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1002 28| to their names and their epochs; giving thus plain proof
1003 3 | the vigour of Zeno, or the equanimity of Aristotle, or the stupidity
1004 19| say is born with the full equipment of its proper faculties.
1005 43| without the body, how well equipped it is with members of its
1006 23| strength to maintain an erect posture; but afterwards
1007 18| PLATO SUGGESTED CERTAIN ERRORS TO THE GNOSTICS. FUNCTIONS
1008 31| bean amongst the common esculents at meals, while Pythagoras
1009 16| its Author, who is Himself esentially rational. For how should
1010 19| husbandman's training, without an espalier, without a prop, whatever
1011 8 | then, although corporeal essences are opposed to incorporeal
1012 15| sanguis circumcordialis est sensus."~"Man has his (supreme)
1013 21| that they may be able to establish and settle their threefold
1014 37| developments of the soul are to be estimated, not as enlarging its substance,
1015 5 | Lucretius says:~"Tangere enim et tangi nisi corpus nulla
1016 | etc
1017 28| Plato's authority for the eternally revolving migration of souls
1018 5 | NATURE.~Suppose one summons a Eubulus to his assistance, and a
1019 34| sight to reward him for his eulogies. After wandering about in
1020 46| Dionysius' tyranny over Sicily. Euphorion has publicly recorded as
1021 8 | carries about the body, which eventually assumes so great a weight
1022 57| to be sure, what almost everybody says of it--that it is an
1023 18| are very remote from men's everyday knowledge, lying in secret--
1024 33| elevated a throne in it--exaggerated in both directions, in its
1025 58| information, as there has been exaggeration and self-will in its researches.~
1026 10| of what use is it, in an examination of the soul of man, to borrow
1027 9 | all her communications are examined with the most scrupulous
1028 52| a crown of gold for the excellence of his historical writings;
1029 44| difficulty dream after some excessive alarm. What indeed would
1030 45| as no slight or trifling excitements of the soul, which we have
1031 38| the shame which it still excites, and drives man out of the
1032 48| have nothing to do with exciting ecstasy, but will rather
1033 41| testimony to God (its author) in exclamations such as: Good God! God knows!
1034 35| over to the angel who is to execute the sentence, and he commit
1035 58| God! Moreover, the soul executes not all its operations with
1036 33| in criminals destined to execution, or reduced to hard work
1037 46| be the only thing to be exempted from the fortune which is
1038 18| but is the soul itself exercised in respiration; although
1039 45| gesticulating the entire course and exertion of their respective employments:
1040 54| accumulates, settles, and exhales, and where every separate
1041 1 | the way of jollity; but it exhausts it in every kind of bitter
1042 56| away. We know that Homer exhibited more than a poetic licence
1043 51| pleases, yet in his Republic exhibits to us the corpse of an unburied
1044 13| it is the soul which He exhorts and counsels, to turn the
1045 30| as nomade tribes, or as exiles, or as conquerors--as the
1046 20| discordances ought to have existed in him as the fountainhead,
1047 21| the nature of all other existences which are born and created
1048 16| rational element only as existing in the soul of God Himself,
1049 57| facts, when in cases of exorcism (the evil spirit) affirms
1050 20| development varies: some open and expand in a healthy and perfect
1051 57| view, there is no other expedient of imposture ever resorted
1052 45| natural process; nor does it expel mental function--it withdraws
1053 52| strange and alien means, expelling the soul by a method all
1054 1 | demons does it introduce, but expels the old ones; it corrupts
1055 20| the sciences, the arts, by experimental knowledge, business habits,
1056 33| grace from the hands of most expert practitioners--is buried
1057 43| function, has the dialectical experts calling in question the
1058 25| digression, in order that I may explain how all souls are derived
1059 48| especially of penetrating and explaining the sense of dreams. For
1060 31| shrank from the military exploits of which Greece was then
1061 56| corpse of a friend, only expose himself, along with the
1062 45| ECSTASY.~We are bound to expound at this point what is the
1063 29| contrariety as those which are expounded by him to illustrate his
1064 1 | show us no more powerful expounder of the soul than the Author
1065 15| them as were accounted the expounders of sacred truths; in accordance,
1066 46| untransparent. Aristotle, while expressing his opinion that dreams
1067 11| XI. SPIRIT A TERM EXPRESSIVE OF AN OPERATION OF THE SOUL,
1068 2 | them for pre-eminence! For extending their several researches
1069 16| sin proceeds; and it is extraneous to God, to whom also the
1070 35| allegory of the Lord which is extremely clear and simple in its
1071 53| middle is prolonged to the extremes; and the remnants cohere
1072 34| glorious affair than her extrication from the brothel. There
1073 51| scanty in proportion to the exuberance of the brain. You have medical
1074 33| to its own kindred race--exulting in the face of human judgments,
1075 15| in the space between the eyebrows, as Strato the physician
1076 44| malady as that which the fable has fastened upon Epimenides,
1077 23| the stories and Milesian fables of their own AEons. I am
1078 17| fact of the truly parallel fabric of yonder porch or arcade,
1079 35| transmigration philosophy has fabricated this story. Carpocrates
1080 28| respects, for the purpose of fabricating such an opinion as this,
1081 10| theories, and away with the fabrications of heresy! Some maintain
1082 2 | with straining after that facility of language which is practised
1083 53| assumed to have himself failed, when his horses, through
1084 6 | that in fact it is, when failing and weak, actually refreshed
1085 27| And do we not experience a faintness and prostration along with
1086 17| them, (you reproach) as fallacious and treacherous tyrants!
1087 6 | Hence (the story of) Thales falling into the well. It very commonly,
1088 40| like that of a servant or familiar friend--animated and human
1089 5 | too, will have it that family likeness passes from parents
1090 30| very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes
1091 46| to laugh at the man who fancied that he was going to persuade
1092 23| sometimes, when it suits their fancy, even give them the superiority--
1093 32| on thorns, and the wild fare of bitter leaves, and beasts
1094 30| commerce; most pleasant farms have obliterated all traces
1095 17| in the direction of its farthest distance. So the sky blends
1096 56| in Hades. (Not quite so fast, is my answer.) I must compel
1097 44| that which the fable has fastened upon Epimenides, who slept
1098 28| the several births (of the fathers of mankind) according to
1099 52| apply the term natural to faults and circumstances which
1100 56| the injury to which the faulty delay could not possibly
1101 9 | whose lot it has been to be favoured with sundry gifts of revelation,
1102 52| billow to shatter them, with favouring gale, in gliding course,
1103 30| nor their rocky shores feared; everywhere are houses,
1104 33| perpetual ignorance of it, daily fearing that for which she yet daily
1105 37| accrue, according to the feasibility in the material which makes
1106 32| wool, and softness in a feather: their natural qualities
1107 33| at will, on its splendid feathers; Jut then its wings do not
1108 10| can find, it must needs be fed and sustained by some food
1109 51| immortality, on which they have so feeble a hold through not being
1110 8 | perception, others another; some feeding on one kind of aliment,
1111 56| well as to moderate the feelings of grief which their memory
1112 7 | nor would the Scripture feign a statement about the limbs
1113 28| and believe with us. He feigns death, he conceals himself
1114 24| divinity and an attenuated felicity, as the breath (of God),
1115 30| when the hatchet has once felled large masses of men, the
1116 50| Menander? He is a comical fellow, I ween. But why (was such
1117 55| her passion saw only her fellow-martyrs there, in the revelation
1118 18| absent, but because it is a fellow-sufferer (with the soul) at the time.
1119 5 | Chrysippus also joins hands in fellowship with Cleanthes when he lays
1120 24| no doubt, will forget his ferocity, if surrounded by the softening
1121 27| appointed seed-plot, they fertilize with their combined vigour
1122 55| counsels, it is not in gentle fevers and on soft beds, but in
1123 30| never have become more nor fewer than they who disappeared (
1124 34| embodying any such extravagant fiction as that the souls of human
1125 25| this view of his is merely fictitious. Even the medical profession
1126 34| withdraw her from the stews. Fie on you, Simon, to be so
1127 23| super-celestial abodes by a fiery angel, Israel's God; and
1128 44| Epimenides, who slept on some fifty years or so. Suetonius,
1129 38| and female, and wears the fig-tree apron to cover the shame
1130 45| employments: there is the fight, there is the struggle;
1131 56| here; he had in view the fights of the dead. Proportioned,
1132 21| fruit; and nobody gathers figs of thorns, nor grapes of
1133 9 | being indissoluble, it is figureless: for if, on the contrary,
1134 39| them, still bound with the fillets that have been wreathed
1135 6 | soul in the amplest manner, filling four volumes with his dissertations,
1136 17| of the open space which fills up the interval between
1137 54| the earth, where all the filth of the world accumulates,
1138 34| body to body, she, in her final disgrace, turned out a viler
1139 57| DEAD.~It is either a very fine thing to be detained in
1140 32| animals which are opposed to fire--water-snakes, lizards, salamanders,
1141 10| appears) from the ministry of fires. So likewise will there
1142 10| their operations. How much firmer ground have you for believing
1143 32| if it is submerged in a fish-pond,--(how, I say, shall a soul
1144 28| and Euphorbus, and the fisherman Pyrrhus, and Hermotimus,
1145 3 | mistake, too, in sending forth fishermen to preach, rather than the
1146 24| should the queen offer him fishes or cakes, he will wish for
1147 32| worms, and most of the fishy tribes. Then opposed to
1148 32| into animals, which are not fitted for its reception, either
1149 38| bodily members; and (we fix on this age) not because,
1150 9 | densifying process, there arose a fixing of the soul's corporeity;
1151 7 | in torment, punished in flames, suffering excruciating
1152 44| warning or of alarm, as by a flash of lightning, or by a sudden
1153 49| to God, since the gospel flashes its glorious light through
1154 17| smell, and the wine more flat to the taste, and the water
1155 11| God. He, to be sure, goes flatly against the testimony of
1156 47| just spoken, they assume a flattering and captivating style, they
1157 33| has killed; and be itself flayed, since it has fleeced others;
1158 33| itself flayed, since it has fleeced others; and be itself used
1159 25| formed with a nicely-adjusted flexible frame for opening the uterus
1160 44| of the soul as admits of flights away from the body without
1161 15| nor with Moschion, that it floats about through the whole
1162 30| fields have subdued forests; flocks and herds have expelled
1163 28| catabolic spirits, which floor their victims; and the paredral
1164 27| diverse from each other, flow forth simultaneously in
1165 51| parents, who in the very flower of her age and beauty slept
1166 27| discharged, deriving its fluidity from the body, and its warmth
1167 33| his side. After that he is flung into the fire, that his
1168 35| to be its "adversary" and foe? I suppose it must be that
1169 46| But the Stoics are very fond of saying that God, in His
1170 19| tendrils catch, it will fondly cling to, and embrace with
1171 50| ween. But why (was such a font) so seldom in request, so
1172 25| or would even loathe your food--all on his account; and
1173 32| seeing that he was such a fool; or a cameleon, for his
1174 18| virgins: making the five foolish virgins to symbolize the
1175 57| losing the living) God. God forbid, however, that we should
1176 32| human soul, (the question is forced upon us,) what it will do
1177 19| destiny, which it has in its foreseeing instinct thoroughly been
1178 46| still a little boy, was foreseen by his nurse. The swan from
1179 30| cultivated fields have subdued forests; flocks and herds have expelled
1180 58| you think this state is a foretaste of judgment, or its actual
1181 9 | the apostle most assuredly foretold that there were to be "spiritual
1182 24| who is perhaps the most forgetful of all creatures, the knowledge
1183 24| that the soul subsequently forgets, and then afterwards again
1184 24| SELF-EXISTENT, YET CAPABLE OF FORGETTING WHAT PASSED IN A PREVIOUS
1185 46| to any other person. Pray forgive me for laughing. Epicharmus,
1186 52| distinguished in a twofold form--the ordinary and the extraordinary.
1187 36| method of the first two formations, when the male was moulded
1188 23| before--he elaborated his new formula, <greek>maqhseis</greek> <
1189 35| who was a magician and a fornicator like yourself, only he had
1190 9 | evidence on every point is forthcoming for your conviction? Since,
1191 23| The hive of Valen-tinus fortifies the soul with the germ of
1192 10| have the ability to move forward without feet, as serpents,
1193 1 | from a desire to break the foul hands of Anytus and Melitus,
1194 33| wearied in labourers, or foully disgraced in the unclean;
1195 46| which with their original foundations, rites, and historians,
1196 20| have existed in him as the fountainhead, and thence to have descended
1197 38| before-mentioned age (of fourteen years) sex is suffused and
1198 38| full growth at about the fourteenth year of life, speaking generally,--
1199 51| operation, is not death. If any fraction of the soul remain, it makes
1200 53| VITALITY; NEVER PARTIALLY OR FRACTIONALLY WITHDRAWN FROM THE BODY.~
1201 53| this process severed in fractions: it is slowly drawn out;
1202 17| wife's mother; or that the fragrance of the ointment which He
1203 9 | however, in some other manner frames for the soul an effigy of
1204 1 | of the school of heaven frankly and without reserve denies
1205 57| compel one's belief of the fraudulence of every incorporeal apparition
1206 28| the injury of his health, fraudulently wasting his life, and torturing
1207 2 | the urgent necessity of freeing, on the one hand, the sentiments
1208 53| whilst from the loftier and freer position in which it is
1209 24| little children, with their fresh, unworn souls, not yet immersed
1210 40| of a servant or familiar friend--animated and human beings;
1211 8 | Empedocles' (theory of) friendship and enmity. Thus, then,
1212 6 | INCORPOREALITY, OPPOSED, PERHAPS FRIVOLOUSLY.~These conclusions the Platonists
1213 46| from the Molossi to the frontiers of Macedon. The Romans,
1214 25| into being amidst nipping frosts; for as the substance is,
1215 35| tree is known by its bad fruit--in other words, that the
1216 1 | assumption such as was wanted to frustrate the wrong (they had inflicted
1217 32| dispositions, as well as duties to fulfil, likings, dislikes, vices,
1218 35| he had laid aside, but of fulfilling prophecy,--really and truly
1219 1 | hatred in proportion to its fulness: so that it tastes death
1220 45| nor does it expel mental function--it withdraws it for a time.
1221 13| considered as the natural functionary of the superior substance.
1222 30| compensation? Indeed, this furlough of our present life would
1223 25| time born, warm from the furnace of the womb, and then released
1224 27| gratification of it; the soul furnishes the instigation, the flesh
1225 6 | animate and inanimate bodies? Furthermore, since it is characteristic
1226 23| man was made by angels. A futile, imperfect creation at first,
1227 25| legion in number, as in the Gadarene. Now one soul is naturally
1228 52| shatter them, with favouring gale, in gliding course, with
1229 17| the marriage of (Cana in) Galilee; true and real also was
1230 53| the matter, such as the gall and the blood; of the region,
1231 57| and the Celts, for the game purpose, stay away all night
1232 52| conquered in the Olympic games; or for glory, like the
1233 38| than. "Of every tree of the garden" He says, "ye shall freely
1234 46| Homer has assigned two gates to dreams,--the horny one
1235 43| physicians banish beyond the gateway of nature everything which
1236 21| tree good fruit; and nobody gathers figs of thorns, nor grapes
1237 9 | height--by which philosophers gauge al bodies. What now remains
1238 36| of which a community of gender is secured to them; so that
1239 18| both their AEons and their genealogies. Thus, too, do they divide
1240 27| whence should spring the generating fluid? From the breath of
1241 32| after being nourished with generous and delicate as well as
1242 39| that to all persons their genii are assigned, which is only
1243 2 | enjoyed the full scope of her genius; while Medicine, on the
1244 25| and his own calling. These gentlemen, I suppose, were too modest
1245 41| that original, divine, and genuine good, which is its proper
1246 31| of Italy, to the study of geometry, and astrology, and music--
1247 25| treasure, then beyond the German and the Scythian tribes,
1248 37| flesh, without impairing the germinal basis of the substance,
1249 20| dispositions;" that is, from the germs which are implanted and
1250 37| most critical months of gestation; and Partula, to manage
1251 45| without his team, but still gesticulating the entire course and exertion
1252 35| you must never think of getting back any of the things which
1253 56| interment of the body--and the gist of the injury lies in the
1254 1 | Christ had not yet been given--(that power) which alone
1255 6 | it is itself rather the giver of motion to the body. It
1256 11| became soul." And again: "He giveth breath unto the people that
1257 18| now, are there not here gleams of the heretical principles
1258 58| certain anticipation either of gloom or of glory? You reply:
1259 1 | Meanwhile, in the still gloomier prison of the world amongst
1260 2 | one whit less; so that the gloomy Heraclitus was quite right,
1261 10| their pupils. Moths also gnaw and eat: demonstrate to
1262 32| it has to migrate into a goat or into a quail?--nay, it
1263 15| Asclepiades may go in quest of his goats bleating without a heart,
1264 47| the realities. But from God--who has promised, indeed, "
1265 47| VARIOUSLY CLASSIFIED. SOME ARE GOD-SENT, AS THE DREAMS OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR;
1266 37| the womb; as well as (the goddesses) Nona and Decima, called
1267 2 | supposed to be (I will not say godlike, but) actually gods: as,
1268 46| as he was dreaming, the golden crown, which had been lost
1269 41| Good God! God knows! and Good-bye! Just as no soul is without
1270 1 | but instructs them in all goodness and moderation; and so it
1271 7 | DEMONSTRATED OUT OF THE GOSPELS.~So far as the philosophers
1272 23| the principalities that govern this world. Apelles tells
1273 30| inhabitants, and settled government, and civilised life. What
1274 19| swelling of their buds, and the graceful shedding of their blossom,
1275 33| ornaments of his fame to the graces of his tail! But never mind!
1276 43| the body alone, that sleep graciously bestows a cessation from
1277 37| implanted in its being, is gradually developed along with the
1278 21| unless the better nature be grafted into it; nor will a good
1279 19| course for the inoculation of grafts, and the formation of leaves,
1280 28| or so), and even than his grandchildren, is Moses; and he is certainly
1281 38| the flood He enlarged the grant: "Every moving thing that
1282 18| indissolubly connected. Granted now that the understanding
1283 21| gathers figs of thorns, nor grapes of brambles." If so, then "
1284 19| attempts from the very first to grasp, objects above them, and
1285 9 | offer itself to be even grasped by the hand, soft and transparent
1286 34| salvation of man, in order to gratify his spleen by liberating
1287 56| responsibilities in the graver years between ripe manhood
1288 25| ladies in childbirth so greatly need, when a breath of cold
1289 12| also, or animus, which the Greeks designate NO<greek>US</greek>,
1290 38| for you; behold, as the green herb have I given you all
1291 43| it labours, it plays, it grieves, it rejoices, it follows
1292 57| and not unfairly, if one grounds his faith on this principle,
1293 18| visible things which are grovelling and temporary, and which
1294 46| marriage, he saw a vine growing out from the same part of
1295 20| national peculiarities has grown by this time into proverbial
1296 25| and warns us to be on our guard about it), not, (as he had
1297 18| uses the senses for its own guidance, and authority, and mainstay;
1298 44| suppose) to itself. the guilt of the murder. However the
1299 58| to be still well with the guilty even there, and not well
1300 33| contemptible as punishments, dis- gusting as rewards; such as the
1301 44| continual recurrence, as if habitual to its state and constitution.
1302 37| creation was completed and hallowed. Human nativity has sometimes
1303 6 | the hellebore. Some such hallucination, I take it, must have occurred
1304 18| faculties, such as Plato has handed it over to the heretics,
1305 47| that His servants and His handmaids should see visions as well
1306 33| To be sure, it must be a handsome gain for good men to be
1307 56| an infant that dies yet hanging on the breast; or it may
1308 17| with the sea the sky which hangs at so great a height above
1309 34| the Father in Samaria. O hapless Helen, what a hard fate
1310 7 | imploring from the finger of a happier soul, for his tongue, the
1311 2 | in confusion, that some harbour is stumbled on (by the labouring
1312 8 | the universe consists of harmonious oppositions, according to
1313 14| combinations for their harmony, and the array of its pipes;
1314 33| holocausts, and sacks, and harpoons, and precipices--who would
1315 19| your volition. It longs and hastens to be secure. Take also
1316 30| race; and yet, when the hatchet has once felled large masses
1317 1 | incurs indeed the greater hatred in proportion to its fulness:
1318 28| are ever at their side to haunt them; and the pythonic spirits,
1319 51| prayer. Nor would the corpse hav been simply content to have
1320 28| only shameful, but also hazardous. Consider it, you that are
1321 24| condition, of the state of man's health--by the influences of the
1322 43| contrary to what is vital healthful, and helpful to nature;
1323 18| which sees, the mind that hears--all else is blind and deaf."
1324 15| rather who are alive in a heartless and brainless state.~
1325 55| difference is there between heathens and Christians, if the same
1326 23| formerly lived with God in the heavens above, sharing His ideas
1327 37| perfect accordance with an hebdomad sevenfold number, as an
1328 26| he seized his brother's heel; and was still warm with
1329 9 | length, and breadth and height--by which philosophers gauge
1330 56| will love the undutiful heir, by whose means it still
1331 6 | story of) Chrysippus and the hellebore. Some such hallucination,
1332 43| is vital healthful, and helpful to nature; for those maladies
1333 1 | returned (from Delos), the hemlock draft to which he had been
1334 50| the cause of our departure hence--that is, the appointment
1335 38| you; behold, as the green herb have I given you all these
1336 17| Ulysses in the slaughtered herd; Athamas and Agave descry
1337 30| subdued forests; flocks and herds have expelled wild beasts;
1338 | hereby
1339 46| of Mopsus in Cilicia, of Hermione in Macedon, of Pasiphae
1340 46| entire literature of dreams, Hermippus of Berytus in five portly
1341 46| Dionysius of Rhodes, and Hermippus--the entire literature of
1342 58| beasts are a glory to young heroes, as on Cyrus were the scars
1343 55| How is it that the most heroic martyr Perpetua on the day
1344 50| accorded to the great Medea herself--over a human being at any
1345 57| the very elect." He hardly hesitated on the before-mentioned
1346 35| therefore, into any kind of heterogeneous bodies, he thought by all
1347 46| THEM, THOUGH GENERALLY MOST HIGHLY VALUED. INSTANCES OF DREAMS.~
1348 15| several authorities against him--and philosophers too--Plato,
1349 46| that a certain woman of Himera beheld in a dream Dionysius'
1350 33| even while yet alive; nay, hindered from too easily dying, by
1351 20| of the health. Stoutness hinders knowledge, but a spare form
1352 18| knowledge? Will the body be a hindrance to it or not, if one shall
1353 5 | manifest bodily substances, as Hipparchus and Heraclitus (do) out
1354 5 | Heraclitus (do) out of fire; as Hippon and Thales (do) out of water;
1355 46| foundations, rites, and historians, together with the entire
1356 52| for the excellence of his historical writings; or in a dream,
1357 30| masses of men, the world has hitherto never once been alarmed
1358 23| within our sinful flesh. The hive of Valen-tinus fortifies
1359 56| profit, turn up the soil with hoe and plough, go to sea, bring
1360 44| vulgar belief so readily holds sleep to be the separation
1361 44| body like a person on a holiday trip. His wife betrayed
1362 58| Paraclete has also pressed home on our attention in most
1363 56| LVI. REFUTATION OF THE HOMERIC VIEW OF THE SOUL'S DETENTION
1364 46| can doubt that our very homes lie open to these diabolical
1365 33| inflicted among men upon the homicide is really as great as that
1366 15| Orpheus or Empedocles:~"Namque homini sanguis circumcordialis
1367 47| actual grace of God, as being honest, holy, prophetic, inspired,
1368 6 | condition of the soul with the honey-water of Plato's subtle eloquence,
1369 31| have been Nestor, from his honeyed eloquence?~
1370 57| and had passed away by an honourable death, and had even been
1371 25| being a blunted or covered hook, wherewith the entire foetus
1372 33| for which she yet daily hopes.~
1373 46| two gates to dreams,--the horny one of truth, the ivory
1374 39| last day the fates of the horoscope are invoked; and then the
1375 33| against their nature for their horrible office the criminal who
1376 28| frame of his body to the horrid appearance of a dead old
1377 53| himself failed, when his horses, through fatigue, withdraw
1378 1 | breath of which the whole host of demons is scattered!
1379 43| it confine to the still hours of sleep the nature of its
1380 38| of being accommodated and housed, since he could not receive
1381 30| shores feared; everywhere are houses, and inhabitants, and settled
1382 3 | there had a taste of its huckstering wiseacres and talkers. In
1383 10| jaw-teeth. Then, again, gnats hum and buzz, nor even in the
1384 35| well as of his unchanged humanity. How, therefore could John
1385 18| lofty ones contrasted with humble--not in the faculties of
1386 25| whose wits are not dull and humdrum. The minds of men, too,
1387 48| in order to please God by humiliation, and not for the purpose
1388 28| good deal (by some nine hundred years or so), and even than
1389 28| years underground, amidst hunger, idleness, and darkness--
1390 24| forget to eat when he is hungry; or to drink when he is
1391 15| bleating without a heart, and hunt his flies without their
1392 24| require the ape; and should no hunting-spear be presented against him,
1393 50| for the most pan spring hurriedly into existence, from examples
1394 19| without waiting for the husbandman's training, without an espalier,
1395 32| deliberately on, I will not say husks, but even on thorns, and
1396 39| been wreathed before the idols, declare their offspring
1397 9 | Thunder-stones,"indeed, are not of igne-ous substance, because they
1398 40| yet the flesh has not such ignominy on its own account. For
1399 2 | II. THE CHRISTIAN HAS SURE
1400 3 | III. THE SOUL'S ORIGIN DEFINED
1401 33| cast to the wild beasts the ill-fated victims whom it once slew
1402 58| the soul alone tortured by ill-temper, and anger, and fatigue,
1403 32| kites, lewd persons dogs, ill-tempered ones panthers, good men
1404 25| both body and soul from an illicit or debased concubinage,
1405 46| battle of Philippi through illness, and thereby escaped the
1406 56| toil and labour, undergo illnesses, and whatever casualties
1407 53| happens that the light which illumines objects comes in upon the
1408 14| is not remote from (the illustration) of Strato, and AEnesidemus,
1409 46| but that a son of very illustrious character was portended.
1410 46| dream that Baraliris the Illyrian stretched his dominion from
1411 38| house. (Now, applying this imagery to the soul,) if it be not
1412 23| heretics. For in the Phoedo he imagines that souls wander from this
1413 32| and under water, and never imbibe air--things of which you
1414 26| born. Now if he actually imbibed life, and received his soul,
1415 31| uniform age? For all men are imbued with an infant soul at their
1416 27| the normal state, which is immodest and unchaste: the normal
1417 43| For every natural state is impaired either by defect or by excess,
1418 37| with the flesh, without impairing the germinal basis of the
1419 32| be, that even in these (impalpable) classes I should find such
1420 47| profane, since God, with grand impartiality, "sends His showers and
1421 37| of all the others, and as imparting perfection to the human
1422 25| the orifice of the womb he impedes parturition, and kills his
1423 12| of thus appearing to be impelled by the mind, as if it were
1424 7 | excruciating thirst, and imploring from the finger of a happier
1425 46| of an unmeaning or empty import lay under that seal, but
1426 25| was convinced, although he imported their soul into infants
1427 58| the moment from the body's importunate society? I am mistaken if
1428 28| because he has played the impostor in matters which might be
1429 36| difference in the time of the impregnations, so that either the flesh
1430 36| that either the flesh would impress its sex upon the soul, or
1431 9 | conviction which divine grace impresses on us by revelation. For,
1432 43| time the need it has of impressing on some body its activity
1433 46| became a father, had seen imprinted on the pudenda of his consort
1434 47| obscure, and wanton, and impure. And no wonder that the
1435 54| renders denser still the impurities of the seething mass.~
1436 54| great is the privilege which impurity obtains at the hands of
1437 24| natural to him will remain in-eradicably fixed in him,--but this
1438 20| ignorance, idle habits, inactivity, lust, inexperience, listlessness,
1439 24| the time which is as yet inadmissible in the hypothesis? Take,
1440 45| very beginning sleep was inaugurated by ecstasy: "And God sent
1441 25| nativity) likewise belongs the inbreathing of the soul, whatever that
1442 38| upon sins and unnatural incentives to delinquency; for its
1443 19| tenacity and force by its own inclination than by your volition. It
1444 21| whatsoever direction it turns, it inclines of its own nature. Now,
1445 5 | called a body which rather includes and embraces bodily substances;--
1446 32| instances to this criterion of incongruity, and so save us from lingering
1447 34| away which has furnished no inconsiderable support to our heretics.
1448 34| seeking her out, and so inconstant in ransoming her! How different
1449 32| dwell on them longer will inconvenience us,) lest we should be obliged
1450 24| immortal, incorruptible, incorpo-real-since he believed God to be the
1451 12| another passage he actually incorporates it with the soul. This (
1452 6 | contributing nothing to increase its bulk, but only to enhance
1453 37| to suppose that the soul increases in substance, lest it should
1454 2 | cast? It is, indeed, not incredible that any man who is in quest
1455 33| that they may more tardily incur it. How well, (forsooth),
1456 24| lost memory, if it once incurred the loss, would be powerful
1457 1 | cause of that truth which incurs indeed the greater hatred
1458 22| occasional gift of divination, independently of that endowment of prophecy
1459 5 | Peripatetics (do) out of a certain indescribable quintessence, if that may
1460 31| only, as if Scythians and Indians had no philosophers--how
1461 8 | works of the same class indicate the greatness of the Creator,
1462 46| Cal-listhenes that it was from the indication of a dream that Baraliris
1463 48| the stomach, and produce indigestion. But the three brethren,
1464 54| destination to all the souls, indiscriminately, of even all the philosophers,
1465 51| indivisible process, accruing indivisibly to the soul, not indeed
1466 9 | to believe this, even if indubitable evidence on every point
1467 32| exposed to peril. And this induces me to ask another question:
1468 33| is shown to his bones, no indulgence to his ashes, which must
1469 18| unmixed serenity when he indulges in contemplation for the
1470 17| so many arts, so many industrious resources, so many pursuits,
1471 9 | we had discoursed in some ineffable way about the soul. After
1472 58| arranging of judgment, with the inevitable feeling of a trembling fear?
1473 20| habits, inactivity, lust, inexperience, listlessness, and vicious
1474 31| EXPOSURE OF TRANSMIGRATION, ITS INEXTRICABLE EMBARRASSMENT.~Again, if
1475 34| heretics. There is the (infamous) Simon of Samaria in the
1476 44| ever enters, because of the infamy of this wife. Now why this
1477 25| they give it, from its infanticide function, the name of <greek>
1478 49| delicate tenderness of their infantine body. The fact, however,
1479 2 | poisons with which they have infected it; and thus, if we regard
1480 18| which a thing exists is inferior to the thing itself; and
1481 10| capacity for forming such infinitesimal corpuscles, you can still
1482 24| long lapse of time at all influential over it. If time is a cause
1483 18| and as Plato too might inform our heretics: "The things
1484 25| vitiation of seed should infuse a soil into both body and
1485 21| him afterwards, when God infused into him the ecstasy, or
1486 48| it that it all amounts to ingenious conjecture rather than certain
1487 29| points, and labours with much ingenuity to distinguish different
1488 17| that we might understand, inhabit, dispense, and enjoy them, (
1489 38| the soul is the temporary inhabitant of the flesh. The desire,
1490 30| everywhere are houses, and inhabitants, and settled government,
1491 25| externally to the womb, is inhaled when the new-born infant
1492 43| those maladies which are inimical to sleep--maladies of the
1493 43| the image of death, you initiate faith, you nourish hope,
1494 37| that the ten months rather initiated man into the ten commandments;
1495 12| imagined the mind to be the initiating principle of all things,
1496 46| only effect of which was to injure their victims the more they
1497 5 | its pain, whenever it is injured by bruises, and wounds,
1498 19| they grow and avoid what injures them! You can see that their
1499 25| himself thus peremptorily the injuries of his mother! Now, whenever
1500 58| be the highest possible injustice, even in Hades, if all were
1501 58| nor should there be any inkling beforehand of the award