 7raA.11/ €7T CKeLVOv ^7]T€iv, €(j)'S av CIS Tas aKpoTaTas evvoias (XOiapev, <j)v ovKCTt CT€pvoTepa<s €)(op€v' /cat pr) •^rjcrat rrjv ava/3aariv. ovSe yap evXa^rjreov prj K€vep^aTb)p€v, pei^ova riva Kat vTTipfiaLvovTa ras wpiara^ ap)pi<s rrepi avT(ov evvo^fvTCS. ov yap Svvarov ryXcKOVTOv TrrjS'qpa 7rvj&q(raL ras rjperepa^ €vvoLas, ws TrapLcr(t)6r]vaL Ty a^i^ to/v ttjoo/twv ap^cav, ov Xeycj /cat vnepur- Trjvac. pia yap avry -irpos 6eov avaraa-is apis’r/, /cat tos Svva- TOv aTTTatS’OS. Kat (vv evvoiSpev aya6(ov ra a-epvoTara^ /cat ayuarara, Kat TrpiOTOvpya, Kat ovopara Kat Trpaypara avro) avartOevras eiSevai ^ej8atu)9, on prjSev avareOetKapev a^tov. apK€L 8c yptv CIS o’vyyvioprjv, to pySev c/ccii/wv vTrepTepov. Simplic. in Epict. Enchir. p. 207. Lend. l670. 8vo. t Of the first principles, says Damascius in MS. Trept ap^oiv, the Egyptians said nothing, but celebrated it as a darkness beyond all intellectual conception, a thrice un-