Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

96 Eleusinian andthe same time denominated phirimus (greatest), because a great part of it was absorbedin the earth without emerging from thence :for a river is the symbol of life, and consequently signifies in this place the intellectualor spiritual life, proceeding from on high, thatis,lificfrom divinity itself, and gliding with proenergy through the hidden and profoundrecesses of the sou^.In the following lines he says :Nulli certa domus. Lucis habitamus opacis,Biparumque toros, et prata recentia rivisIncolinms.*By the blessed not being confined to a particular habitation, is implied that they areperfectly free in all things ; being entirelyfree from all material restraint, and purifiedfrom all inclination incident to the darkand cold tenement of the body. The shadyof thegroves are symbols of the retiring* "No one of us has a fixed abode. We inhabit the dark groves,and occupy couches on the river-banks, and meadows fresh withlittle rivulets."