Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

"244 Glossary.Intellect, Greek voo<;Also rendered pure reason, and by ProfessorCocker, intuitive reason, and the rational soul ;the spiritualnature. The organ of self-evident, necessary, and universaltruth. In an immediate, direct, and intuitive manner,it takeshold on truth with absolute certainty. The reason, throughthe medium of ideas, holds communion with the world of realBeing. These ideas are the light which reveals the world ofunseen realities, as the sun reveals the world of sensible forms.The Idea of the good is the Sun of the Intelligible World ;it sheds on objects the light of truth, and gives to the soulthat knows the power of knowing. Under this light the eyeof reason apprehends the eternal world of being as truly, yetmore truly, than the eye of sense apprehends the world ofphenomena. This power the rational soul possesses by virtueof its having a nature kindred, or even homogeneous withthe Divinity. It was generated by the Divine Father, andlike him, it is in a certain sense eternal. Not that weare to understand Plato as teaching that the rational soul hadan independent and underived existence ;it was created orgenerated in eternity, and even now, in its incorporate state,is not amenable to the condition of time and space, but, in apeculiar sense, dwells in eternity : and therefore is capable ofbeholding eternal realities, and coming into communion withabsolute beauty, and goodness, and truth that is, with God,the Absolute Being." Christianity and Greek Philosophy, x.pp. 349, 350.Intellective Intuitive ; perceivable by spiritual insight.Intelligible Relating to the higher reason.Interpreter The hierophant or sacerdotal teacher who, on the lastday of the Eleusinia, explained the petroma or stone book tothe candidates, and unfolded the final meaning of the representations and symbols. In the Phoenician language he wascalled IDS? peter. Hence the petroma, consisting of twotablets of stone, was a pun on the designation, to imply the