The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 298
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- 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
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 298. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0318?run=74