Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

"190 Eleusinian andthe universe; by Apollo, the deityof theSun, who has both a mundane and superand by whom themundane establishment,universe is bound in symmetry and consent,through splendid reasons and harmonizingpower Minerva we must un;and, lastly, byderstand that original, intellectual, ruling,and providential deity, who guards and preserves all middle lives * in an immutablecondition, through intelligence and a selfsupportinglife, and by this means sustainsthem from the depredations and inroadsof matter. Again, by the infancy of Bacchus at the period of his laceration, thecondition of the intellectual nature is implied;since, according to the Orphic theology, souls, under the government of Saturn,or Kronos, who is pure intellect or spirituality, instead of proceeding, as now, from youthto age, advance in a retrograde progressionfrom age to youth, f The arts employed bydeity of"pure intellect/ and still higher The One. These threewere the hypostases.* Lives which are not conjoined with material bodies, nor yetelevated to the lofty state which is the true divine condition.tEmanuel Swedenborg says:They who are in heaven are