The Golden Verses of Pythagoras · 112 of 122 · tr. Florence M. Firth
Section 13 (part 79)
Τρεῖς δέ οἱ Εὐρυνόμη Χάριτας τέκε καλλιπαρῄους, Ὠκεανοῦ κούρη, πολυήρατον εἶδος ἔχουσα, Ἀγλαΐην τε καὶ Εὐφροσύνην Θαλίην τ᾽ ἐρατεινήν· [τῶν καὶ ἀπὸ βλεφάρων ἔρος εἴβετο δερκομενάων 910 λυσιμελής· καλὸν δέ θ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ὀφρύσι δερκιόωνται.] Αὐτὰρ ὁ Δήμητρος πολυφόρβης ἐς λέχος ἦλθεν, ἣ τέκε Περσεφόνην λευκώλενον, ἣν Ἀιδωνεὺς ἥρπασε ἧς παρὰ μητρός· ἔδωκε δὲ μητίετα Ζεύς.
Μνημοσύνης δ᾽ ἐξαῦτις ἐράσσατο καλλικόμοιο, 915 ἐξ ἧς οἱ Μοῦσαι χρυσάμπυκες ἐξεγένοντο ἐννέα, τῇσιν ἅδον θαλίαι καὶ τέρψις ἀοιδῆς.
Λητὼ δ᾽ Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ἰοχέαιραν, ἱμερόεντα γόνον περὶ πάντων Οὐρανιώνων, γείνατο, αἰγιόχοιο Διὸς φιλότητι μιγεῖσα.
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Anthropomorphismtheology
Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.
[auto] The passage describes Zeus cutting his own womb, taking wives, and bearing children in human-like biological terms.
All passages →Divine Providencetheology
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
The Moirai and Horae are described as distributing good and evil to mortals, indicating divine ordering of human affairs.
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The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.
The deities are portrayed as active agents who marry, reproduce, and intervene in the cosmos rather than abstract principles.
All passages →Maat Cosmic Ordercosmology
The Egyptian principle of truth, balance, and right order underlying both the cosmos and human conduct; the parallel to Zoroastrian asha and Greek dike.
The daughters of Themis include Dike (Justice) and Eunomia (Good Order), which parallel the concept of cosmic truth and order.
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“According to another order, however, he arranges the God Emeph prior to, and as the leader of, the celestial Gods. And he says that this God is an intellect, itself intellectually perceiving itself, and converting intellections to itself. B…”
Shared concept: Maat Cosmic Order — The Egyptian principle of truth, balance, and right order underlying both the cosmos and human conduct; the parallel to Zoroastrian asha and Greek dike. (derived)
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“and all things are moved by a longing for the Beautiful and Good, to accomplish every outward work and form every act of will.
And true reasoning will also dare to affirm that even the Creator of all things Himself yearneth after all thing…”
Shared concept: Living God — The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality. (derived)
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“But neither does the cause [of the energies] of more excellent natures subsist as a certain middle instrument, nor does he who invokes operate through him who prophesies; for to assert these things is impious. And it is much more true to sa…”
Shared concept: Living God — The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality. (derived)
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“Section 5 5. Still more unreasonably: There are men, bound to human bodies and subject to desire, grief, anger, who think so generously of their own faculty that they declare themselves in contact with the Intelligible World, but deny that…”
Shared concept: Divine Providence — Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity. (derived)
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“Section 16 16.
But if all this is true, what room is left for evil?
Where are we to place wrong-doing and sin?
How explain that in a world organized in good, the efficient agents [human beings] behave unjustly, commit sin?
And how comes…”
Shared concept: Divine Providence — Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity. (derived)
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“De Iside et Osiride , § 14.
2.
See Lanzone, op.
cit.
, p.
65.
3 Pyramid of Unas , l.
187.
4 See Le Nom antique de la Grande-Oasis (in Journal Asiatique , IX e Série, to i., pp.
233-40).
6 ###.
Pyramid of Unas, l.
439.] they app…”
Shared concept: Maat Cosmic Order — The Egyptian principle of truth, balance, and right order underlying both the cosmos and human conduct; the parallel to Zoroastrian asha and Greek dike. (derived)
egyptian|The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani)|Chapter 43 (part 90)
“De Iside et Osiride , § 14.
2.
See Lanzone, op.
cit.
, p.
65.
3 Pyramid of Unas , l.
187.
4 See Le Nom antique de la Grande-Oasis (in Journal Asiatique , IX e Série, to i., pp.
233-40).
6 ###.
Pyramid of Unas, l.
439.] they app…”
Shared concept: Maat Cosmic Order — The Egyptian principle of truth, balance, and right order underlying both the cosmos and human conduct; the parallel to Zoroastrian asha and Greek dike. (derived)
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“For just as, supposing we were in thought to represent the soul itself in bodily shape, and represent this indivisible substance as surrounded by bodily parts, we should, in such a case, give the surrounding parts a different meaning suited…”
Shared concept: Anthropomorphism — Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery. (derived)
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“The second, symbolized by Eye, is the origin of feminine Grace, of Authority.
We have seen that Power and Authority find their equilibrium in Love.
Each man, a reflected molecule of humanity made in its image, contains in himself an Adam,…”
Shared concept: Anthropomorphism — Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery. (derived)