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1502 56| condition in life were pure and innocent?~
1503 19| possess in due course for the inoculation of grafts, and the formation
1504 21| this, it remains for us to inquire whether, as being called
1505 2 | obscured the researches of the inquirers about the soul, and wearied
1506 50| and not only so, but the insane opinion of the Samaritan
1507 17| afflicted with madness or insanity, mistake one object for
1508 18| point is to prevent the insidious ascription of a superiority
1509 19| little shrub) with its own insignificant destiny, which it has in
1510 46| search after the true God, by insinuating into their minds ideas of
1511 17| further, it may well be insisted on that there is a something
1512 17| What mean you, then, O most insolent Academy? You overthrow the
1513 57| great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible,
1514 28| the knowledge of it by an inspection which he had bribed the
1515 50| immortal, incorruptible and instantaneously invested with resurrection-life.
1516 26| the Lord, (for) Christ had instigated her within. The mothers
1517 40| beaten with more stripes who instigates and orders the crime, whilst
1518 33| in vain," and which is an institute of religion when it severely
1519 47| holy, prophetic, inspired, instructive, inviting to virtue, the
1520 24| life, I apprehend, will be insufficient to efface the memory of
1521 34| account exposed to every insult, to prevent her leaving
1522 21| of evil must have been an integral part of his constitution),
1523 19| the way of introducing the intellect--and the mind also--at a
1524 37| in magnitude, the soul in intelligence--the flesh in material condition,
1525 22| simple in its substance, intelligent in its own nature, developing
1526 47| the possibility of being intelligibly related, will have to be
1527 47| creates for itself from an intense application to special circumstances.
1528 19| promote vitality, without any intention of acquiring knowledge also,
1529 5 | be) corporeal from this inter-communion of susceptibility. Chrysippus
1530 41| As therefore light, when intercepted by an opaque body, still
1531 56| to the soul from a tardy interment of the body--and the gist
1532 46| Lampsacus. Now they who interpreted these visions did not deceive
1533 43| indigence; Aristotle as the interruption of the heat around the heart.
1534 48| nor so as to wrench his intestines, as if their cavity were
1535 53| such a purport as seems to intimate that the soul escapes by
1536 25| the sex itself which is so intimately concerned. Give us your
1537 46| the tragic actor, through intimations in his sleep from Ajax himself,
1538 50| vinous quality of the stream intoxicates people who drink of the
1539 53| its clear, and pure, and intrinsic light; and then finds itself
1540 19| order to prepare the way of introducing the intellect--and the mind
1541 3 | I shall regard it as my introduction to the other branches of
1542 42| THE MIRROR OF DEATH, AS INTRODUCTORY TO THE CONSIDERATION OF
1543 52| ARISING FROM SIN. SIN AN INTRUSION UPON NATURE AS GOD CREATED
1544 24| of an effect which is an invariable one. There are likewise,
1545 16| indignation in Him, by which He inveighed against the scribes and
1546 57| magic rings again, that inventor of all these odd opinions--
1547 33| in what animal will you invest that righteous hero AEacus?
1548 50| incorruptible and instantaneously invested with resurrection-life.
1549 10| of persons, in order to investigate the secrets of nature, who
1550 3 | nothing further need be investigated or advanced by us. It has
1551 1 | Cebeses and Phaedos, in every investigation concerning (man's) soul,
1552 50| end of all questions and investigations. According to the general
1553 10| you curious and elaborate investigator of these mysteries, have
1554 39| their birth, at which he is invited to be present in all those
1555 47| inspired, instructive, inviting to virtue, the bountiful
1556 39| for in parturition they invoke the aid of Lucina and Diana;
1557 16| he censures an irrational irascibility, such as proceeds not from
1558 26| would say,) who had been irregularly conceived. However, even
1559 24| body, was of course not irrespective of time. Is it, indeed,
1560 33| very last, in an eternal irrevocable sentence, both of punishment
1561 30| No longer are (savage) islands dreaded, nor their rocky
1562 23| abodes by a fiery angel, Israel's God; and ours, who then
1563 30| dead, afterwards the dead issued from the living, and then
1564 53| failure of its vehicle, not of itself--abandoning its work, but
1565 4 | IV. IN OPPOSITION TO PLATO,
1566 19| to be secure. Take also ivy-plants, never mind how young: I
1567 9 | IX. PARTICULARS OF THE ALLEGED
1568 50| the house of the God of Jacob," who demands of His saints
1569 17| bile, to those who have the jaundice. Is it their taste which
1570 10| mandibles, reveal their jaw-teeth. Then, again, gnats hum
1571 15| condition of the soul is put in jeopardy. Indeed, those men who say
1572 26| God which was spoken to Jeremiah, "Before I formed thee in
1573 51| beauty slept peacefully (in Jesus), after a singularly happy
1574 35| Pythagorean sense that the Jews approached John with the
1575 52| moment when one might live a jocund life in joy and honour,
1576 17| end; and because it will join with the sea the sky which
1577 5 | susceptibility. Chrysippus also joins hands in fellowship with
1578 1 | cup almost in the way of jollity; but it exhausts it in every
1579 3 | lies in its springing from Judaea rather than from Greece.
1580 11| words, into an apostate. Judas likewise was for a long
1581 53| men, who are the proper judges of the incidents which appertain
1582 32| by the very fact of your judging that a man resembles a beast,
1583 46| station, who was also plain Julius Octavius, and personally
1584 39| table is spread in honour of Juno; on the last day the fates
1585 46| the sun and the bath of Jupiter. So likewise in sleep revelations
1586 32| some credible reason to justify such a transformation as
1587 1 | Would you then wish me justly condemned? It is therefore
1588 33| on its splendid feathers; Jut then its wings do not make
1589 25| of men, too, would grow keener by reason of the cold, if
1590 55| instructed you. The sole key to unlock Paradise is your
1591 25| impedes parturition, and kills his mother, if he is not
1592 33| after returning to its own kindred race--exulting in the face
1593 11| which is come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the
1594 17| capacity for intelligence and knowledge--nay, an ability to form
1595 50| L. THE ABSURD OPINION OF EPICURUS
1596 13| not so many minds; the labourer, too, in his work, and the
1597 33| fatigued and wearied in labourers, or foully disgraced in
1598 2 | harbour is stumbled on (by the labouring ship) by some happy chance;
1599 19| that, leaning on it, and lacing through it, it may so attain
1600 25| medical profession has not lacked its Hicesius, to prove a
1601 56| these are not by any means lacking persons to advance them
1602 46| Macedon, of Pasiphae in Laconia. Then, again, there are
1603 25| apparatus of heat which ladies in childbirth so greatly
1604 50| of the preservative, to lament her son. And for the matter
1605 34| blinded in revenge for his lampoons, and then restored to sight
1606 46| to Herodotus by Charon of Lampsacus. Now they who interpreted
1607 10| noisy tube, but the stinging lance of that mouth of theirs.
1608 43| motion; it travels over land and sea, it trades, it is
1609 53| work, but not its vigour--languishing in operation, but not in
1610 44| or perhaps that diseased languor which Soranus suggests in
1611 46| to Seleucus, his mother Laodice foresaw that he was destined
1612 10| small objects as in the very largest. If, however, you suppose
1613 33| which comes at the very last--nothing, moreover, is more
1614 17| long as its vigorous glance lasted. As for the (alleged cases
1615 51| concluded restored them to their lateral position. Then, again, there
1616 33| much greater joy, when it lauds him as the father of the
1617 46| person. Pray forgive me for laughing. Epicharmus, indeed, as
1618 33| out its vengeance, and too lavish in bestowing its favour.
1619 43| rejoices, it follows pursuits lawful and unlawful; it shows what
1620 14| these: he starts with two leading faculties of the soul,--
1621 37| extended by beating it into leaf, it becomes larger than
1622 19| spread over walls with their leafy web and woof rather than
1623 19| cling to some support, that, leaning on it, and lacing through
1624 26| with joy, (for) John had leaped in her womb; Mary magnifies
1625 28| seven years, during which he learns from his mother, who was
1626 | least
1627 34| every insult, to prevent her leaving them anywhere after her
1628 35| to the actual practice of legal prosecution); and lest this
1629 25| the Magdalene; and of a legion in number, as in the Gadarene.
1630 43| against labour, and for the legitimate enjoyment of which day departs,
1631 57| oracles by frequent and lengthened visits to the sepulchres
1632 2 | Phrygian Silenus, to whom Midas lent his long ears, when the
1633 46| disciple Plato. The boxer Leonymus is cured by Achilles in
1634 53| the appearance of being lessened to nothing; in some such
1635 20| reproaches the Moors for their levity, and the Dalmatians for
1636 32| rapacious persons become kites, lewd persons dogs, ill-tempered
1637 51| LI. DEATH ENTIRELY SEPARATES
1638 37| death, since it is already liable to the issues of both, although,
1639 20| apostle brands the Cretans as "liars." Very likely, too, something
1640 11| upon the soul by the secret liberality of her mother Sophia (Wisdom),
1641 53| matter, and by virtue of its liberty it recovers its divinity,
1642 24| some Queen Berenice, and lick her cheeks with his tongue.
1643 57| much more into a man of light--and that at last he will "
1644 46| VISIONS. EPICURUS THOUGHT LIGHTLY OF THEM, THOUGH GENERALLY
1645 52| LII. ALL KINDS OF DEATH A VIOLENCE
1646 53| LIII. THE ENTIRE SOUL BEING INDIVISIBLE
1647 18| the latter the images and likenesses of them. Well, now, are
1648 32| we have just quoted): it likens man to the beasts in nature,
1649 32| well as duties to fulfil, likings, dislikes, vices, desires,
1650 9 | the soul--such as form and limitation; and that triad of dimensions--
1651 46| this is not shut up nor limited within the boundaries of
1652 31| multitudes of Greece. But limiting ourselves merely to Greece,
1653 9 | inscribe on the soul the lineaments of corporeity, not simply
1654 26| last retire within our own lines and firmly hold my ground
1655 16| the first common to us and lions, and the second shared between
1656 13| more frequently on men's lips--the mind or the soul? Which
1657 35| narrow cell until you have liquidated all your debt against him.
1658 19| sounds, that of taste by liquids, that of smell by the air,
1659 20| inactivity, lust, inexperience, listlessness, and vicious pursuits. Then,
1660 57| supposed in the first and literal idolatry to become gods (
1661 54| LIV. WHITHER DOES THE SOUL RETIRE
1662 19| infancy were naturally so lively, if it had not mental power;
1663 38| Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; behold,
1664 25| mother! Now, whenever a livid hue and redness are incidents
1665 32| opposed to fire--water-snakes, lizards, salamanders, and what things
1666 30| enriched other districts with loans of even larger populations.
1667 25| injurious diet, or would even loathe your food--all on his account;
1668 53| last will the soul have to lodge, when it is bare and divested
1669 38| The desire, then, of the lodger will arise from the temporary
1670 53| loquacity; whilst from the loftier and freer position in which
1671 18| superiority in the objects--as of lofty ones contrasted with humble--
1672 19| it. Even the infancy of a log, then, may have an intellect (
1673 14| which they call <greek>logikon</greek>,--and ultimately
1674 34| whether on his shoulders or loins I cannot tell--cast an eye
1675 33| it once slew in woods and lonely roads. Now, if such be the
1676 19| that is not his own, and longing only for the arms to which
1677 19| than by your volition. It longs and hastens to be secure.
1678 3 | become acquainted with that loquacious city, and had there had
1679 53| anxious gaze, and a quickened loquacity; whilst from the loftier
1680 6 | nurture of philosopher's lore indeed, and yet are strong
1681 2 | of night, through blind luck alone, one finds access
1682 25| conceived, and pitied this most luckless infant state, which had
1683 5 | or coherence. Accordingly Lucretius says:~"Tangere enim et tangi
1684 17| a mirror by means of its luminosity, according as it is struck
1685 33| styles of an Apicius or a Lurco, is introduced to the tables
1686 34| rescues her: there is no lurking, no deceiving, no cavilling.
1687 28| again at his subterranean lurking-place, and believe his story,
1688 48| enervate the soul by the lusciosness of its fruits. Then, again,
1689 40| its works are condemned as lusting against the spirit, and
1690 37| shines out in developed lustre. Afterwards various modifications
1691 30| the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race; and yet,
1692 55| LV. THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF THE
1693 56| LVI. REFUTATION OF THE HOMERIC
1694 57| LVII. MAGIC AND SORCERY ONLY
1695 58| LVIII. CONCLUSION. POINTS POSTPONED.
1696 50| people who drink of the Lyncestis; how at Colophon the waters
1697 9 | offering up of prayers, m all these religious services
1698 45| accordingly not said to be mad, but to dream, in that state;
1699 25| spirits as in the case of the Magdalene; and of a legion in number,
1700 35| good use of it, who was a magician and a fornicator like yourself,
1701 57| serpents which emerged from the magicians' rods, certainly appeared
1702 26| leaped in her womb; Mary magnifies the Lord, (for) Christ had
1703 37| their nature--the flesh in magnitude, the soul in intelligence--
1704 18| guidance, and authority, and mainstay; and without the senses
1705 18| of God Himself. For Plato maintains that there are certain invisible
1706 33| justice, the solemnity, the majesty, and the dignity of this
1707 44| nightmare, or else some such malady as that which the fable
1708 6 | instance, benevolence and malignity—are discovered by the intellectual
1709 46| Oropus, of Amphi-lochus at Mallus, of Sarpedon in the Troad,
1710 11| afterwards turn him into another man--in other words, into an
1711 37| gestation; and Partula, to manage and direct parturition;
1712 10| demonstrate to me their mandibles, reveal their jaw-teeth.
1713 24| become, with his beautiful mane, the plaything of some Queen
1714 37| which makes it yield to the manipulation of the artisan, who yet
1715 54| souls of the wise, in the mansions above. Plato, it is true,
1716 23| his new formula, <greek>maqhseis</greek> <greek>anamnhseis</
1717 46| this kind. From a dream Marcus Tullius (Cicero) had learnt
1718 25| would he actually become marked,--whilst within you, and
1719 39| XXXIX. THE EVIL SPIRIT HAS MARRED THE PURITY OF THE SOUL FROM
1720 30| sown; rocks are planted; marshes are drained; and where once
1721 50| poet has commemorated the marshy Styx as preserving men from
1722 55| it that the most heroic martyr Perpetua on the day of her
1723 26| had leaped in her womb; Mary magnifies the Lord, (for)
1724 1 | opportune one for their (great) master--(to say nothing of the place),
1725 24| our heretics the fitting materials for their systems.~
1726 39| hope give his support to matrimony, which he had determined
1727 32| greek>metensw</greek>-<greek>matwsis</greek> or putting himself
1728 20| is the variety of men's maunders, it was not so in Adam,
1729 3 | by opposing to them the maxims of heavenly wisdom--that
1730 31| the common esculents at meals, while Pythagoras taught
1731 | meantime
1732 14| wonderful piece of organic mechanism by Archimedes,--I mean his
1733 50| not accorded to the great Medea herself--over a human being
1734 46| that Astyages, king of the Medes, saw in a dream issuing
1735 50| time of Christ a pool of medicinal virtue. It is well known
1736 2 | scope of her genius; while Medicine, on the other hand, has
1737 17| delicacy of the substance or medium which forms a mirror by
1738 30| life. What most frequently meets our view (and occasions
1739 20| himself in Tree Laws instructs Megillus and Clinias to be careful
1740 1 | foul hands of Anytus and Melitus, he, in the face of death
1741 32| fish." Why not rather a melon, seeing that he was such
1742 58| of Mutius Scoevola as he melts his right hand over the
1743 15| Herophilus thought; nor in the membranes thereof, as Strato and Erasistratus
1744 24| Lastly, who have better memories than little children, with
1745 33| after death! They are more mendacious than any human judgments;
1746 34| her! How different from Menelaus! As soon as he has lost
1747 33| reduced to hard work in menials, or fatigued and wearied
1748 23| equality with Christ (not to mention the apostles); and sometimes,
1749 33| judgment,--a point which Mercurius AEgyptius recognised, when
1750 9 | charismata, or gifts, we too have merited the attainment of the prophetic
1751 52| in gliding course, with merry crews, they founder amidst
1752 28| Himself declared their grand message. More ancient than Saturn
1753 15| nonentity. One Dicaearchus, a Messenian, and amongst the medical
1754 57| help he saw. But we are met with the objection, that
1755 37| the silver, which when the metal was any in block was Inherent
1756 32| end for ever to his <greek>metensw</greek>-<greek>matwsis</
1757 2 | Phrygian Silenus, to whom Midas lent his long ears, when
1758 53| series is its end, and the middle is prolonged to the extremes;
1759 39| birth with idolatry for the midwife, whilst the very wombs that
1760 28| profound disgust for the mighty sky--what reckless effort
1761 33| JUDICIAL RETRIBUTION OF THESE MIGRATIONS REFUTED WITH RAILLERY.~Forasmuch
1762 33| congratulate themselves on the mild labour of the mill and the
1763 25| of even adults, and the milder Soranus himself, who all
1764 23| objects, the stories and Milesian fables of their own AEons.
1765 33| on the mild labour of the mill and the water-wheel, when
1766 30| back to life after their millennial exile. But such a spectacle
1767 20| us, in the Timoeus, that Minerva, when preparing to found
1768 33| when they recollect the mines, and the convict-gangs,
1769 40| not soul. Now a cup may minister to a thirsty man; and yet,
1770 37| regulated by some power, which ministers herein to the will of God,
1771 10| apprehension by reason of their minuteness. You can more readily believe
1772 58| ANTICIPATING THEIR ULTIMATE MISERY OR BLISS.~All souls, therefore;
1773 17| such as we have indicated,) mislead our senses add (through
1774 9 | tuitions of philosophy, but misshapen by some contrary qualities.
1775 46| owing to a dream that even Mithridates took possession of Pontus;
1776 27| then both amalgamated and mixed their proper seminal rudiments
1777 58| death? would you have it mock us still more with uncertain
1778 43| actually formed into the model of that death which is general
1779 1 | them in all goodness and moderation; and so it bears the unjust
1780 25| gentlemen, I suppose, were too modest to come to terms with women
1781 27| run the risk of offending modesty even, in my desire to prove
1782 21| and created is subject to modification and change; so that if the
1783 37| lustre. Afterwards various modifications of shape accrue, according
1784 48| matter of distinguishing and modifying different sorts of food.
1785 27| is clay bug an excellent moisture, whence should spring the
1786 32| the darkness only, such as moles, bats, and owls. These examples (
1787 46| stretched his dominion from the Molossi to the frontiers of Macedon.
1788 53| departure into successive moments. Where, however, the death
1789 31| Or if it be a privilege monopolized by philosophers--and Greek
1790 32| against that still more monstrous presumption, that in the
1791 9 | ALLEGED COMMUNICATION TO A MONTANIST SISTER.~When we aver that
1792 44| eclipse of the sun or the moon--I should verily suppose
1793 20| Sallust reproaches the Moors for their levity, and the
1794 46| Trophonius in Boeotia, of Mopsus in Cilicia, of Hermione
1795 15| external force; nor with Moschion, that it floats about through
1796 | mostly
1797 8 | water becomes a heavy and motionless mass? How much truer and
1798 34| these from a (rebellious) motive very like her own, lest
1799 32| which is also fatigued if it mounts many steps, and is suffocated
1800 45| active owing to its perpetual movement, which again is a proof
1801 25| its position? Are these movements a joy to you, and a positive
1802 33| the bodies of asses and mules to be punished by drudgery
1803 31| recovering life out of all the multitudes of Greece. But limiting
1804 33| become of the soul of the murderer? (It will animate), I suppose,
1805 51| which is also inflicted upon murderers. The truth is, the soul
1806 2 | death; and Orpheus; and Musaeus; and Pherecydes, the master
1807 31| geometry, and astrology, and music--the very opposite to Euphorbus
1808 21| supposed to arise from the mutability of its accidental circumstances,
1809 58| instance, at the soul of Mutius Scoevola as he melts his
1810 18| even the poets are always muttering against us, that we can
1811 5 | have no such relation as mutual contact or coherence. Accordingly
1812 18| which differ ought to be mutually absent from each other,
1813 | myself
1814 18| Here, then, we have) the mystic original of the ideas of
1815 15| Orpheus or Empedocles:~"Namque homini sanguis circumcordialis
1816 7 | name of Lazarus in this narrative, if the circumstance is
1817 35| detained in its close and narrow cell until you have liquidated
1818 17| the arcade is sharpened or narrowed off towards its termination,
1819 57| purpose. For instance, the Nasamones consult private oracles
1820 19| may be compared with the nascent sprout of a tree) has been
1821 20| science. The subject of national peculiarities has grown
1822 32| we should be obliged to nave recourse to raillery and
1823 52| shattered with storms, if the navigation of the soul be overthrown.~
1824 56| all the fault rests on the nearest relations of the dead. They
1825 1 | which, you may be sure, neatly managed the business for
1826 52| proposed to it, and not by necessity--the result of an inflexible
1827 53| decapitation, or a breaking of the neck, which opens at once a vast
1828 57| Dardanus, and Damigeron, and Nectabis, and Berenice. There is
1829 37| numerical estimate of the time needed to consummate our natural
1830 25| in the shape of) a copper needle or spike, by which the actual
1831 51| to have made way for its neighbour: it would, besides, have
1832 46| from the citadel of Athens. Neoptolemus the tragic actor, through
1833 8 | ray, is expelled from the nest as a degenerate creature!
1834 31| have supposed to have been Nestor, from his honeyed eloquence?~
1835 57| how matters went in the nether regions,--a purpose which, (
1836 55| and adapted to receive the new-comer. Observe, then, the difference
1837 57| their brave chieftains, as Nicander affirms. Well, we admit
1838 25| which is formed with a nicely-adjusted flexible frame for opening
1839 8 | great a weight with the nimblest motion! Again, even if the
1840 25| souls came into being amidst nipping frosts; for as the substance
1841 5 | Tangere enim et tangi nisi corpus nulla potest res."~"
1842 8 | face his glory, that the noble character of its young is
1843 16| sewer of tares, and the nocturnal spoiler of the crop of corn.~
1844 49| attentively their tremors, and nods, and bright smiles as they
1845 10| to me, then, not only the noisy tube, but the stinging lance
1846 30| earth as aborigines, or as nomade tribes, or as exiles, or
1847 43| condition which may be rendered non-natural by defect or by excess.
1848 37| well as (the goddesses) Nona and Decima, called after
1849 50| poisonous water from Mount Nonacris in Arcadia. Then, again,
1850 15| soul itself is simply a nonentity. One Dicaearchus, a Messenian,
1851 24| his ears, to hear; or his nose, to smell; or his mouth,
1852 6 | the crumbs from the minute nostrums of Aristotle. But what is
1853 28| falsehood shun novelty. This notable saying I hold to be plainly
1854 14| bands, passages for the notes, outlets for their sounds,
1855 20| circumstances have to be noticed, which, in addition to the
1856 25| REFUTES, PHYSIOLOGICALLY, THE NOTION THAT THE SOUL IS INTRODUCED
1857 20| according to our (Christian) notions, they are the Lord God and
1858 20| this time into proverbial notoriety. Comic poets deride the
1859 34| another, she became the notorious Helen who was so ruinous
1860 56| the consolation which he nourishes with pain and grief. He
1861 25| since he is disturbed at the novel sound; and you would crave
1862 3 | than the sophist. Whatever noxious vapours, accordingly, exhaled
1863 5 | enim et tangi nisi corpus nulla potest res."~"For nothing
1864 5 | and this, too, in greater numbers--asserting for the soul a
1865 41| committed no violation of the nuptial vow!~
1866 6 | barbarians, which have had no nurture of philosopher's lore indeed,
1867 57| may find in Heraclides, or Nymphodorus, or Herodotus; and the Celts,
1868 17| which was the cause of the oar seeming to be inclined or
1869 17| because it asserts that oars, when immersed in the water,
1870 46| quitted his tent for it, in obedience to a vision of Artorius,
1871 18| inherent in the soul, and as obedient to it, seeing that it embraces
1872 40| at the same time he who obeys such an evil command is
1873 18| only a superiority in the objects--as of lofty ones contrasted
1874 32| inconvenience us,) lest we should be obliged to nave recourse to raillery
1875 11| nature of my present inquiry obliges me to call the soul spirit
1876 30| most pleasant farms have obliterated all traces of what were
1877 17| angles with a similar light obliterates their outlines. So, again,
1878 24| exist similar differences in obliviousness? Oblivion, however, is uniform
1879 17| they do not load with the obloquy of deception every one of
1880 37| doubt really, but yet only obscurely, shines out in developed
1881 53| enclosure it obstructs and obscures the soul, and sullies it
1882 41| the evil, is, owing to the obscuring character thereof, either
1883 33| dishes of a Sylla, finds its obsequies in a banquet, is devoured
1884 35| out must arise from your observance of the compact: you must
1885 2 | Heraclitus was quite right, when, observing the thick darkness which
1886 28| report which survived the now obsolete tradition; suppose him to
1887 53| reason of its enclosure it obstructs and obscures the soul, and
1888 33| pretence that the souls of men obtain as their partners the kind
1889 54| privilege which impurity obtains at the hands of philosophers!
1890 20| cause of a subtle or an obtuse intellect in the quality
1891 29| that folly is born with its obtuseness from wisdom, because wisdom
1892 22| works of nature, and its occasional gift of divination, independently
1893 17| opinions we form; for these are occasioned and controlled by our senses,
1894 30| frequently meets our view (and occasions complaint), is our teeming
1895 18| from the soul on certain occasons; for (you suppose) that
1896 50| and likewise about the occupations of sleep, even dreams. Let
1897 30| growth of population, either occupying different portions of the
1898 46| who was also plain Julius Octavius, and personally unknown
1899 56| to assume the state of an octogenarian, although it had barely
1900 57| that inventor of all these odd opinions--with its Ostanes,
1901 40| indictment. Greater is the odium which falls on the principal,
1902 40| a way that the principal offender who actually committed the
1903 27| Indeed (if I run the risk of offending modesty even, in my desire
1904 34| same money which he had offered for the Holy Spirit,--a
1905 26| XXVI. SCRIPTURE ALONE OFFERS CLEAR KNOWLEDGE ON THE QUESTIONS
1906 40| the principal, when his officials are punished through his
1907 37| part, believe the angels to officiate herein for God. The embryo
1908 35| OF CARPOCRATES, ANOTHER OFFSET FROM THE PYTHAGOREAN DOGMAS,
1909 6 | weak, actually refreshed oftentimes by food. Indeed, when deprived
1910 37| and rest, and kingdom. The ogdoad, or eightfold number, therefore,
1911 33| people vote even sacrifices! Oh, what judicial sentences
1912 17| that the fragrance of the ointment which He afterwards smelled
1913 6 | of sight; smell, to the olfactory organ. And, just as in these
1914 46| the pudenda of his consort Olympias the form of a small ring,
1915 52| had just conquered in the Olympic games; or for glory, like
1916 24| presage and augury of some omen, danger, or joy. Now, if
1917 37| soul's birth, that I may omit nothing incidental in the
1918 12| will arise how two can be one--whether by the confusion
1919 12| of Socrates, Valentinus' "only-begotten" of his father Bythus, and
1920 37| likewise from the birth onwards; in the first place, because
1921 41| when intercepted by an opaque body, still remains, although
1922 25| nicely-adjusted flexible frame for opening the uterus first of all,
1923 57| of these souls, demons operate, especially such as used
1924 16| our Lord these elements operated in entire accordance with
1925 16| the facts which we find operating also in Christ. For you
1926 11| which is the Holy Ghost's operative virtue of prophecy. And
1927 17| opinion; it is the soul that opines. They separated opinion
1928 57| inventor of all these odd opinions--with its Ostanes, and Typhon,
1929 1 | whether the time was an opportune one for their (great) master--(
1930 9 | religious services matter and opportunity are afforded to her of seeing
1931 32| find such animals as I must oppose to one another on the ground
1932 3 | the philosophers--and by opposing to them the maxims of heavenly
1933 8 | universe consists of harmonious oppositions, according to Empedocles' (
1934 24| during which the oblivion oppressed the soul? The whole course
1935 25| throbs, and the burden which oppresses you constantly changes its
1936 50| Colophon the waters of an oracle-inspiring fountain affect men with
1937 40| stripes who instigates and orders the crime, whilst at the
1938 43| departs, and night provides an ordinance by taking from all objects
1939 45| circumstance it still happens ordinarily (and from the order results
1940 17| one object for another. Orestes in his sister sees his mother;
1941 10| sort? Man, indeed, although organically furnished with lungs and
1942 25| when lying awry in the orifice of the womb he impedes parturition,
1943 4 | THE SOUL WAS CREATED AND ORIGINATED AT BIRTH.~After settling
1944 4 | acknowledge that the soul originates in the breath of God, it
1945 25| quite a separate formation, originating elsewhere and externally
1946 33| and he will prefer the ornaments of his fame to the graces
1947 46| oracles of Amphiaraus at Oropus, of Amphi-lochus at Mallus,
1948 1 | sight of his thenceforward orphan children, yet his soul must
1949 57| these odd opinions--with its Ostanes, and Typhon, and Dardanus,
1950 | otherwise
1951 27| arises at once from the out-drip of the soul, just as that
1952 9 | man, different from the outer, but yet one in the twofold
1953 27| primeval) man comes the entire outflow and redundance of men's
1954 19| objects above them, and outrunning everything else, to hang
1955 43| perspiration indicates an over-heated digestion; and digestion
1956 5 | deserted by the soul, it is overcome by death. The soul, therefore,
1957 30| into other abodes their overcrowded masses. The aborigines remain
1958 47| of which causes them to overflow even to the profane, since
1959 18| it, and to whose help it owes everything which it acquires?
1960 32| such as moles, bats, and owls. These examples (have I
1961 48| the liver would produce a painful disturbance of the mind.
1962 53| not the soul's escape, nor painfully separates its departure
1963 55| soft beds, but in the sharp pains of martyrdom: you must take
1964 36| Apelles (the heretic, not the painter) gives the priority over
1965 5 | testifies by its own blushes and paleness. The soul, therefore, is (
1966 48| were reversely stretched: a palpitation of the heart would ensue,
1967 50| Heresies, indeed, for the most pan spring hurriedly into existence,
1968 14| into two; Zeno into three; Panaetius, into five or six; Soranus,
1969 32| dogs, ill-tempered ones panthers, good men sheep, talkative
1970 18| they actually apply to the parable of the ten virgins: making
1971 43| more readily by types and parables, not in words only, but
1972 58| besides. This point the Paraclete has also pressed home on
1973 17| discredit the fact of the truly parallel fabric of yonder porch or
1974 20| spare form stimulates it; paralysis prostrates the mind, a decline
1975 28| floor their victims; and the paredral spirits, which are ever
1976 43| the same; Empedocles and Parmenides as a cooling down thereof;
1977 23| them, forsooth, to have partaken of that sublime virtue which
1978 55| patriarchs and prophets partakers of Himself. (This being
1979 54| teachers, when they are parted from each other by so distant
1980 30| conquerors--as the Scythians in Parthia, the Temenidae in Peloponnesus,
1981 51| part. And yet even this partial survival of the soul finds
1982 53| LAST ACT OF VITALITY; NEVER PARTIALLY OR FRACTIONALLY WITHDRAWN
1983 51| attest the fact). But not a particle of the soul can possibly
1984 51| soul were divisible into particles, any one of which has to
1985 51| corpse. What if the air were particularly dry, and the ground of a
1986 2 | the arguments which both parties employ from the opinions
1987 14| would not admit of such a partition as they would have the soul
1988 58| restored flesh, which, as the partner of its actions, should be
1989 33| souls of men obtain as their partners the kind of animals which
1990 58| it has done without the partnership of the flesh. So, on the
1991 16| divides the soul into two parts--the rational and the irrational.
1992 37| months of gestation; and Partula, to manage and direct parturition;
1993 56| immediately after the soul's de- parture from the body; whether some
1994 40| character of its own! Now the party which aids in the commission
1995 46| Hermione in Macedon, of Pasiphae in Laconia. Then, again,
1996 12| Aristotle makes even the senses passions, or states of emotion And
1997 33| shall fall to the lot of Patience? what animal to the lot
1998 56| as in the case of Homer's Patroclus, who earnestly asks for
1999 35| to existence, until it "pays the utmost farthing," thrust
2000 52| life in joy and honour, in peace and pleasure. That is still
2001 51| her age and beauty slept peacefully (in Jesus), after a singularly