Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Bacchic Mysteries. 199place, then, we are made up from fragments (says Olympiodoms), because, throughfalling into generation, our life has proceededinto the most distant and extreme division ;and from Titanic fragments,because theTitans are the ultimate artificers of things,*and stand immediately next to whatever isconstituted from them. But further, ourirrational life is Titanic, by which the rationaland higherlife is torn in pieces. Hence,when we disperse the Dionysus, or intuitiveintellectcontained in the secret recesses ofour nature, breaking in pieces the kindredand divine form of our essence, and whichcommunicates, as it were, both with thingssubordinate and supreme, then we becomeTitans (or apostates) ;but when we establishourselves in union with this Dionysiacal orkindred form, then we become Bacchuses, orperfect guardians and keeperstional life :spect we resemble, isof our irrafor Dionysus, whom in this rehimself an ephorus or*The Demiurge or Creator being superiorto matter in whichis concupiscence and all evil, the Titans who are not thus superiorare made the actual artificers.