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the whole of fate, they make two feries, the 
one animaftic, or belonging to foul, and the 
other belonging to Fate. They affert, that 
foul is derived from: the animaftic feries, but 
that fomctimes it becomes fubfervient to Fate, 
when pafling into-an irrational condition of be- 
ing, it changes its lord, viz. Fate for Providence, 
* To Aoyiov gids Tag Luyeo avayomevag Tey 
grieve vel a Dey. Olympiod! in Phzd. 
The oracle fays, that afcending fouls fing a 
hymn in praife of Apollo, 
* Owe vrepSabtaioy oda’ ermloy xula ro Aoytov 
sie ray DeorsGecay. 
Damafcius in vita Ifdorti apud Stidam. 
- Nor hurling, aecording!to the oracle, a tran- 
fcendant foot towards piety 1, - ; 
* Toye vo muevex Toto To Lwyinoy, o 4 
mrevcalixay buy ny meoonyreevsav or Evdaimeoves, x 
eo¢ # Saipecy qavrodamos, wy eidmAoy yiveTas, x 
TAG Wovag ey TOTO) ThVEL shuren. Neng (sob Ze yee 
Oropavoucs meet aUTOV, Tats ovap duyTaTLAIS THy 
ext OueLayayny tng Luxng meccenazcvres. 
Synies, dé Infom. p. 139. 
This animal fpirit, which bleffed men have 
called the pneumatic foul, becomes'a god, an 
all-various damon, and an image, and the foul 
in this iuffers her punifhments. The oracles 
too, accord with this aceount: for they affimi- 
late the employment of the foul in Hades to 
the delufive vifions of a dream 2. 
_* Refponfa fepe victoriam dant noftris elec- 
tionibus, et non foli ordini mundalium periodo- 
rum: puta quando et dicunt: Te if/um widens, 
werere, Et iterum: Extra corfius effe te ipfum 
credée, et es. Et’ quid oportet dicere, ubi et 
sgritudines voluntarias pullulare nobis aiunt ex 
tali vita noftra nafcentes. 
Procl. de! Providentia. p. 483. 
The oracles often: give the victory to our 
own choice, and not to the order alone of the . 
mundane periods. As for inftance, when they 
fay, ** On beholding- yourfelf, fear.” And 
again, ‘© Believe yourfelf to be above body, 
and you are.” And ftill further, when they 
affert, ‘© That our voluntary forrows germinate 
in us as the growth of the particular life 
which we' lead.” 
Oracles of uncertain, or imperfect, 
meaning: _ 
T° agents » Ta entre cuvOnata xool.ou, 
The ineffable and effable impreffions of the 
world, 
EvAAEyEL avTe, AaCavovea atbens ee0s, 
HeAtou' te, Deng ve 4 oce ness cuvexovT at. 
He collefted it; receiving the portion of 
ether, of the-fun, of the moon, and of what- 
ever is contained in the air. 
Kat ebaymray ey ebtn nt agetn on copia, 
Kas n modupewy areensia. 
There appeared in it virtue and wifdom, and 
truth endued with abundance of intelle@t. 

x Nothing fo requifite-as an orderly progref- 
fion to the acquifition of a divine life. 
‘ 2 For he who lives under the dominion of 
the irrational life, both heré and hereafter, is 
truly im a-dormant ftate. 
Montruty Mac. No, XIX. 
~~ Oracles of uncertain Meaning. 
525 
‘Pu rmvds eee rpiados Seas meo tnd ovens 
Ov GewT15, ann ob Te (ET eELT CL. Picea: 
From thefe the body of the triad flows before’ 
it had a being, not the body of the firft triad, 
but of that by which things are meafured. 
Jegod mewtoc Deoos, ev 3 aga ecw 
Hepios, FelT0s AAAI, o¢ EV Mug THY Jove, Tahrere 
“The firft courfe is facred, the aerial is in 
the middle, and there is another as a third, 
which nourifhes eartia in fire. 
Onopuns eegizi4og, 4 auegizos. 
An entire and impartible divifion.: 
_ Apopenios ves ELUTOV, SKEVOD ETFEL/O;LEVOG 
Toy tumov weecanreodat Tay sidwrov. 
for he affimilates himfelf, he haftening ta’ 
inveit himfelf with the form of the images: 
Eccaptvou mavlevyoyv ahuny dwlog xehadovtog 
Adun rpiyAsseo voy, Luyny 0° omacarla. 
Tlavroroy cuvOnia Barasiv ppers. 
Mn) EMLPOTAY EM TUPLOLG omopaony oxerose 
Adha oiGapndoy. i 
‘Nor to approach in’a fcattered manner to the © 
empyrean channels, but collectively. : 
‘Tt appears to be a circumftance of a 
moft fingular nature, that the oracles 
refpecting the divine orders, which were 
delivered by Chaldzan Vheurgifis, un 
der the reign of Marcus Antoninus, 
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tually the cafe, every one who is capa~ 
ble of underftanding the writings of 
Plato, and his moft genuine difciple Pro- 
clus, will be fully convinced. VHe’phi- 
lofophic reader, who is defirous of ob- 

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