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noches; After thefe fucceed the 
fontal fatbers*, who are alfo called 
Cofinagogi, or leaders of the world. Of 
thefe, the firft is.called once beyond, the 
fecond is Hecate; and the third is rwece 
beyond. After thefe are the three 
Amilidi +s and, laft of all, the Upezorus. 
They likewife venerate a fontal triad of 
faith, truth, and love. They alfert that 
there is a ruling fun from a folar foun- 
tain, and an archangelic fun; that there 
is a fountain of fenfe, a fontal judgment, 
athundering fountain, a dioptric foun- 
tain, aud a fountain of characters, feated 
in unknown impreffions. And, again, 
that there are fontal fummits of Apollo, 
Ofiris, and Hermes. They likewife 
affert that there are material fountains of 
centres and elements; that there is a 
zone of dreams, anda fontal foul. 
After the fountains, they fay, the 
principlest fucceed: for fountains are 
fuperior to principles. But of the vwv- 
fie || principles, the fummit is called He- 
cate, the middle ruling foul, and the 
extremity rzling virtue. They have like- 
wife azonic Hecate, fuch as the Chaldaic 
Comas, and Ecklufiike. But 
the azonic § gods, according to them: 
are Serapis, Bacchus, the feries of Ofris, 
and of Apollo. ‘Thefe gods are called azo- 
nic, becaufe they rule without reftraint | 
over the zones, and are eftablifhed above 
the apparent gods. But the zonic gods 
are thofe which revolve round the cele- 
ftial zones, and rule over fublunary 
affairs, but not with the fame unreftrain - 
ed energy, asthe azonic. For the Chal- 
dzeans confider the zomic order as divine; 
as diftributing the parts of the fenfible 
world; and as begirding the allotments 
about the material region. 
The znerratic circle {ucceeds the zones, 
and comprehends the feven fpheres in 
which the ftars are placed. According 
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* Thefe fontal fathers compofe the ntelletual 
triad of the Greeks, and are Saturn, Rhea, 
Jupiter. 
+ The three AmiliGti are the fame with the 
unpolluted triad, or Cureres of the Greeks. Ob- 
ferve, that a fontal fubjifience means a fub/iftence 
according to caufe. 
+ Thefe principles, are the fame with the 
Platonic fifermundane order Of gods, 
| The vivific triad confifts, according to the 
Greek Theologifts, of Diana, Proferpine, and 
Miurerva. 
§ The azonic gods are the fame with the 
liberated order ot the Greek Theologifts, or 
that order which is immediately fituated above 
the mundane gods, 
‘ 
to them, likewife, there are favo /olar 
worlds; one, which is fubfervient to the 
etherial profundity ; the other zonaic, 
being one of the feven fpheres. 
Of human fouls, they eftablifh a two- 
fold fontal caufe ; viz. the paternal intel- 
lect*, and the foxial foul+ : and they con-= 
fider partial ¢ fouls, as proceeding from 
the fontal, according to the will of the 
father. Souls of this kind, * however, 
poflefs a felf-begotten, and felf-vital 
effence: for they are not like alter-mo- 
tive natures. Indeed, fince according 
to the Oracle, a partial foul is a portion 
o: divine fire, a {plendid fire, and a pa- 
ternal conception, it muft be an imma- 
terial and. felf-fubfitent effence: for 
every thing divine 1s of this kind; and 
of this the foulisa portion. They affert 
too, that all things are contained in each 
foul; but that in each there is an un- 
known charatteriftic of an effable and 
ineffable impreffion. ‘hey are of opi- 
nion, that the foul often defcends into 
the world, through many caufes; either 
through the defluxion of its wings||, or 
through the paternal will. They believe 
the world to be eternal, as likewife ~ 
the periods of the ftars. They multifari- 
oufly diftribute Hades, at one time call- 
ing it the leader of a terrene allotment, 
and at another the fublunary region. 
Sometimes, they denominate it, the moft 
inward of the etherial and material 
worlds; at another time, irrational § 
foul. In this, they place the rational 
foul, not effentially, but according to 
habitude, when it fympathizés with it, 
and energizes according to partial reafon. 
They confider zdeas, at one time, as 
the conceptions of the fatber@; at another 
time, as univerfal reafons, viz. phyfical, 
animaftic, and intelligible; and again, 
as the exempt hyparxes (or fummits) 
of beings. They affert that magical 
operations-are accomplifhed through the 
Intervention of the higheft powers, and 
terrene fubftances; and that fuperior 
natures finpathize with inferio1, and ef- 
pecially with thofe in the fublunary 

* The upiter of the Greeks, the artificer 
of the univerfe. 
+ Called by the Greeks, Fun. 
{ That is, fuch fouls as our’s. 
/ || So Plato: fee my tranflation of the Phze- 
rus, 
§ Hades, is, with great propriety, thus 
called; for the rational, when giving itfelf up 
to the dominion of the irrational foul, may be 
truly faid to be fituated in Hades, or obfcurity. 
| i.e. Fupiter, or the Demiurgus, 
3U.2 region, 
