Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

196 Bacchic Mysteries.no other than to representthe manner inwhich the form of the mundane intellect isdivided through the universe ;that such anintellect (and every one which is total) remains entire during its division into parts,and that the divided parts themselves arecontinually turned again to their source,with which they become finally united. Sothat illumination from the higher reason,while it proceeds into the dark and rebounding receptacle of matter, and invests its obscurity with the supervening ornaments ofdivine light, returns at the same time without interruption toof its descent.the source or principleLet us now consider the latter part of thefable, in which it is said that our souls wereformed from the vapors emanating from theashes of the burning bodies of the Titans;at the same time connectingit with theformer part of the fable, which is also applicable in a certain degree to the condition ofa partial intellect* like ours. In the first*Partial, as being parted from the Supreme Mind.