Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

""Bacchic Mysteries. 37For this I weep, for this indulge ray woe,That e er my soul such novel realms should know.KXauaa TE xai xcuxuaa, towv aoovqfoa ycopov.Plato, too, it is well known, considered thebody as the sepulchre of the soul, and inthe Cratylus concurs with the doctrine ofOrpheus, that the soul is punished throughits union with body. This was likewise theopinion of the celebrated Pythagorean, Philolaus,as is evident from the following remarkablepassage in the Doric dialect, preserved by Clemens Alexandrinus in Stromat.bookiii.MapiupsovTa3s *ai 01 rca/.asv a(o[j-ati TOIXTCI)-usfta^at." . c.The ancienttheologists and priests * also testify that thesoul is united with the bodyas if for thesake of punishment ; f and so is buried inbody as in a sepulchre." And, lastly, Py-* Greek |xavTsi? manleis more properly prophets, those filled"by the prophetic mania or entheasm.t More correctly The soul is yoked to the body as if by wayof punishment," as culprits were fastened to others or even tocorpses. See PauVs Epistle to the Romans, vii, 25.