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1f the worlds, father of the •ones/ artificer of the Gad*, it is hot/ to j Thee, O king, the intellectual Gods sing, thee, O blessed God, the Cotmagi, those fulgid eyes, and starry intellect*, celebrate, rouDd which the illustrious body [of the world] dances. All the race of the blessed sing thy praise, those that are about, and those that are in the world, the tonic Gods, and aluo the szorTic,* who govern the parts of the world, wise itinerants, stationed about the illus- trious pilots [of the universe,] and which the angelic series pours forth. Thee too, the renowned by occult paths pervades the In another part also of the same hymn, he informs us that he adored the powers that preside over Thrace snd Chakedou. ' What these ire will be shortly eiplained, when we come to speak of the Apostle PauL *Syne*ius does not here speak conformably tothe Chaldean theelogists, from whom he has derived these ap- pellations. For the i<n*M and the •fmst, are according to tbem Goda, the farmer being the divinities af the stars, and the latter forming that order of Gods which is called by Proehis in the sixth book of this week amxvnfi &• Urated. Both these orders therefore, are superior to the angelic series. Thisunseiai Jews, hut to all the fathers of the church, and all th.Christjan divines tLt^succeede i J ' Ptoc. Vol. I. Digitized by Google • INTRODUCTION. »i r curntifar i. e. " I have supplicated the ministrant Gods that possess the Thracian soil, and also those that, in an opposite direction, govern the Chalcedonian land." And in the hurt place he says (in Hymn I.) tXrya fur, <»AA* eur*{, uf w iram) xvn; oupovw ihttvtf to J* »Acr t»vrs ftAwrw, • 8| XOI geiroiTi fl"«rp«* ^ttMSD tUfff* The substance of which is, " lhat incorruptible intellect which is wholly an emanation of divinity, is totally diffused through the whole world, convolves the heavens, and preserves the universe with which it is present distributed in various forms. That one part of this intellect is distributed among the stars, and becomes, as it were, their charioteer ; but another part among the angelic choirs ; and another part is bound in a terrestrial form." I confess I am wholly at a loss to conceive what could induce the moderns to controvert the dogma, that the stars and the whole world arc animated, as it is an opinion of infinite antiquity, and is frieadly to the most unperverted, spontaneous, and accurate conceptions of the human mind.
2ss to conceive what could induce the moderns to controvert the dogma, that the stars and the whole world arc animated, as it is an opinion of infinite antiquity, and is frieadly to the most unperverted, spontaneous, and accurate conceptions of the human mind. Indeed, the rejection of it appears to me to be just as absurd as it would be in a maggot, if it Digitized by Google INTRODUCTION. SIX were capable of syllogizing, to infer that man is a machine impelled by some external force he walk*, because it never saw any animated reptile so large. The sagacious Kepler, for so he is called even by the roost modem writers,' appears to have had a conception of this great truth ; but as he was more an astronomer than a philosopher, he saw this truth only partially, and be rather embraced it as subservient to his own astronomical opinions, than as forming an essential part of the true theory of the universe. Bat from what 1 have seen of the writings of Kepler, I have no doubt, if he had lived in the time of the Greeks, or if he hud made the stody of the works of Plato and Aristotle the business of his life, be would have become an adept in, and an illustrious and zealous champiou of their philosophy. Kepler then Cm Hanno- Mundi, lib. 4, p. 158) says, " That he docs not oppose the dogma, that there is a soul of the he shall say nothing about it kt that book. He adds, that if there is such a soul, it must reside in the centre of the world, which, according to him, is the sun, and from theoce by the communication of the rays of light, which are in the place of spirits in an animated body, is propagated into all the amplitude of the world."* In the following passages also be confidently asserts that the earth has a soul. For he says, " That the globe of the earth is a body such as is that of some animal ; and that what its own soul is to an animal, that the sublunary nature which he investigates will be to the earth.'" He adds, " That he sees for the most part every thing which proceeding from the body of an animal testifies that there it a soul in it, proceeds also from the body of the earth. For as the animated body produces in the super- ficies of the skin hairs, thus also the earth produces [on its surface] plants and trees ; and as in the and marine monsters are produced. As the animated body likewise produces tears, mucus, and the recrement of the can, and sometimes gam from the pustules of the face, thus also the earth pro- ■ Dr.
3produces [on its surface] plants and trees ; and as in the and marine monsters are produced. As the animated body likewise produces tears, mucus, and the recrement of the can, and sometimes gam from the pustules of the face, thus also the earth pro- ■ Dr. Or* gory, in the TOth proposition of.lbe fint book af hi< Element* of Aitronomy, aayi of Kepler, " Tint hi, archetypal ratio, geometrical conciamtin, and harmonic proportions, »bow »urh a fore* of geniui at u not to be found iaaay of the writari of physical attfoaeasy before him. So that Jeremiah Hovtoz, a very competent jodgc of tbeae mat- tan, though a littla avarw to Kapler, in the beginning af his aatrotwarical atadiea, after baring in rail tried other., jnUtftdman aSewaU mri»U staisrt I mm, aUl kirn great, aumt, «■ ew» -wuiJumf »r< ; \vu* k£*U to b. r«W aW tAe ■rAoie (riie 4 pHUHphm. Him aJ«« I* tat 6«r* nag a/.-f/tm ,Um, tkc pkiwpAer, read; Mag aortal «/ tUf, thai *<•*• hat Keller hwaUthawa." I qaate this passage, aat from UV ju.toeai of the encomium it contaias; for it is eatraragant, and by no menu true, Kepler. 1 " El primum qnidem de anima lotiiin unireni eUi non rcpngno, nihil tamen hoc libro IV. dicam. ViJrtui emoi (ai cat tali* aliqua) in ccntro mondi, quod mihl »ol eat, retidere, indeque in omnem eju araplitudiucm cammercio radioruiu iocia, qai lint toco aptriuiuin in corpora animali propagati." ' •' DaealoM t«r« riohm rale eonm eriL ooala ~i aJiron -oWi, , — t— eat aua aaraaa, hoc erit tclluri Digitized by Google XX INTRODUCTION. duces amber and bitumen. At the bladder too produces urine, thus likewise mountain* pour forth rivers. And as the body produces excrement of a sulphureous odour, and crepitus which may als* be inflamed, so the earth produces sulphur, subterranean fires, thunder, and lightning. And as in the veins of an animal blood is generated, and together with it sweat which is ejected out of the body, so in the veins of the earth, metals, and fossils, and a rainy vapour are generated.- ■ And in cap. 7, p- 162, after having shown that there is in the earth Ibe tense of touching, that it respire*}, tad is subject in certain parts to languors, mid internal vicissitudes of the viscera, and that subterranean heat proceeds from the soul of the earth, he adds, " That a certain image of the zodiac is resplend- ent in this soul, and therefore of the whole nrinament, and is the bond of the sympathy of things Bishop Berkeley also was by no weans hostile to this opinion, that the world it one great , as is evident from the following extract from his
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1f the worlds, father of the •ones/ artificer of the Gad*, it is hot/ to j Thee, O king, the intellectual Gods sing, thee, O blessed God, the Cotmagi, those fulgid eyes, and starry intellect*, celebrate, rouDd which the illustrious body [of the world] dances. All the race of the blessed sing thy praise, those that are about, and those that are in the world, the tonic Gods, and aluo the szorTic,* who govern the parts of the world, wise itinerants, stationed about the illus- trious pilots [of the universe,] and which the angelic series pours forth. Thee too, the renowned by occult paths pervades the In another part also of the same hymn, he informs us that he adored the powers that preside over Thrace snd Chakedou. ' What these ire will be shortly eiplained, when we come to speak of the Apostle PauL *Syne*ius does not here speak conformably tothe Chaldean theelogists, from whom he has derived these ap- pellations. For the i<n*M and the •fmst, are according to tbem Goda, the farmer being the divinities af the stars, and the latter forming that order of Gods which is called by Proehis in the sixth book of this week amxvnfi &• Urated. Both these orders therefore, are superior to the angelic series. Thisunseiai Jews, hut to all the fathers of the church, and all th.Christjan divines tLt^succeede i J ' Ptoc. Vol. I. Digitized by Google • INTRODUCTION. »i r curntifar i. e. " I have supplicated the ministrant Gods that possess the Thracian soil, and also those that, in an opposite direction, govern the Chalcedonian land." And in the hurt place he says (in Hymn I.) tXrya fur, <»AA* eur*{, uf w iram) xvn; oupovw ihttvtf to J* »Acr t»vrs ftAwrw, • 8| XOI geiroiTi fl"«rp«* ^ttMSD tUfff* The substance of which is, " lhat incorruptible intellect which is wholly an emanation of divinity, is totally diffused through the whole world, convolves the heavens, and preserves the universe with which it is present distributed in various forms. That one part of this intellect is distributed among the stars, and becomes, as it were, their charioteer ; but another part among the angelic choirs ; and another part is bound in a terrestrial form." I confess I am wholly at a loss to conceive what could induce the moderns to controvert the dogma, that the stars and the whole world arc animated, as it is an opinion of infinite antiquity, and is frieadly to the most unperverted, spontaneous, and accurate conceptions of the human mind.
2ss to conceive what could induce the moderns to controvert the dogma, that the stars and the whole world arc animated, as it is an opinion of infinite antiquity, and is frieadly to the most unperverted, spontaneous, and accurate conceptions of the human mind. Indeed, the rejection of it appears to me to be just as absurd as it would be in a maggot, if it Digitized by Google INTRODUCTION. SIX were capable of syllogizing, to infer that man is a machine impelled by some external force he walk*, because it never saw any animated reptile so large. The sagacious Kepler, for so he is called even by the roost modem writers,' appears to have had a conception of this great truth ; but as he was more an astronomer than a philosopher, he saw this truth only partially, and be rather embraced it as subservient to his own astronomical opinions, than as forming an essential part of the true theory of the universe. Bat from what 1 have seen of the writings of Kepler, I have no doubt, if he had lived in the time of the Greeks, or if he hud made the stody of the works of Plato and Aristotle the business of his life, be would have become an adept in, and an illustrious and zealous champiou of their philosophy. Kepler then Cm Hanno- Mundi, lib. 4, p. 158) says, " That he docs not oppose the dogma, that there is a soul of the he shall say nothing about it kt that book. He adds, that if there is such a soul, it must reside in the centre of the world, which, according to him, is the sun, and from theoce by the communication of the rays of light, which are in the place of spirits in an animated body, is propagated into all the amplitude of the world."* In the following passages also be confidently asserts that the earth has a soul. For he says, " That the globe of the earth is a body such as is that of some animal ; and that what its own soul is to an animal, that the sublunary nature which he investigates will be to the earth.'" He adds, " That he sees for the most part every thing which proceeding from the body of an animal testifies that there it a soul in it, proceeds also from the body of the earth. For as the animated body produces in the super- ficies of the skin hairs, thus also the earth produces [on its surface] plants and trees ; and as in the and marine monsters are produced. As the animated body likewise produces tears, mucus, and the recrement of the can, and sometimes gam from the pustules of the face, thus also the earth pro- ■ Dr.
3produces [on its surface] plants and trees ; and as in the and marine monsters are produced. As the animated body likewise produces tears, mucus, and the recrement of the can, and sometimes gam from the pustules of the face, thus also the earth pro- ■ Dr. Or* gory, in the TOth proposition of.lbe fint book af hi< Element* of Aitronomy, aayi of Kepler, " Tint hi, archetypal ratio, geometrical conciamtin, and harmonic proportions, »bow »urh a fore* of geniui at u not to be found iaaay of the writari of physical attfoaeasy before him. So that Jeremiah Hovtoz, a very competent jodgc of tbeae mat- tan, though a littla avarw to Kapler, in the beginning af his aatrotwarical atadiea, after baring in rail tried other., jnUtftdman aSewaU mri»U staisrt I mm, aUl kirn great, aumt, «■ ew» -wuiJumf »r< ; \vu* k£*U to b. r«W aW tAe ■rAoie (riie 4 pHUHphm. Him aJ«« I* tat 6«r* nag a/.-f/tm ,Um, tkc pkiwpAer, read; Mag aortal «/ tUf, thai *<•*• hat Keller hwaUthawa." I qaate this passage, aat from UV ju.toeai of the encomium it contaias; for it is eatraragant, and by no menu true, Kepler. 1 " El primum qnidem de anima lotiiin unireni eUi non rcpngno, nihil tamen hoc libro IV. dicam. ViJrtui emoi (ai cat tali* aliqua) in ccntro mondi, quod mihl »ol eat, retidere, indeque in omnem eju araplitudiucm cammercio radioruiu iocia, qai lint toco aptriuiuin in corpora animali propagati." ' •' DaealoM t«r« riohm rale eonm eriL ooala ~i aJiron -oWi, , — t— eat aua aaraaa, hoc erit tclluri Digitized by Google XX INTRODUCTION. duces amber and bitumen. At the bladder too produces urine, thus likewise mountain* pour forth rivers. And as the body produces excrement of a sulphureous odour, and crepitus which may als* be inflamed, so the earth produces sulphur, subterranean fires, thunder, and lightning. And as in the veins of an animal blood is generated, and together with it sweat which is ejected out of the body, so in the veins of the earth, metals, and fossils, and a rainy vapour are generated.- ■ And in cap. 7, p- 162, after having shown that there is in the earth Ibe tense of touching, that it respire*}, tad is subject in certain parts to languors, mid internal vicissitudes of the viscera, and that subterranean heat proceeds from the soul of the earth, he adds, " That a certain image of the zodiac is resplend- ent in this soul, and therefore of the whole nrinament, and is the bond of the sympathy of things Bishop Berkeley also was by no weans hostile to this opinion, that the world it one great , as is evident from the following extract from his
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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