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Et appears likewife, from thefe conclufions, 
that the firft oracle of Zoroafter was concerning 
a ladder, which reached from Tartarus to the 
firft fire, 
That the fecond oracle was refpeéting a two- 
fold air, water, and earth, and the roots of the 
earth. 
That the eleventh was concerning the two- 
fold intoxication of Bacchus and Silenus. 
That there was an oracle refpecting a fyren, 
and another refpeCting fhe-goats. 
As a tranflation of thefe conclufions, from 
their mixture with Cabaliftic, and other barba- 
rous jargons, would not be of the leaft ufe to the 
philofophic Bnglith reader, I fhall only give 
them in the original. 
Conclufiones numero 15 fecundam propriam 
oer de intelligentia di€torum Zoroaliris et 
xpofitorum ejus Chaldzorum. 
t, Quod dicunt interpretes Chaldzi fuper 
primum di€tum Zoroaftris, de {cala a tartaro ad 
primum ignem: nihil aliud fignificat quam fe- 
ylem naturarum univerfi, a non gradu materize 
ad eum, qui eft faper omnem gradum graduate 
protenfum. 
2. Ibidem dico, interpretes nihil aliud per 
virtutes myfteriales intelligere quam naturalem 
magium. 
3. Quod dicunt interpretes fuper dictum fe- 
cundum Zoroaftris de duplici ae€re, agua & 
terra, nihil aliud fibi vult, nifi quedlibet eie- 
Tentum, quod poteft dividi per purum et im- 
purum, habere habitatores rationales et irrationa- 
les 3; quod vero purum eft tantum, rationales 
tantum. 
4. Ibidem per radices terre nihil alind intel- 
ligere poffunt quam vitam vegetalem, conveni- 
enter ad dita Empeduelis, qui ponit tranfanima- 
tionem etiam in plantas. 
5. Ex didto illo Zoroaftris, Ha Ha, hos terra 
deflet ufque ad filios, fequendo expofitiunem 
Ofiz Chaldzi, expretiam habemus veritatem de 
peccato originali. 
6. Didta interpretum Chaldzorum fuper 11 
‘apheyifmo de duplici vino ebriatione Bacchi et 
Silent, perfecte intelligentur per di€ta Cabalifia- 
rum de duplici vino. 
7. Que dicunt interpretes fuper 14. aphorif- 
mo, perfecte intelligentur per ea, que dicunt 
Cabaliitce de morte ofculi. 
8. Magi in 17 aphorifmo nihil aliud intelli- 
gunt per triplex indumentum, ex lino, panno et 
pellibus, quam triplex anime habitaculum ce- 
jefte, Spee et terrenum. 
g. Poteris ex precedent conclufione aliquid 
Intelligere de pellicels tunicis, quas fibi fecit 
Adam, et de pellibus que2erant in tabernaculo. 
10. Per canem nihil aliud intelligit Zoroaf- 
ter, quam partem isrationalem anime et j; 
portionalia. “Quod ita effe. videbit qui diligenter 
dicta omnia exp Sofitorum con! fideravit, qui et ipf 
ficut et Zoroatter zenigmatice loquuntur. 
1. Dicium illud Zoroafiris, Nec exeas cum 
tranfit hctor, perfecte intelligetur per ilud Ex- 
odi, quando funt prohibiti lfraelitce exire do- 
mos fuas in tranfitu angeli interficientis primo- 
genita AE gyptiorum, 
Chaldean Oracles by Theurgi S. 
[Sup. 
12. Per Sirenam apud Zoroaftrem nihil aliud 
a quam pariem anime rationalem. — . 
Per puerum apud interpretes nihil aliud 
intelligible quam intelleétum. 
14. Per di€tum illud Zoroaftris, Adine tres 
dies facrificabitis, et non ultra, apparuit mihj 
per Arithmeticam fuperioris Merchjane illos 
computand: dies efle, in eo diéto  exprefie pre- 
di€tum adventum, Chrifti. 
15. Quid fit intelligendum per capras apud 
Zoro aftrem, intelligit, | qui legerit 1 in libro Bair 
quee fit affinitas capris et quz agnis cum {piriti- 
bus. Pici. op. vol. i. p. 69+ 
Chaldean Oracles delivered by Theurgifis, 
under the reign of the emperor Marcus 
Antoninus. 
Concerning the fummit of the a 
gible order : 
H provers ence meulwe om aw Bel St [LOVES ES be 
“Procl. in Eucl. Boz ye 
The esta is there firft where the paternal 
monad fubfifts. 
Concerning the produétion of the mid 
dle of the intelligible order : ; 
Te (hy ES s fasvecc i evo VEVVa- 
Procl. in Eucl. p.27. 
The monad is extended, which generates two. 
Concerning eternity, according 
which, the middle of the intelligible er- 
der is charaéterifed: ; 
Thalooyeves eos. Tony yeep provac 
Ex traloas ahung dgedbaprevos voou ayGog, 
Ey 2 Tw voety Tewlowmay vouy everdavers 
Viacats mnyats Te ty LOK ES. 
Kat To yortyy wet TE [AEVELY @OXYW ceopaniy yt 
Procl. in ‘Fim, p. 242. 
Father- begotten light, For this alone, by 
plucking abundantly from the ftrength of the 
¥ 
to 
Father, the flower of intelleét, is enabled, by 
intejleétion, to impart a paternal intelle& to all 
the fountains and principles ; 3 together with in- 
telleCtual energy, and a perpetual permanency, 
according to an unfluggifh revolution. 
* Tic yaa ayenrertlov Cwncs % 5, TNS ele voy eve 
Verphewey 2% % Dig woxyou une vo aie EVERY ZIaS, 0 
cosy (a itr )e 
(4) For eternity, according. to the oracle, is 
the caufe of never-failing lite, of unwearied 
power, and of unfluggifh energy. _ 
Concerning the extremity of the intel- 
ligible order : 
pe TUDOAEVIS TENCND eUEAUCoDE TuoOS eVGAS 
og Aw erPowo wy Aotnwpret- meus yeo syGev 
me eles tbe FO xolw TEVESY OX dives ayriles. 
Procl. in Theol. Plat. p. 171, 172, 
Thence a fiery whirlwind fweeping along, ob- 
{cures the flower of fire, leaping, at the fame 
time, tnto the cavities of the worlds. For all 
things thence begin to extend their admirable 
rays downwards (c). * 


(4) Agreeably to this, Plotinus divinely de- 
fines eternity to be infinite life, at once total and 
ull, 
(c) See my Introdugtion to the Parmenides of 
Plato, near the end. 
3 My Ms 
