Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

"44 Eleusinian andsoul, into a darkness profound and repugnant to intellect(the higher soul),* throughwhich, remaining blind both here and inHades, he associates with shadows." TovSYJ Tporcov 6 S/OJJLSVOC 7(ov xaXcovi TY Ssv>sv q:o j |JiV(ov, %ai v-a^jvsaiLfarther confirms our exposition isAnd what stillthat matter was considered by the Egyptians as acertain mire or mud. "Thesays Simplicius,Egyptians,"called matter, which theysymbolically denominated water, the dregsor sediment of the first life; matter being,as it were, a certain mire or mud.fAtoTYJV ^c, rcpoynjc C>^c, r^v 68a>pyov,otov cXov Tiva ooaav. So that from all*Intellect, Greek vooc, wow, is the higher faculty, of the mind.It is substantially the same as the pneuma, or spirit, treated of inthe New Testament; and hence the term "intellectual,"as usedin Mr. Taylor s translation of the Platonic writers, may bepretty safely read as spiritual, by those familiar with the Christian cultus. A. W.tPhysics of Aristotle.