Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

""Bacchic Mysteries. 99these, the mundane intellect, which, according to the ancient theology, is representedby Bacchus, is principally celebrated by thepoet, and this because the soul is particularly distributed into generation, after themanner of Dionysus or Bacchus, as is evidentfrom the preceding extracts from Olympiodorus: and is still more abundantly confirmedby the following curious passage from thesame author, in his comment on the Phcedo ofPlato.The soul,"says he,descends Corically[or after the manner of Proserpine]into generation,* but is distributed into generation Dionysiacally,f and she is bound inbody PrometheiacallyJ and Titanically:shefrees herself therefore from its bonds by exercising the strength of Hercules; but shesubordinate or generated gods], the task of creating themortal.These subordinate deities, copying the example of their parent,and receiving from his hands the immortal principles of the humansoul, fashioned after this the mortal body, which they consignedto the soul as a vehicle, and in which they placed also anotherkind of a soul, which is mortal, and is the seat of violent and fatalpassions."* That is to say, as if dying. Kore was a name of Proserpina.t /. e. as if divided into pieces.\ I. e. Chained fast.