Ocellus Lucanus: On the Nature of the Universe. Taurus, the Platonic Philosoher, On the Eternity of the World. Julius Firmicus Maternus Of the Thema Mundi; in which the Positions of the Stars at the Commencement of the Several Mundane Periods is Given. Select Theorems on the Perpetuity of Time, by Proelustranslator, 1831 - 95 من الصفحات |
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according to nature Ægyptus ancient animals Archytas Aristotle Asclepius assert beginning celestial circle circular motion cities Commentary comprehends conformably conjoined conjunction consists contrary powers corrupted dæmons deluge Demiurgus Diogenes Laertius dissolved divine dryness in earth Egypt elements epistle of Plato essence eternal exist facility of motion feminine sign finite Firmicus fixed stars fore gene geniture Gods governed greater apocatastasis heat heavens Hence Hermes Trismegistus human race incorruptible infinite intellect JULIUS FIRMICUS MATERNUS Jupiter likewise Manetho masculine sign matter Mercury moist moisture in air Moon mundane period mutation naturally moved observes obtuseness OCELLUS LUCANUS opinion Osiris Petosiris philosopher planets Proclus Pythagoras quæ requisite revolutions right line Saturn says simple body simple motion sphere sublunary supervenient Synesius Syrianus take place Taurus THEOREM things moved Timæus of Plato tion translation treatise Typhos universe whole world is unbegotten Youg δε μεν περι τοις
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الصفحة 29 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
الصفحة 79 - ... must sometimes subsist according to, and sometimes contrary to, nature. Hence the celestial bodies, which are the first parts of the universe, perpetually subsist according to nature, both the whole spheres and the multitude coordinate to these wholes*; and the only alteration which they experience is a mutation of figure, and variation of light at different periods; but in the sublunary region, while the spheres of the elements remain, on account of their subsistence as wholes, always according...
الصفحة 79 - The different periods in which these mutations happen are called by Plato, with great propriety, periods of fertility and sterility; for in these periods a fertility or sterility of men, irrational animals, and plants takes place; so that in fertile periods mankind will be both more numerous, and upon the whole superior in mental and bodily endowments, to the men of a barren period. And a similar reasoning must be extended to animals and plants. The so much celebrated heroic age was the result of...
الصفحة 82 - They say that a conjunction of planets then took place, and their tables show this conjunction. Bailly states that Jupiter and Mercury were then in the same degree of the ecliptic, Mars at a distance of only eight, and Saturn of seven degrees ; whence it follows that at the point of time given by the Brahmins as the commencement of...
الصفحة 50 - Necepso (a), who deserve all possible admiration, and whose wisdom approached to the very penetralia of Deity, scientifically delivered to us the geniture of the world, that they might demonstrate and show that man was fashioned conformably to the nature and similitude of the world...
الصفحة 74 - No one shall look up to heaven. The religious man shall be accounted insane, the irreligious shall be thought wise, the furious brave, and the worst of men shall be considered a good man. For the soul, and all things about it, by which it is either naturally immortal, or conceives that it shall attain to immortality, conformably to what I have explained to you, shall not only be the subject of laughter...
الصفحة 73 - O Egypt, Egypt, fables alone shall remain of thy religion, and these such as will be incredible to posterity ; and words alone shall be left engraved in stones, narrating thy pious deeds. The Scythian also, or Indian, or some other similar nation, shall inhabit Egypt. For divinity shall return to heaven, all its inhabitants shall die, and thus Egypt, bereft both of God and man, shall be deserted.
الصفحة 74 - ... appointed for him who applies himself to the religion of intellect. New statutes and new laws shall be established, and nothing religious, or which is worthy of heaven or celestial concerns, shall be heard or believed by the mind. There will be a lamentable departure of the Gods from men...
الصفحة 39 - ... representing this beautiful distribution of the elements, by Proclus, arithmetically. Let the number 60 represent fire, and 480 earth; and the media between these, viz. 120 and 240, will correspond to air and water. For, as 60 : 120 :: 240 : 480. But 60 = 3 X 5 X 4, 120 = 3 X 10 X 4, 240 = 6 X 10 X 4, and 480 = 6 X 10 X 8. So that these numbers will correspond to the properties of the elements as follows: Fire. Air. 3X5X4 3X10X4:: Subtle, acute, moveable. Subtle, blunt, moveable. Water. Earth....
الصفحة 50 - Quid mirum, noscere mundum Si possunt homines, quibus est et mundus in ipsis, Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva?