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Love how there's never any footnotes on the stuff I actually want clarification on like what do you MEAN
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Love how there's never any footnotes on the stuff I actually want clarification on like what do you MEAN
Orphic Hymn to Hestia
Thomas Taylor Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone original cover art (1997) Source
Hymn to Asklepios
Back in 1775, Thomas Taylor translated the eighty-six hymns of the Orphic Hymns from Greek to English. “Translation” is a rather funky and inappropriate explanation for what he did; he tried to capture something of their meaning in an English meter that was both sacred and meaningful to the people of the era; he also injected a particular slant to the work that was based on his own studies of…
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“Approach ye genuine philosophic few” is a line from Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, written by Thomas Taylor in 1818. The full passage is:
Approach ye genuine philosophic few, The Pythagoric Life belongs to you: But far, far off ye vulgar herd profane; For Wisdom's voice is heard by you in vain: And you, Mind's lowest link, and darksome end, Good Rulers, Customs, Laws, alone can mend.
Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras was originally published in London in 1818. Iamblichus lived from about 250 to about 330.
MONAD by Plotinus, Porphyry, and Proclus – Gallowglass Books
NO ONE FUCKING TOUCH ME IVE BEEN WAITING EIGHT FUCKING YEARS FOR THIS