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it being by initiation that they acquired a knowledge of their affi-
nity with the Deity ; and learned to class themselves with the
more exalted emanations, that flowed from the same source.
164. The corporeal residence of this divine particle or emana-
tion, as well as of the grosser principle of vital heat and animal
motion, w as supposed to be the blood : 1 whence, in Ulysses's
evocation of the Dead, the shades are spoken of as void of
all perception of corporeal objects until they had tasted the
blood of the victims1 which he had offered; by means of
which their faculties were replenished by a re-union with that
principle of vitality from which they had been separated: for,
according to this ancient system, there were two souls, the one the
principle of thought and perception, called NOOS, and 4>PHN;
and the other the mere power of animal motion and sensation,
called &rXH;3 both of which were allowed to remain entire, in the
shades, in the person of Tiresias only.4 The prophetess of Argos,
in like manner, became possessed of the knowledge of futurity by
a To aifta rfp avdpwTrw i:\eit7Tov avp.$c.KheTO.i pLtpos vvvefftos' evioi 5e Xeyovffi, to ~av.
Hippocrat. de Morbis, lib. i. s. xxviii.
Tvtap.rj yap ij rov avBpccirov -jreipvuev ev ttj \air] KoiXrp (tt)s Kap5i?7s,) Kat apxei r7l*
g\\t]S $uxvi- rpe<perai Se ovre (Titiolctly, ovre ttotoio'iv airo rrjs vtiSuos, aWa KaOapy kcu
ipuToeitieei Trepioviriy, ycyovmri ck ttjs Siaxpiaws rov a'iftaros. Hippocrat. de Cordc,
s. viii.
To fiev a'ifia KvpiuiTO.Ti\v rov ev vtitv exov Swa/uf, ctyia Kat Bepuov vrrt Kat iypov.
Plutarch. Syinpos. lib. viii. c. 20.
Nullius carnis sanguinem comedetis, nam aitiina omnis carnis est sanguis
ejus. Levil. c. xvii. v. 14. ed. Cleric.
2 Od. A. 152 et seq.
3 Now /tev ev tyvxri, ^"Xnv 5' ev aaiptart apyta,
'Hftas eyKareHr/Ke irarr,p avSpav re Detnv re.
Orphic. Airocnr. No. xxiv. c<l. Gesner.
Secundum liaac philbsoph&m, qvxn anima csr, qua vivunt, spirant, alun-
tur t« €//i(/ox<a. vovs mens est, divinius quiddam, quibusdara aniinabus super-
udditum, sive inditum, a Deo. Gesner. Not. in eudfl.
4 ;---07j/3atou Tttpetrtzo
Mamos o\aou, rov re tjipeves efXireSot tier
Tip Kat rcSvettorl V oof nope TteprTefovtta,
Oi<f ttxvvttOaii Odyss. K. v.
it being by initiation that they acquired a knowledge of their affi-
nity with the Deity ; and learned to class themselves with the
more exalted emanations, that flowed from the same source.
164. The corporeal residence of this divine particle or emana-
tion, as well as of the grosser principle of vital heat and animal
motion, w as supposed to be the blood : 1 whence, in Ulysses's
evocation of the Dead, the shades are spoken of as void of
all perception of corporeal objects until they had tasted the
blood of the victims1 which he had offered; by means of
which their faculties were replenished by a re-union with that
principle of vitality from which they had been separated: for,
according to this ancient system, there were two souls, the one the
principle of thought and perception, called NOOS, and 4>PHN;
and the other the mere power of animal motion and sensation,
called &rXH;3 both of which were allowed to remain entire, in the
shades, in the person of Tiresias only.4 The prophetess of Argos,
in like manner, became possessed of the knowledge of futurity by
a To aifta rfp avdpwTrw i:\eit7Tov avp.$c.KheTO.i pLtpos vvvefftos' evioi 5e Xeyovffi, to ~av.
Hippocrat. de Morbis, lib. i. s. xxviii.
Tvtap.rj yap ij rov avBpccirov -jreipvuev ev ttj \air] KoiXrp (tt)s Kap5i?7s,) Kat apxei r7l*
g\\t]S $uxvi- rpe<perai Se ovre (Titiolctly, ovre ttotoio'iv airo rrjs vtiSuos, aWa KaOapy kcu
ipuToeitieei Trepioviriy, ycyovmri ck ttjs Siaxpiaws rov a'iftaros. Hippocrat. de Cordc,
s. viii.
To fiev a'ifia KvpiuiTO.Ti\v rov ev vtitv exov Swa/uf, ctyia Kat Bepuov vrrt Kat iypov.
Plutarch. Syinpos. lib. viii. c. 20.
Nullius carnis sanguinem comedetis, nam aitiina omnis carnis est sanguis
ejus. Levil. c. xvii. v. 14. ed. Cleric.
2 Od. A. 152 et seq.
3 Now /tev ev tyvxri, ^"Xnv 5' ev aaiptart apyta,
'Hftas eyKareHr/Ke irarr,p avSpav re Detnv re.
Orphic. Airocnr. No. xxiv. c<l. Gesner.
Secundum liaac philbsoph&m, qvxn anima csr, qua vivunt, spirant, alun-
tur t« €//i(/ox<a. vovs mens est, divinius quiddam, quibusdara aniinabus super-
udditum, sive inditum, a Deo. Gesner. Not. in eudfl.
4 ;---07j/3atou Tttpetrtzo
Mamos o\aou, rov re tjipeves efXireSot tier
Tip Kat rcSvettorl V oof nope TteprTefovtta,
Oi<f ttxvvttOaii Odyss. K. v.