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ISIS and OSIRIS. 77
niade one harmonious system even out of the most 'dis-
cordant principles, and that he did not utterly destroy,
tho’ he greatly maimed, the power of the evil being—»
so that being by this means reduced to a weak and lan-
guid condition, in the present date of things it blends
and mixes it self with those parts of the world, which
are most liable to vicissitude, and so becomes the cause
of those tremblings and ihakings which we sometimes
feel in the earth, of those great droughts and noxious
winds in the air, as also of hurricanes and thunders:
it moreover in feds the winds and the waters with
peililential diseases, and extends its baneful influence
even as high as the orb of the moon it self, whose light
is sometimes confounded, and sometimes quite darkned
by it—this at leastseems to be the sentiment of the E-
gyptians, when they tell us one while that typho wound-
ed the eye of Orz/r, and then again that he struck it quite
out and swallowed it up, though he afterwards returned
it to the sun. Where his evident, that by the first
iiroke they mean no more than the common monthly
wainings of the moon, and by the total deprivation of
the eye an eclipse of that body, which the sun ac-
cordingly remedies by shining upon it again, as soon
as it has pasied the earth’s ihadow.
56. Now unbuerfal nature, in its utmost and most
perfed extent, may be considered as made up of these
three things, of Intelligence \ of Matter > and of that which
is the result of both these, in the Greek language,,
called Kofmos^ a word which equally signifies either
beauty and order or the world it self—-thefirfl of these
is the same with what Plato is wont to call the Ideas
the
niade one harmonious system even out of the most 'dis-
cordant principles, and that he did not utterly destroy,
tho’ he greatly maimed, the power of the evil being—»
so that being by this means reduced to a weak and lan-
guid condition, in the present date of things it blends
and mixes it self with those parts of the world, which
are most liable to vicissitude, and so becomes the cause
of those tremblings and ihakings which we sometimes
feel in the earth, of those great droughts and noxious
winds in the air, as also of hurricanes and thunders:
it moreover in feds the winds and the waters with
peililential diseases, and extends its baneful influence
even as high as the orb of the moon it self, whose light
is sometimes confounded, and sometimes quite darkned
by it—this at leastseems to be the sentiment of the E-
gyptians, when they tell us one while that typho wound-
ed the eye of Orz/r, and then again that he struck it quite
out and swallowed it up, though he afterwards returned
it to the sun. Where his evident, that by the first
iiroke they mean no more than the common monthly
wainings of the moon, and by the total deprivation of
the eye an eclipse of that body, which the sun ac-
cordingly remedies by shining upon it again, as soon
as it has pasied the earth’s ihadow.
56. Now unbuerfal nature, in its utmost and most
perfed extent, may be considered as made up of these
three things, of Intelligence \ of Matter > and of that which
is the result of both these, in the Greek language,,
called Kofmos^ a word which equally signifies either
beauty and order or the world it self—-thefirfl of these
is the same with what Plato is wont to call the Ideas
the