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ISIS and OSIRIS. 69
general fystem of Matter, whatever either in the earth
or atmosphere, in the waters, or in the heavens and
in the dars, is regular, permanent, and salutary, such as
are orderly seasons, a due temperament of the air, and
the dated revolutions of the heavenly bodies, all this
may be diled the efflux and express image of Ofiris.
On the contrary, those powers of the universal Soul*
which are subjedt to the inssuence of passions, the boi-
sterous, the irrational, and the unruly part of it, may
be called Typho: as in the material sydem, whatever
is noxious, unwholsome and disorderly, such as are ir-
regular seasons, a distempered date of the air, eclipses
of the sun and moon, may be all properly enough deno-
minated the outrages of Typho, and representations of
him. And indeed this notion seems to be even in-
cluded in the name Seth, which they sometimes give
him, by which they mean the tyrannical and over-
bearing Powerj or, as the word frequently lignifies, the
Power that overturns all things and that overleaps all
bounds. So again, that Bebo, whom some authors make
to be one of his companions, Manetho asserts to be none
other than Typho himself, who was called after this
name—and indeed, as the proper import of this word
is reftraint and hindrance, no name can be imagined
more suitable than this to that malignant being, whose
power puts a hop to the natural course of things, and
turns them from that right and good way in which
they would otherwise proceed.
50. ’Tis upon these principles therefore that of all
tame beads, the mod senseless and dupid are devoted to
him, such as is the j and of the wilder kind, the
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