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502 35| execute the sentence, and he commit you to the prison of hell,
503 32| it to possess, and which commits the bodily substance receiving
504 27| one, and ever afterwards communicated to the human race the normal
505 38| ministry of the eye, and communicates its pleasure to another,
506 36| in consequence of which a community of gender is secured to
507 42| relation to us, that also which compacts and composes us must be
508 5 | loss of vigour which its companion sustains, whose shame and
509 48| three brethren, who were the companions of Daniel, being content
510 52| otherwise, when so close a companionship of soul and body, so inseparable
511 55| meet Him at His coming, in company with the dead in Christ,
512 6 | one, how can it challenge comparison with the nature and law
513 10| at any conjectures from comparisons of this sort? Man, indeed,
514 23| afterwards having, by the compassion of the Supreme Power (in
515 51| immortal; (and this fact) compels us to believe that death
516 30| the failure precedes the compensation? Indeed, this furlough of
517 58| undergoes in Hades some compensatory discipline, without prejudice
518 24| the soul with a natural competency for understanding those
519 30| our view (and occasions complaint), is our teeming population:
520 43| a manner more fully and completely than Plato's example, by
521 36| moulded and tempered in a completer way, for Adam was first
522 37| of sowing, forming, and completing the human embryo in the
523 57| evil, not, to be sure, by a complicity with them, but by a certain
524 55| law of His being He fully complied, by remaining in Hades in
525 42| also which compacts and composes us must be unconnected with
526 9 | figure, it would be of a composite and structural formation.
527 1 | affectation of an assumed composure, rather than the firm conviction
528 9 | figure is, according to him, compound, and composed of parts;
529 18| which cannot by any means comprehend spiritual things. From the
530 11| spiritual germ which passes my comprehension: (they make it to have been)
531 37| condition, and one that is more compressed at the moment than it will
532 28| any of his former Trojan comrades? For they, too, must by
533 28| forth from the place of his concealment and deceit, and pretends
534 28| us. He feigns death, he conceals himself underground, he
535 24| Well, now, no one will concede to you that the knowledge, (
536 24| of memory; because he has conceded to it so large an amount
537 58| the soul is the first to conceive them, the first to arrange
538 18| exactly the same way that it conceives incorporeal objects by help
539 26| again, those extraordinary conceptions, which were more wonderful
540 15| pulled out their hearts. (He concludes), therefore, that there
541 43| predicated of us as a process of concoction, which is an operation concerned
542 25| from an illicit or debased concubinage, I hardly know whether he
543 25| having been duly deposited ex concubiter in the womb, and having
544 28| himself underground, he condemns himself to that endurance
545 9 | internal feature, which the condensation had filled in, and so have
546 33| practitioners--is buried with condiments served in the most piquant
547 53| operation, but not in essential condition--bankrupt in solvency, not
548 49| take away as well as to confer the faculty of dreams; and
549 32| man resembles a beast, you confess that their soul is not identical;
550 57| sorely against his will confesses all the truth. So also in
551 56| persons to advance them with confidence. It was believed that the
552 25| of anxiety, as making you confident that your infant both possesses
553 37| condition of the mass but its configuration. In like manner, the growth
554 43| altogether, nor does it confine to the still hours of sleep
555 54| quitting the flesh to the conflagration of all things, and as the
556 34| search; after a ten years' conflict he boldly rescues her: there
557 2 | principles there are, what conflicts of opinion, what prolific
558 2 | valid, and occasionally conformable to their system of belief.
559 1 | that power) which alone can confute this most pernicious influence
560 35| PYTHAGOREAN DOGMAS, STATED AND CONFUTED.~However, it is not for
561 33| and slavery, how will they congratulate themselves on the mild labour
562 18| understanding is indissolubly connected. Granted now that the understanding
563 25| other things in natural connection with the soul--for instance,
564 52| embracing his son who had just conquered in the Olympic games; or
565 30| tribes, or as exiles, or as conquerors--as the Scythians in Parthia,
566 41| primeval good; and being conscious of its origin, it bears
567 43| FUNCTION AS SHOWN BY OTHER CONSIDERATIONS, AND BY THE TESTIMONY OF
568 33| barbarous sentences of death consign to various wild beasts,
569 56| the wicked deserve to be consigned W those abodes; if you mean
570 47| third class of dreams will consist of those which the soul
571 1 | assumption led me, that the soul consisted rather in an adaptation
572 17| again, show still greater consistency, in maintaining that all
573 34| refute this conceit, as a consistent sequel to the preceding
574 34| destruction of the truth, as if to console himself with revenge. Besides
575 44| good citizens of Clazomenae consoled poor Hermotimus with a temple,
576 46| imprinted on the pudenda of his consort Olympias the form of a small
577 14| the whole of these details constitute only one instrument. In
578 18| that we are so made and constituted as not to know that we have
579 46| DREAMS.~We now find ourselves constrained to express an opinion about
580 14| it had been possible to construct it and to destroy it, it
581 12| meant his criticism to be constructive, and to fill up a system
582 5 | generated with (the body,) constructs his argument in this way:
583 51| they will not have the body consumed at its funeral by fire,
584 37| estimate of the time needed to consummate our natural birth should
585 35| doctrine,) this life became consummated to no man until all those
586 53| decline, seeming to suffer consumption, and suggests to us the
587 7 | soul could not possibly contain a finger of a bodily substance;
588 37| than it will be; yet it contains within its contour what
589 48| pulse alone, to escape the contamination of the royal dishes, received
590 18| serenity when he indulges in contemplation for the purpose of acquiring
591 27| inseparable, and therefore contemporaneous and simultaneous in origin.
592 30| PYTHAGOREAN THEORY. THE STATE OF CONTEMPORARY CIVILISATION.~But what must
593 33| human judgments; they are contemptible as punishments, dis- gusting
594 19| avoidance of the wall. It is contented (if it be only a little
595 26| so strong, and already so contentious; and all this, I suppose,
596 13| title-page and table of contents, "De Anima" ("A treatise
597 3 | required to try our strength in contests about the soul with philosophers,
598 44| without death, and that by continual recurrence, as if habitual
599 29| the beginning must have continued in both of its relations,
600 43| when it is, the fatigue continues no longer. Nor can I allow
601 50| voice of God; such is the contract with everything which is
602 43| they have decided to be contrariant to nature, and by such decision
603 18| objects--as of lofty ones contrasted with humble--not in the
604 28| dream, by such arts and contrivances as these? Might not the
605 6 | prison of Socrates, do yet contrive to live? For it is not the
606 48| speaking, dreams will be under control of a man's will, if they
607 17| these are occasioned and controlled by our senses, which only
608 3 | decided one point in our controversy with Hermogenes, as we said
609 26| THE QUESTIONS WE HAVE BEEN CONTROVERTING.~Now there is no end to
610 25| ailments--so far that with your contusions and bruises would he actually
611 35| be not allowed us to have conversation with them. He bids us, therefore,
612 9 | s day in the church: she converses with angels, and sometimes
613 19| AN EXAMPLE FROM ARISTOTLE CONVERTED INTO EVIDENCE FAVOURABLE
614 11| Scripture, and with this view converts breath into spirit, because
615 33| recollect the mines, and the convict-gangs, and the public works, and
616 28| win my belief? How will he convince me that, before he was Pythagoras,
617 51| the whole head of hair is copious or scanty in proportion
618 25| instrument in the shape of) a copper needle or spike, by which
619 16| nocturnal spoiler of the crop of corn.~
620 43| decision have determined as its corollary that sleep is perfectly
621 32| on carrion, even on human corpses in some bear or lion? But
622 5 | Tangere enim et tangi nisi corpus nulla potest res."~"For
623 10| forming such infinitesimal corpuscles, you can still recognise
624 37| our natural birth should correspond to the numerical classification
625 51| eliminated from the corpse all corrupting matter? As for the nails,
626 34| STIMULATED SOME PROFANE CORRUPTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY. THE PROFANITY
627 1 | expels the old ones; it corrupts not youth, but instructs
628 30| once were hardly solitary cottages, there are now large cities.
629 20| regarded the nature of the country which gave promise of mental
630 33| fact that it receives its coup de grace from the hands
631 33| receive his sentence in the courts of Pythagoras and Empedocles?
632 17| density of the surrounding air covering its angles with a similar
633 20| the Phrygians for their cowardice; Sallust reproaches the
634 19| of another woman, and the cradle that is not his own, and
635 52| of laughter, like Publius Crassus,--yet death is much too
636 46| Epi- charmus, Serapion, Cratippus, and Dionysius of Rhodes,
637 25| novel sound; and you would crave for injurious diet, or would
638 1 | treatment would not suggest a craving for consolation, but rather
639 10| and slugs, by their slimy crawl. Why should you not then
640 23| and unable to stand, he crawled upon the ground like a worm,
641 15| hearts?" when David prays "Create in me a clean heart, O God,"
642 47| the soul itself apparently creates for itself from an intense
643 10| remember that God manifests His creative greatness quite as much
644 46| for the dreams to which credit has to be ascribed even
645 28| which are too hard to be credited, because he has played the
646 44| the soul from the body, credulity should not be encouraged
647 19| web and woof rather than creep on the ground and be trodden
648 20| even the apostle brands the Cretans as "liars." Very likely,
649 52| gliding course, with merry crews, they founder amidst entire
650 19| saluted life with his infant cries, does not testify to his
651 45| actions are useless, and crimes harmless; for we shall no
652 33| penalties awarded to other crimes--gibbets, and holocausts,
653 33| their horrible office the criminal who has committed murder,
654 5 | water; as Empedocles and Critias (do) out of blood; as Epicurus (
655 37| Decima, called after the most critical months of gestation; and
656 12| but whether he meant his criticism to be constructive, and
657 24| him, he will yet dread the crow of the cock. In like manner
658 45| of sin, than we shall be crowned for imaginary martyrdom.
659 46| Polycrates of Samos foresaw the crucifixion which awaited him from the
660 18| torturing simple knowledge and crucifying the truth? Who can show
661 6 | to surfeit them with the crumbs from the minute nostrums
662 19| every foot that likes to crush them. On the other hand,
663 53| ruin, which at a stroke crushes every vital action, like
664 15| with Zenophanes, that it culminates in the crown of the head;
665 21| except by the same process of cultivation. Stones also will become
666 2 | aspect of the world with cunning knowledge of this (philosophic)
667 23| heretics borrow from Plato are cunningly defended by this kind of
668 2 | claims as her function to cure the body, and thereby to
669 46| Plato. The boxer Leonymus is cured by Achilles in his dreams.
670 35| He, "pray for them that curse you," lest such a man in
671 27| Excess, however, has He cursed, in adulteries, and wantonness,
672 31| evermore in their revolving cycles, it would be proper for
673 20| for their levity, and the Dalmatians for their cruelty; even
674 57| Typhon, and Dardanus, and Damigeron, and Nectabis, and Berenice.
675 30| what were once dreary and dangerous wastes; cultivated fields
676 57| Ostanes, and Typhon, and Dardanus, and Damigeron, and Nectabis,
677 10| and buzz, nor even in the dark are they unable to find
678 28| amidst hunger, idleness, and darkness--with a profound disgust
679 38| nor because the civil laws date the commencement of the
680 15| evil in your hearts?" when David prays "Create in me a clean
681 56| immediately after the soul's de- parture from the body; whether
682 18| hears--all else is blind and deaf." To the same purport he
683 28| ancient than Saturn a good deal (by some nine hundred years
684 33| and rewards, too severe in dealing out its vengeance, and too
685 35| until it be found in none a debtor to the claims of a virtuous
686 53| every rapid death--such as a decapitation, or a breaking of the neck,
687 46| Troy; and as he removes the decayed stones, he returns enriched
688 43| that sleep is a cooling or decaying of the animal heat, for
689 52| case of each individual decease; the extraordinary is said
690 56| himself, along with the deceased, to increased injury and
691 47| proportionately vain, and deceitful, and obscure, and wanton,
692 28| believing Pythagoras to be a deceiver, who practises deceit to
693 17| deserve to be regarded as deceptions. Whatever ought to occur
694 37| the goddesses) Nona and Decima, called after the most critical
695 5 | also to help me, who, while declaring almost in our own terms
696 31| soul, whilst disembodied, decreases thus by retrogression of
697 29| because after youth comes the decrepitude of senility; nor that folly
698 6 | faculties. And from this (they deduce what is to them) the manifest
699 18| senses, for the purpose of deducing from the allegation of such
700 30| usual sustenance. In very deed, pestilence, and famine,
701 2 | from sacred sources, as men deem them, because in ancient
702 23| give them the superiority--deeming them, forsooth, to have
703 24| thereof, which Plato himself deems the very safeguard of the
704 35| soul has fallen short as a defaulter in sin, it has to be recalled
705 10| nor can the ant, although defective in these organs, be on that
706 2 | faith; and at other times defend opinions which are especially
707 23| from Plato are cunningly defended by this kind of argument,
708 6 | opinions of the philosophers, defends the corporeality of the
709 50| ourselves: they procure their defensive armour from the very place
710 2 | whom Plato paid very great deference; and the Phrygian Silenus,
711 31| as the same, if they were deficient in those characteristics
712 5 | substance. Indeed, Zeno, defining the soul to be a spirit
713 11| must call it spirit in a definitive sense--not because of its
714 39| forgotten what the Lord had so definitively stated: "Except a man be
715 53| that the soul escapes by degrees, and piece by piece; for
716 46| this) when liberating the Deity from all sort of care, and
717 47| When, however, with the deliberate aim after evil, of which
718 32| as exquisite viands, feed deliberately on, I will not say husks,
719 17| as well as in fact). The delicacy of the substance or medium
720 24| invisible, incapable of delineation, uniform, supreme, rational,
721 35| the smallest even of your delinquencies be paid off in the period
722 38| unnatural incentives to delinquency; for its impulse has by
723 1 | ship had returned (from Delos), the hemlock draft to which
724 28| formerly consecrated at Delphi, and claimed it as his own,
725 17| to the injunction of the Delphic oracle; and in the Theoetetus
726 57| is no difficult matter to delude the external vision of a
727 46| the ivory one of error and delusion. For, they say, it is possible
728 18| it is his soul that is demented--not because the mind is
729 34| and in order that, by the demolition of the metempsychosis and
730 25| the soul--for instance, of demoniacal possession; and that not
731 10| Moths also gnaw and eat: demonstrate to me their mandibles, reveal
732 41| the interposition of so dense a body; so likewise the
733 54| draught of air only renders denser still the impurities of
734 9 | stereotyped). Hence, by this densifying process, there arose a fixing
735 17| notice; for the uniform density of the surrounding air covering
736 17| believe that He was a phantom, denying to Him the reality of a
737 35| body, from which he had not departed, but for the purpose of
738 18| SOUL.~I turn now to the department of our intellectual faculties,
739 16| and subdivides it into two departments the irascible, which they
740 52| which made his condition depend on a warning, and death
741 33| are his subjects, all his dependants. If by and by he is to become
742 28| that not be false, which depends for its evidence on a falsehood?--
743 25| human seed having been duly deposited ex concubiter in the womb,
744 39| birth are still obscured and depraved by the malignant being who,
745 24| senses, which philosophy depreciates by her preference for the
746 42| unconnected with us. If the deprivation of our sensation be nothing
747 19| notice those writers who deprive the soul of the intellect
748 17| and in the Theoetetus he deprives himself of the faculties
749 32| height, or any considerable depth, and which is also fatigued
750 55| superimposed on the abysmal depths which lie still lower down.
751 20| proverbial notoriety. Comic poets deride the Phrygians for their
752 55| heights of heaven before descending into the lower parts of
753 11| So that we are driven to describe, by (the term which indicates
754 17| Indeed, unless the eye had descried a round shape in that tower,
755 17| herd; Athamas and Agave descry wild beasts in their children.
756 5 | corporeal, it could not desert the body.~
757 5 | body); for when the body is deserted by the soul, it is overcome
758 34| anticipating the Father's design had produced the angelic
759 14| natural order. Now, under what designations these energies are to be
760 39| children of believers were designed for holiness, and thereby
761 16| by which He so earnestly desired to eat the pass over with
762 57| said,) could possibly be despatched from those abodes to report
763 51| that Plato, although he despatches at once to heaven such souls
764 53| the circumstances of the despoiled person, not to any real
765 54| true, does not allow this destination to all the souls, indiscriminately,
766 3 | its departure to different destinations. The various schools reflect
767 19| the condition which nature destines for it. Else what resources
768 33| accomplish and experience the destinies which they shall deserve;
769 15| and Asclepiades, have thus destroyed the (soul's) directing power,
770 42| Epicurus does), cannot help destroying death also. As for ourselves,
771 12| of his own, rather than destructive of the principles of others,
772 14| but yet the whole of these details constitute only one instrument.
773 26| womb, and was trying to detain (the other) outside? I suppose
774 56| that no man should, by detaining in his house the corpse
775 16| that second, later, and deteriorated nature (of which we have
776 22| various ways, free in its determinations, subject to be changes of
777 43| agree with the Stoics, by determining the soul to be a temporary
778 53| of the body are severally devastated by an injury proper to each
779 37| like manner, the growth and developments of the soul are to be estimated,
780 24| from the first capable of deviation from perfection and right,
781 28| For, as to the man who devised such a tricksty scheme,
782 24| domestic and public cares, but devoted only to those studies the
783 33| obsequies in a banquet, is devoured by respectable (mouths)
784 43| natural function, has the dialectical experts calling in question
785 39| invoke the aid of Lucina and Diana; for a whole week a table
786 35| sense of the divine pre- diction, "Behold, I will send you
787 33| the chaste and excellent Dido? What bird shall fall to
788 25| would crave for injurious diet, or would even loathe your
789 8 | various, by reason of their differencs; so diverse, in that some
790 40| ministering service. Therefore the differentia, or distinguishing property,
791 57| attached to it; and it is no difficult matter to delude the external
792 6 | quench this man's doubts and difficulties about the condition of the
793 14| the unity of the soul, as diffused over the entire body, and
794 10| taking into their system, digesting, and ejecting food. What
795 25| return to the cause of this digression, in order that I may explain
796 24| to possess something of a diluted divinity and an attenuated
797 9 | limitation; and that triad of dimensions--I mean length, and breadth
798 32| larger animals, or in very diminutive ones? It must needs be,
799 45| exercise these faculties may be dimmed in us, it is still not extinguished;
800 27| prostration along with a dimness of sight? This, then, must
801 33| it--exaggerated in both directions, in its office both of punishments
802 52| very birth. If man had been directly appointed to die as the
803 1 | concerning (man's) soul, it directs its inquiry according to
804 33| contemptible as punishments, dis- gusting as rewards; such
805 51| which is itself destined to disappear when time shall have abolished
806 30| nor fewer than they who disappeared (in death). We find, however,
807 19| although the philosophers disavow it. Even the infancy of
808 19| the babe knows his mother, discerns the nurse, and even recognises
809 27| both the soul and the flesh discharge a duty together: the soul
810 27| his seminal substance is discharged, deriving its fluidity from
811 58| of His promised spiritual disclosures. And now at last having,
812 20| their race. But all these discordances ought to have existed in
813 21| Scripture will never be discordant with truth. A corrupt tree
814 46| destroyer of (Rome's) civil discords. This is recorded in the
815 13| when it is their purpose to discourse about the mind, do in every
816 6 | body? Soranus, then, after discoursing about the soul in the amplest
817 18| the senses, and a better discoverer of mysteries, what matters
818 15| prophet is reproved by His discovering to him the secrets of the
819 46| Sophocles the tragic poet discovers, as he was dreaming, the
820 17| round; because also it will discredit the fact of the truly parallel
821 17| we are (the cause of the discrepancies, by) changing our opinions.
822 36| THE HUMAN RACE.~For the discussion of these questions we abandoned,
823 32| that account, I suppose, disdained to have it thought that
824 45| especial comfort, the soul, disdaining a repose which is not natural
825 44| nightmare, or perhaps that diseased languor which Soranus suggests
826 31| infant? If the soul, whilst disembodied, decreases thus by retrogression
827 35| blemishes which are held to disfigure it have been fully displayed
828 30| off redundant population, disgorging into other abodes their
829 34| body, she, in her final disgrace, turned out a viler Helen
830 33| in labourers, or foully disgraced in the unclean; or, again,
831 28| darkness--with a profound disgust for the mighty sky--what
832 32| fit only now for) a light dish after the roast-meat. At
833 34| them anywhere after her dishonour, she was degraded even to
834 32| duties to fulfil, likings, dislikes, vices, desires, pleasures,
835 35| of which there will be no dismissal until the smallest even
836 9 | soul. After the people are dismissed at the conclusion of the
837 17| the senses, therefore, are disordered occasionally, or imposed
838 17| But Plato, in order to disparage the testimony of the senses,
839 43| He has, generally, in His dispensations brought nothing to pass
840 17| might understand, inhabit, dispense, and enjoy them, (you reproach)
841 50| security and safety, and which dispenses with the ordinary law of
842 35| disfigure it have been fully displayed in its conduct; because
843 35| Then, again, should you be disposed to apply the term "adversary"
844 30| present life would be quite disproportioned to the period of a thousand
845 26| the bowels of Rebecca are disquieted, though her child-bearing
846 25| Erasistratus, and Herophilus, that dissector of even adults, and the
847 43| bear future absence by a dissembling of its presence for the
848 6 | filling four volumes with his dissertations, and after weighing well
849 52| some internal shock. Not dissimilar are the shipwrecks of life,--
850 32| even then observed, when dissimilarity of substance is most conspicuous:
851 33| separation from the body, was not dissipated back into the soul of the
852 42| man to suffer death, which dissolves the body and destroys the
853 46| from all sort of care, and dissolving the entire order of the
854 11| spirit, in the scriptural and distinctive sense of the spirit; and
855 29| labours with much ingenuity to distinguish different kinds of contraries;
856 5 | afflicted with anxiety, distress, or love) in the loss of
857 14| indeed divided, but rather distributed in natural order. Now, under
858 9 | them who are in need she distributes remedies. Whether it be
859 20| at Athens, where in the district of Colythus children speak--
860 30| have also enriched other districts with loans of even larger
861 18| body, on the ground of its disturbing the soul, and not allowing
862 10| death itself changes and disturbs the natural functions of
863 53| lodge, when it is bare and divested of the body? We must certainly
864 46| very highest place among divinations to dreams. The whole world
865 24| show that the soul has a divining faculty, as we have already
866 18| into the nature of things; divorcing himself with all his might
867 33| terrible in their idle, do-nothing routine? Then, again, in
868 35| OFFSET FROM THE PYTHAGOREAN DOGMAS, STATED AND CONFUTED.~However,
869 32| become kites, lewd persons dogs, ill-tempered ones panthers,
870 2 | traversed every road in her domains. To the Christian, however,
871 24| souls, not yet immersed in domestic and public cares, but devoted
872 49| force of demons of this sort domineers in those barbarous regions.
873 50| has made immortal? Let my (doubting) Thomas see them, let him
874 32| swallows, and chaste men doves, as if the selfsame substance
875 1 | from Delos), the hemlock draft to which he had been condemned
876 57| less of a prophet, can be dragged out of (its resting-place
877 27| which proceeds from the drainage of the flesh. Most true
878 30| are planted; marshes are drained; and where once were hardly
879 24| against him, he will yet dread the crow of the cock. In
880 30| longer are (savage) islands dreaded, nor their rocky shores
881 48| such discipline from their dreamers as a gratification to their
882 30| traces of what were once dreary and dangerous wastes; cultivated
883 38| therefore, will desire meat and drink--for itself indeed, because
884 43| were to remove eating and drinking from the conditions of nature?
885 38| which it still excites, and drives man out of the paradise
886 38| complete removal ultimately droops and dies. Now the point
887 7 | tongue, the solace of a drop of water. Do you suppose
888 32| and chameleons rejoice in droughts. So, again, such creatures
889 43| race, Adam, had a taste of drowsiness before having a draught
890 33| mules to be punished by drudgery and slavery, how will they
891 1 | been condemned had been drunk, death was now present before
892 40| concupiscence, appetite, drunkenness, cruelty, idolatry, and
893 32| leaves, and beasts of the dung-hill, and poisonous worms, if
894 57| time, even, the heretical dupes of this same Simon (Magus)
895 57| whom he was then actually dwelling. You must not imagine that
896 38| in its power to quit its dwelling-place, and for want of fit and
897 46| spirits who even at that time dwelt in the eminent persons themselves,
898 56| and vigour of youth and earlier manhood; and encounter serious
899 27| seed lies the promise and earnest of the crop.~
900 23| our souls were enticed by earthly baits down from their super-celestial
901 30| and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a
902 40| by no means lies in his earthy element; nor is the flesh
903 28| proportion as it would be easier for me to believe that he
904 52| we cannot say that the easiest death is so gentle as not
905 25| temperate regions of the East and the West, and men's
906 44| soul--resembling a total eclipse of the sun or the moon--
907 45| that which a sound mind ecstatically experiences whilst the memory
908 18| when it is these which educate it for the discovery of
909 21| children of Abraham, if educated in Abraham's faith; and
910 39| by baptism, and Christian education). "Else," says he, "were
911 32| plunge into the sea in an eel? How, again, shall it, after
912 15| she-goats, and tortoises, and eels, when you have pulled out
913 24| will be insufficient to efface the memory of an age which
914 34| peacock might be got rid of as effectually as Pythagoras in Euphorbus;
915 1 | wife came to him with her effeminate cry, O Socrates, you are
916 48| WHAT BEST CONTRIBUTES TO EFFICIENT DREAMING.~They say that
917 9 | manner frames for the soul an effigy of intellectual forms, beautiful
918 36| point of time, and their effusion is also one and the same,
919 2 | finds access to a spot, or egress from it. In nature, however,
920 14| Chrysippus, into as many as eight; and Apollophanes, into
921 37| kingdom. The ogdoad, or eightfold number, therefore, is not
922 37| this number than in the eighth the honour of a numerical
923 56| ought to have reached full eighty years, how is it possible
924 27| the generative fluid is ejected, feel that somewhat of our
925 10| their system, digesting, and ejecting food. What must we say,
926 10| tell me, you curious and elaborate investigator of these mysteries,
927 23| it had learnt before--he elaborated his new formula, <greek>
928 56| be accomplished by merely elapsing. What, then, is to prevent
929 57| Simon (Magus) are so much elated by the extravagant pretensions
930 32| shall a man's soul fill an elephant? How, likewise, shall it
931 33| human judgment has not too elevated a throne in it--exaggerated
932 51| of the death had already eliminated from the corpse all corrupting
933 26| them in his mother's womb. Elizabeth exults with joy, (for) John
934 37| than it was before by the elongation of the original mass, but
935 57| the sorcerers Simon and Elymas, but the blindness which
936 10| spirits, according as they emanate from God or from the devil.
937 31| TRANSMIGRATION, ITS INEXTRICABLE EMBARRASSMENT.~Again, if this recovery
938 34| has as yet burst upon us, embodying any such extravagant fiction
939 52| the Spartan Chilon, while embracing his son who had just conquered
940 25| function, the name of <greek>embruosqakths</greek>, the slayer of the
941 52| have been (though from the emergence of an external cause ) inseparable
942 48| then the vigour of the soul emerges, and heavy sleep departs.
943 30| more ordinary methods of emigration, which they call <greek>
944 46| indicated. Thus Cicero's eminence, whilst he was still a little
945 44| THE SLEEPLESSNESS OF THE EMPEROR NERO. NO SEPARATION OF THE
946 46| he was destined for the empire of Asia. I find again from
947 3 | be removed, and the means employed by heresy to shake the faith
948 18| exercising sensation when it is employing the intellect. For is it
949 45| exertion of their respective employments: there is the fight, there
950 26| womb. What an infant! so emulous, so strong, and already
951 57| which struck (them) was no enchanter's trick. What novelty is
952 58| last having, as I believe, encountered every human opinion concerning
953 44| credulity should not be encouraged by this case of Hermotimus.
954 58| commencement? a premature encroachment on it, or the first course
955 25| breath of cold air might endanger their life. But in the very
956 | ending
957 2 | with their solution; for "endless questions" the apostle forbids.
958 22| divination, independently of that endowment of prophecy which accrues
959 39| THE VERY BIRTH.~All these endowments of the soul which are bestowed
960 24| the memory of an age which endured so long before the soul'
961 47| condition, the power of enduring whatever incidents befall
962 55| around the moon with the Endymions of the Stoics? No, but in
963 45| time that the ecstasy is energizing in us in its special manner,
964 48| trying to health, is apt to enervate the soul by the lusciosness
965 53| finds itself enjoying its enfranchisement from matter, and by virtue
966 24| any corporeal condition engenders forgetfulness, how will
967 14| impulse of the hydraulic engine, is not divided into separate
968 6 | increase its bulk, but only to enhance its grace. It is, moreover,
969 5 | Lucretius says:~"Tangere enim et tangi nisi corpus nulla
970 17| their impressions than is enjoined on them by the specific
971 17| inhabit, dispense, and enjoy them, (you reproach) as
972 2 | Philosophy, on the one hand, has enjoyed the full scope of her genius;
973 53| light; and then finds itself enjoying its enfranchisement from
974 43| and for the legitimate enjoyment of which day departs, and
975 38| next after the flood He enlarged the grant: "Every moving
976 37| to be estimated, not as enlarging its substance, but as calling
977 8 | theory of) friendship and enmity. Thus, then, although corporeal
978 33| whatsoever! Homer, so dreamt Ennius, remembered that he was
979 28| be plainly false, though ennobled by antiquity. How should
980 6 | arts. Such, however, is the enormous preoccupation of the philosophic
981 32| within a gnat? If it be so enormously extended or contracted,
982 15| the soul, and that it is enshrined in one particular recess
983 35| with bodies, in order to ensure the overthrow by all means
984 43| restoring its energies, for ensuring its health, for supplying
985 2 | cases as being free from the entanglement of any preconceived conceits,
986 32| I could lay hold of the "entelechies" of Aristotle, the chances
987 11| but afterwards the devil entered into him. Consequently,
988 46| her son for so great an enterprise, for Cyrus both inundated
989 44| into which no woman ever enters, because of the infamy of
990 25| vocal sound. This view is entertained by the Stoics, along with
991 23| tells us that our souls were enticed by earthly baits down from
992 10| been really attained, as to entitle him to assume that these
993 6 | the result, so as to be entitled to the designation of an
994 39| spirit cleave, ready to entrap their souls from the very
995 19| woman, to whom it has been entrusted for transmission, and thus
996 53| which it is now placed, it enunciates, by means of its last remnant
997 39| beginning, regarded them with envious eye, so that they are never
998 46| lion of that small ring. Ephorus writes to this effect. Again,
999 46| Antiphon, Strato, Philochorus, Epi- charmus, Serapion, Cratippus,
1000 44| fable has fastened upon Epimenides, who slept on some fifty
1001 16| designate by the term <greek>epiqumhtikon</greek> (in such a way as