CHAP. XIII. EMANATIONS FROM THE DEITY. 319 



living, are in a much lower degree of estimation 

 than tliose that once enjoyed existence, though 

 they may since have lost it. But whatever beings 

 are endued with Hfe, and the faculty of seeing, 

 with a principle of voluntary motion in them, and 

 are able to distinguish what belongs to and is 

 proper for them ; all these, as Heraclitus says, are 

 to be regarded as the effluxes, or so many portions 

 of that supreme wisdom which governs the uni- 

 verse ; so that the Deity is not less strikingly re- 

 presented in these, than in images of metal and 

 stone made by the hand of man." 



This doctrine is well described by Virgil, in the 

 following; beautiful lines * : — 



" Principio coeliim, ac terras, camposque liquentes 

 Lucentemque globum liiiias, Titaniaque astra, 

 Spiritus intiis alit, totamque infiisa per artus 

 Mens agitat inolem, et niagno se corpore iniscet. 

 Iiule hominum pccudumque genus, vitEeque volantiim, 

 Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub sequore pontus. 

 Igncus est ollis vigor, et coelestis origo 

 Scniinibus. ...... 



Quia et supremo cum lumine vita reliquit, 



Kon tamcn omne malum miseris, ncc funditus omnes 



C'or[)orete exceciiuit pcstes ; peuitusque necesse est 



INIulta diu concreta modis inolescere miris. 



Ergo exerccntur pa-nis, veterumque malorum 



Supplicia expendunt. .... 



Donee longa dies perfecto temporis orbc 

 Concretam exemit labem, purumque reliquit 

 ji^thereum sensum, at que aurai siinplicis ignem. 

 Has omnes, ubi mille rotam volvere per annos, 

 LethiL'um ad fluvium Deus evocat agmine magno : 

 Scilicet immemores supera ut convexa revisant, 

 Rursus et incii)iant in corpora velle reverti." 



The same is mentioned by Eusebius as the 

 opinion expressed in the old Hermaic books called 



* V'irg. JEn. vi. 724. 



