# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0318 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0318?run=74 # Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137) # Folio 298, page id 1066509719:0318 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=1066509719&page=318 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/1066509719/jpgs/default/00000318.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 56 lines, status machine # Lines: 56 recognised, mean confidence 0.85 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. Orpheus a Rank Polycheist. no doubeat ail made, butthat the Orphick verses, by whomloer WVrIITEN, WCTEIOME OEFHEM OF greac antiquier (they being muca Older chan cither Aristorle, Plato Ox Ferodotus) asthey mere allo hao in preat esteem amons (t Che PaganS; aud theretore me may rery ne make a judBment ok thC Theolosy OF che aucient Pasans, Frol them. Non chat orpheus, the Orphick Doctrine, and Poems, vere Polythet Cical, is a chins ackenom ledoed by aII. Justin Martyr actirIS Lhat C pheus aterted Three Fundred and sixty Gods; he also bestons upot him, chis Honourable Fiele (iF IL may BC ID ACCOUNECd) OF not WeoTM r05 Ta TE n XeCoroS dst C NANOC, The Father and First Teacher of Polythe ism amonest the Crecks; he suppolins chac Fomer derived his Polytheisnt Trom him; Ouneos D nONVDESNTSODEaS ZnNCOCaE SoEaV, V dad r TaSICOV Decr prumilat, iva un doEn a OeVES anast nOHOECOS. EOme emulatine Orpheus his Polytheism, did himsets therefore fabuloustymeit of many Cods, that hemisht notseem to dissent from his Poems, otict hehad so ereat a reneration for. Wich whrich also aereeth che Ctimonr oF Athenaeoras, Oeos n Tâ orduata Decov EC To5 EEo eeV, sy 7a queods deEuNDE, ny do EnaesoIS Er egula EirE, co j OuneCS TO NOMa i dec MaNIsa Exela. Orpheus first invented the very names es, Cods, declarins their Generations, and what vas done by each of thec and Homer for the most part follons him tberein. Indecd the who Nythical Theology, Or F ables of the Cods rogethex wich the Relieto Rites amonsst the Orecks, are commonly suppoled to have onet cheir Fixs Originalto no ortex bur orpheus. In wtiich Orphick bles, noc only che Thines of Nature, avd Parts of the Worid Were Theolosized, buc al(o aIL MAnHEE OE Fumane Passions, Imperfection aud Pices (accordine co the L iteral SCHCC) autributed 10 che Cd Intomuch chac divers oF the Pagansthemselves, 100k great ottence a in Lau. ensir. them, asFor Example Iocrates; Wrtro concludes that a Dirine Nem sis ox Vengeance was intlicted uxon orpheus For ehis Impiety, osg i MaISa D TOISTCV NS7CV ae dauoS, diue C naodeis BioV EZCMA TnoE, C pheus. nho mas most of all euilty in this kind, died a violent deai AIIO DioS. Laertius For this C ause made a question, whether he Mout reckon Orpheus amons (Eche Philolophers or no: aud otters hare lo cluded chac Plato ouxhe co hare banistid Orpheus liteerile Out ot Commonvealch, sorchelame realon chache did Homer, whichischc exprested, For not Fyins vell concernine the Gods. And herc M may tale notice or the Monstrotity and ExtravaBanCY OL Orpich tiis Phavey, trom wtrat Diamascius and others telL us, that he Mace one oFhis Principles to be segnoita ncPaNaS L̀ ZOVTA NeOC, aS Ta ex iy néorros, et ut (c de De re cocono, n 6 couur nteeu A Drae havine ihe Heads both of a Bull and a Lion, and in the midst n Faceos a Cod, with Golden Wrines upon his BBoulders; Wtrich (0rlod must be an Incorporeal Deisy and Hercules, Wich etiicta Nature (calle Ananche and adrastea) was actociated. Nevertheless the Generaltus ot the Crcekist Pasans, lookins uxon chis Orphens, nOt 2s a mect Fancitul Poet and Fabulator, buc as a Scrious ind Protound Philola pher, or Myllical Theologer; a Person transcendenrly Holy au Wise; chey suxposed alltis Fables of the Cods, robe deep Wysteries Allegorios u d nd on e sin