The Golden Verses of Pythagoras · 61 of 122 · tr. Florence M. Firth
Section 13 (part 28)
Ἥ δ᾽ ἔτεκ᾽ ἄλλο πέλωρον ἀμήχανον, οὐδὲν ἐοικὸς 295 θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποις οὐδ᾽ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν, ἐν σπῆι ἔνι γλαφυρῷ θείην κρατερόφρον᾽ Ἔχιδναν, ἥμισυ μὲν νύμφην ἑλικώπιδα καλλιπάρῃον, ἥμισυ δ᾽ αὖτε πέλωρον ὄφιν δεινόν τε μέγαν τε αἰόλον ὠμηστὴν ζαθέης ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίης.
300 Ἔνθα δέ οἱ σπέος ἐστὶ κάτω κοίλῃ ὑπὸ πέτρῃ τηλοῦ ἀπ᾽ ἀθανάτων τε θεῶν θνητῶν τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων· ἔνθ᾽ ἄρα οἱ δάσσαντο θεοὶ κλυτὰ δώματα ναίειν.
Ἥ δ᾽ ἐρυτ᾽ εἰν Ἀρίμοισιν ὑπὸ χθόνα λυγρὴ Ἔχιδνα, ἀθάνατος νύμφη καὶ ἀγήραος ἤματα πάντα.
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The soul's journey back to its divine origin, reversing the fall into matter through stages of purification or illumination.
As a demigod, Heracles returns from the earth to his father Zeus in the realm of the immortals.
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A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.
The hero leaves the earth to reach the realm of the immortals, depicting an upward journey toward the divine.
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The doctrine — central to Eastern Orthodox and Maximian theology — that the human person is progressively transformed into a partaker of the divine nature by grace, not merely justified or united in passing ecstasy.
The passage describes Heracles ascending from earth to dwell among the immortals in Zeus's house, reflecting a mythological form of deification.
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e.
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Athan.
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