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Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

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&quot;<strong>Bacchic</strong> <strong>Mysteries</strong>. 213<strong>and</strong> which is productive of seeds, immeon Bacchus. And hence wediately dependsare informed by Proclus, that the sexual partsof this god are denominated by theologists,Diana, who, says he, presides over the wholeof the generation into natural existence,leads forth into light all natural reasons, <strong>and</strong>extends a prolific power from on high evento the subterranean realms.*And hence wemay perceive the reason why, in the OrphicHymn to Nature, that goddessis described asturning round silent traces ivitJi the anklebonesof her feet&quot;. TCOU&amp;gt;Vlyyoc,And it is highly worthy our observation thatNature is celein this verse of the hymnbrated as Fortune, according to that description of the goddess in which she is represented as st<strong>and</strong>ing with her feet on a wheelwhich she continually turns round; as thefollowing verse from the same hymn abundantly confirms :Asvao) OTocaX .ff-0-oov oivsoooaa.t&amp;gt;juiaCommentary upon the Timceus,

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