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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 488

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  1. God called Llrania.
  2. BOOKL
  3. Mater oE the sun and oF che whole Worid, is plainty cestitied by
  4. Plutarch (ertio is a Competene Witnels in this CasC, he beins
  5. Priest ot this Apollo) irritins chus concernins him in his Detect
  6. Oracles, erre 1n165 62W Erre WveD iNIS, ny TaTHe, u, En enCN 28 oegr
  7. ravldc, sn cinos a ra EISV DcovuS 285 WV aevdecon S5, oic abrioc 6,L uoos us
  8. TecPn5, i 2 Eivat i Deorev. Wherher ApOllo be the Sun, or mhether ho
  9. be the Lord and Father of the sun, placed far above all sensible
  10. and Corporeal Nature, it is not likely, that he sould non deny his Ora
  11. cles tothem to mhom himsels is the cause of Generation and Nonristment,
  12. os Lise and understanding.
  13. Morever Drania aphrodite, the Feaventy Venus Or LOVC, Was
  14. Universat Numen al(O, Or anorher name oF Cod, accordine 10 his
  15. more General Notion, as Comprehendins ihe whole Worid. it beins,
  16. Tame with th aE FCCIS, OF LoVC, Wrtrich Orpheus, aud Others in
  17. ristorte, made t0 be ihe First Orisinal os allthines. FOr it is cet
  18. Tain chat che Ancients distinguistred concernins a double vemus aue
  19. Fove. Thus Pansanias in Platos symposium, il pd q nS recobv
  20. aepurcoe Oieaers doreerne, u d n secricer Enovoud Eouy. n y vecore
  21. Aio5 n, aIcovS, in ) NS avaeruaior du n Fecot e
  22. orveegors rardr Or oEdS N_NCidat, 7 3, SedVOV. There are Tvo Venule
  23. and therefore tvo Loves, one ihe Older and mithont a Mother, Ib.
  24. Danehter of Tlranus or Heaven, which we call the Feaventy Venus
  25. anoiher gouneer, begotten from Juxiter and Dione, which e calt
  26. Vulsar VevuS; and accordinsly are there of necessiy tuo Loves,
  27. siverine 10 these tuo Venules, the one vulear. and the other Heavenis
  28. TheElder oscheletmo venuses, is in Plaro Caid to be Seniourto zapiola
  29. and saturn, and by Orpheus che Oldest of allihines, and nec t octas
  30. The First Begetter of all. Uxon Wtrichaccoune perhaps, ic was calle
  31. by che Oriental NacionS, Nylitta Or Genitrix, a8 beins che FruitsM
  32. Morher of all. This was al(o che lame wich Plato 8 ro re c rovna NdV, Jhe L
  33. Fair; che C ause of al Pulchritude, Order and Harmony in che Woric
  34. And Pausanias the Writer tells uS, thacthere were Temples severalis
  35. crected to cach oF thele Venusses or Loves, the Heaventy and the
  36. ear, and chat Drania OF CHC Heaventy Venus masso called, Stri ecoli na
  37. Daceco i aminaepatico nbs ocopcerco, because ihe Love beloneine to itu was p
  38. and free from all corporeal affectionihict asit is in men, is but a parce
  39. cipation OE that F irst Vrania, or Feaventy Venus and Lore, God hita
  40. sels. And chus is Venus described by Euripides in Stobaens, a3 thc Sl
  41. Preme Numen.
  42. TWd A∞C9dTWV 3X oe95 ion DEos;
  43. PAN Sst ar eroIS, 3dE pcrenodas av
  44. con rédons nEq doo diexelo
  45. AVZH TCEDC OE nau n reilaS BC978G, 8C.
  46. P. 42:.
  47. P. 108.
  48. Chus alsoby A-
  49. i airrdes.
  50. eue
  51. ai
  52. Srol. Ee ncere. P. 15
  53. Pochis lence, Doyon not see hou sreat à Sod this Venus is ? but jon
  54. are never able 1o dectare her Greatnes, nor 10 measure the vast ext
  55. thereos. For this is se rohich nourisethboth Thee and Me and al Mortals,
  56. andwbich makes Feaven and Carth friendly to conspire toeether,
  57. Butby Ovidchis is more sully exprefted, in his Fastorum,
  58. 1
  59. t rul
  60. uraque dat C
  61. que suos in
  62. la Des
  63. omnes
  64. Satis Ca
  65. uprem
  66. us BOCI
  67. Quod AI
  68. Concorde
  69. laedus
  70. Curru pe
  71. Hlanc re
  72. Terras ac
  73. et Celo
  74. l se
  75. Quicqui
  76. Bellumc
  77. Hie sanc
  78. Juncto
  79. tlice
  80. Bi vesti
  81. quole
  82. lod ei
  83. Quod VI
  84. Castr n
  85. selix
  86. ette

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 488. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0508?run=74