Vor. TIT.) 
puerile fports, the foundations of mercantile 
wifcera are never true: but'all thefe are mere 
deception. Fly, from thefe, if you intend to 
open the facred parad: ife of piety, where virtue, 
Wipor and equity, are collected together. 
Aifeo Fury ns oy elovy ovey 1 Tive ee 
Sinus Surevows, emt tTHElv ad? 1g EOQUTIS 
AvGis avacice?, bepw hoyw Eoyoy Eywaec. 
Explore thie river (g) of the foul, whence, or 
in what order, having become a fervant to body, 
you may again rife to that order from which 
you flowed, uniting operation to facred rea- 
fon (7): 
My ualw yevons, noupavos nelle, yes UMOKE riletty 
Epragooou cuowy neues Bub pxtdos * 
Avaynng Gooyas ¢ Eos 
Verge not downwards, a precipice lies under 
the earth, which draws oilgee a defcent of 
feven fteps(z), and under which lies the throne 
of dire neceffity. 
Ovarvle BarSaoe pin wel wdraenc. 
You fhould never change barbarous names (#). 
Twe EXEL AST (LOS VWOELIUS VOY NLS HAUILT ELS 6 
In acertain refpe@ the world polfeffes intel- 
le€tual inflexible futtainers ¢/). 
Eycoyzs meat roy exelinoy cpopeAsy. 
- Energize about the Hecatic fphere (m). 
Wodronis ny Acne rot, wIpnions newla reovlery 
Oule yao sveeviag nughoe Tole Desvelot oyxI¢, 
AS Epic ov hesparavcrt TO [ANVNS DWF HEXMAUT Tltety 
XSwy ouy” tcnne* Phemlar de rave a ee 
If you often invoke me (z), all things will a 
pear to you to bealion. For neither will che 
¢onvex bulk of heaven then be vifible; the 
Mars will not fhine; the light of the moon will 
be concealed; the earth will not ftand firm; 5 
but all things will be feen in thunder. 
Tayrosey amrocw albuyn MUONS nVice TELyOY. 
Onall fides, with an unfigured (0 )foul, extend 
the reins of fire. 
Q lodpxnoces Tuc OuTEWS Cyt ow TE TEV VOLT [Atle 
O man, thou fubtle production (/), that art 
of a bold nature ! 
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ny UTD CELYNC 
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(zg) t.¢e, The producing caufe of the foul. 
() By ifacred reafon is meant the fummit, 
or principal power of the foul, which Zoroatter, 
in another place, calls the flower of intelleét: 
(i) i.e. The orbs of the feven planets. 
(2) For in every nation there are names of 
divine origin, and which pofiefs an ineffable 
power in myf{tic operations. 
(2) #.e. The fontal fathers, or intelleCtual 
gods. By inflexible, underftand ftable power. 
(m\ This {phere was of gold. In the middle 
of it there'was a fapphire; and the {phere it- 
felf was turned round by means of a thong, 
made of the hide of an ox. It was likewife 
every where infcribed with chasaéters: and the 
Chaldzans turning it round, made oe invo- 
cations, But it is called Hecatine, becaufe de- 
as to Hecate. 
By me is meant the fountain or caufe of 
the ‘cele fia conftellation called the lion. 
(0) By anfigured, underftand moft imple and 
pure: and by the reins of fire, the unimpeded 
energy of the-theurgic life of fuch a foul. 
a f#) Man is a fudtle production, conlidered 
Colleétion of the Oracles of Zoroafter. 
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Aaingley Neyorry Exalne eselng MERE TnY ty 
Bydoy Onn peony TO MUIsVLOY OY TOLELoCL. 
In the left hand inward parts o! Hecate 
is the fountain of virtue, which wholly abides 
within, and does not emit its virginal nature. 
Hytun ev Bredas fs22bnG aTeD eviegoy Wve 
AwpATrofcEyoy GxLeTncaY AOU xeL]e, BevGeu A9G {AO 
Kavos: « TUCOS Ouyny. 
When you behold a facred fire (7) without 
form, fhining with a leaping fplendor through 
the pr rofundities of the whole world, hear the 
voice of fire. 
Mn dyoews nadecns evlonloy wyerApe. 
You fhould not invoke the felf-confpicuous 
image of nature(s). 
H @uacte Tek TEL ELVeLL TAU Cet novees By OuS 
Kai ve naxnng udne brasil Kens 2 cclra. 
Nature perfuades us, that there are holy dze- 
mons, and that the bt ‘ome of depraved mat- 
ter (t) are ufeful and good, 
Fox N ELECOTWY Oeay yee Twe eC scvvln? 
Oudey Oynloy eyoucn, ona Deobev remeebucet. . 
Agave wUy et yee, vp’ 1 Tere Gopxee Boolecay. 
(@) The foul of mortals compels, i in a certain 
refpect, divinity into itfelf, poffefling Hoey 
mortal, and is wholly inebriated from deit 
for it glories in the harmony (~) under whish 
the mortal body fubfitts. 
Hyec9w Luyng PaSoc axe ooloy Vp peiecelen, SO aacdyy 
Teyle exmelocoy ww. 
The immortal depth ( y) of the foul fhould be 
the leader; but vehemently extend all your 
eyes (%) upwards, 
Mn mrevpne moruvAc, pon de Paduvns vo ertmeday. 
You fhould not defile the {pirit (4), nor give 
depth to a faper ficies. 
Zulncoy meoe.d ELOY. 
Seek Paradife (3), 

as the work of the /écret art of divinity. But 
he is of a bold nature, as exploring things more 
excellent than himfelf. 
(7) Hecate, according to the Chaldzans, is 
the centre of the intelleCtual gods: and they 
fay, that in her right nand parts the contains the 
fountain of fouls; and in her left, the fountain 
of the virtues. 
(r) This oracle relates to the vifion of divine 
light. 
(s) ie. The image to be invoked in the 
mytfteries muft be intelligible, and not fenfible. 
(1) By the bioffoms of depraved matter, un- 
derftand the demons called Ev'/; but which 
are not fo effentially, but from their office. 
(~) That is, the human foul, through. its 
immortality and purity, becomes replete with a 
more excellent life, and divine illumination ; and 
is, as it were, raifed above itfelf. 
(x) 7.¢. Unapparent and intelligible har- 
mony. 
(y) ie. The fummit or flower of its na- 
ture. 
(%) i. ¢ All the gnoftic powers of the foul. 
(2) Uhderftand se the fpirit, the aérial ve- 
hicle of the foul; and by the fuperficies, the 
etherial and lucid vehicle. 
(6) The Chaldaic Paradife is the choir of 
diving 
