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APULEIUS ON THE GOD OF SOCRATES

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ON THE GOD OF SOCRATES - From the Latin, this translation was first published at London in 1822. The Gods and the Demons of the Ancient World brought into the philosophical experience
Thomas Taylor, trans. w/ annotations

from the editor: Plato gives a triple division to the whole nature of things, and especially to that part of it which pertains to animals; and he likewise is of opinion, that there are Gods' in the highest, in the middle, and in the lowest place of the universe. Understand, however, that this division is not only derived from local separation, but also from dignity of nature, which is itself distinguished not by one or two, but by many modes. Nevertheless, it will be more manifest to begin from the distribution of place- for this order assigns the heavens to the immortal Gods, conformably to what their majesty demands. And of these celestial Gods, some we apprehend by the sight, but others we investigate by intellect; and by the sight, indeed, we perceive

...Ye, the world's most refulgent lights, Who through the heavens conduct the gliding year.'

We do not, however, only perceive by the eyes those principal Gods, the Sun [the artificer of the day], and the Moon [the emulator of the Sun], and the ornament of night; whether she is cornicular, or divided,' or gibbous, or full; exhibiting a various ignited torch; being more largely illuminated the farther she departs from the Sun; and, by an equal augment both of her path and her light, defining the month through her increments, and afterwards by her equal decrements; [for this must be admitted] whether, as the Chaldeans think, she possesses a proper and permanent light of her own, being in one part of herself endowed with light, but in another part deprived of splendor, and possessing a manifold...

    Publisher: Holmes
    Pages: 27
    Special Interest: Antiquity, Occult, Magick, Academic Treatise, Advanced Studies & Application, Secret Socieities, Scholarly and systematic exposition of arcane topics, texts employed in University, thesis, essay, study, contemporary report of arcana, et al.

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