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86 PLUTARCH’S Treatife of
does the salutary, the beneficent, and the orderly mo-
tion of the universe sometimes, as it were by persua-
sion, convert, draw over to it self, and soften the more
disorderly and Typhoni c one; which however soon re-
turns to it self again, and falls into its former oppoiltion
and contrariety to such motions as are good and gene-
rally benficial-- But there is hill another piece of E-
gyptian mythology related by Eudoxus concerning
Psupiter—as that his legs originally grew together, so
that he was not able to go abroad, but lived altogether
in solitude at home aihamed of himself as it were; till
at length Ist,sy cutting them asunder, restored him to the
due use of these limbs by enabling him to walk up-
right-—but this is of exadly the same import with the
other parts of the dory, and designed to represent to us,
that the mind and reason of the supreme God, which in
its own nature is invisible to us, and dwelling in obscu-
rity, by putting it self into motion proceeds to the
production of other Beings.
63. In like manner, the Siftrum is designed by them
to represent to us, that every thing mud be kept in
continual agitation, and never cease from motion; that
they ought to be rowzed and well-ihaken, whenever
they begin to grow drowzy as it were, and to droop
in their motion. For, say they, the sound of these Siftra
averts and drives away Typho·, meaning hereby, that
as corruption clogs and puts a slop to the regular course
of nature; so generation, by the means of motion,
loosens it again, and redores it to its former vigour.
Now the outer sur sace of this indrument is of a convex
figure, as within its circumference are contained thole
does the salutary, the beneficent, and the orderly mo-
tion of the universe sometimes, as it were by persua-
sion, convert, draw over to it self, and soften the more
disorderly and Typhoni c one; which however soon re-
turns to it self again, and falls into its former oppoiltion
and contrariety to such motions as are good and gene-
rally benficial-- But there is hill another piece of E-
gyptian mythology related by Eudoxus concerning
Psupiter—as that his legs originally grew together, so
that he was not able to go abroad, but lived altogether
in solitude at home aihamed of himself as it were; till
at length Ist,sy cutting them asunder, restored him to the
due use of these limbs by enabling him to walk up-
right-—but this is of exadly the same import with the
other parts of the dory, and designed to represent to us,
that the mind and reason of the supreme God, which in
its own nature is invisible to us, and dwelling in obscu-
rity, by putting it self into motion proceeds to the
production of other Beings.
63. In like manner, the Siftrum is designed by them
to represent to us, that every thing mud be kept in
continual agitation, and never cease from motion; that
they ought to be rowzed and well-ihaken, whenever
they begin to grow drowzy as it were, and to droop
in their motion. For, say they, the sound of these Siftra
averts and drives away Typho·, meaning hereby, that
as corruption clogs and puts a slop to the regular course
of nature; so generation, by the means of motion,
loosens it again, and redores it to its former vigour.
Now the outer sur sace of this indrument is of a convex
figure, as within its circumference are contained thole