Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Bacchic Mysteries. 201sary for her to sympathize with the image, asbeing of like idea. For every external formor substance is wrought into an identity withits interior substance, through an ingeneratedtendency thereto.In the third place, beingsituated in a divided nature, it is necessarythat she should be torn in pieces,and fallinto a last separation, till, through the actionof a life of purification, she shall raise herselffrom the dispersion, loose the bond of sympathy, and act as of herself without theexternal image, having become establishedaccording to the first-created life. The likethings are fabled in the example. For Dionysus or Bacchus because his image wasformed in a mirror, pursued it, and thusbecame distributed into everything. ButApollo collected him and brought him up;being a deity of purification, and the truesavior of Dionysus and on this account he;isstyled in the sacred hymns, Dionusites."rO~i Set TCpco-ccv oiroTCYjaat euiova TTJVsauTC j sv TO)aa)|jLrm.TOUTO yap sariaac TO aa)[ia. Asoispov 8s ooji/juaftstv T(J>kp, x-ata TTJV 6jJLOi8scav. Ilav yap stSoc