i., p. 38.
[571] It is necessary before all, to restore the language of
Moses, lost, as I have said, for more than twenty-four
centuries; it must be restored with the aid of Greek and
Latin which chain it to the illusory versions; it is
necessary to go back to its original source and find its
true roots: this enormous work that I have undertaken, I
have accomplished.
[572] Fortun. _apud_ August., _Disput._, ii.; August.,
_Contr. Faust._, l. xxi., c. _ult._
[573] Origène, cité par Beausobre, _Hist. du Manich._, t.
ii., v., ch. 6.
[574] Beausobre, _ibid._, t. ii., p. 346.
[575] Hierocl., _Aur. Carmin._, v. 49 et 50.
[576] Plat., _In_ II. _Alcibiad._
“Accordez-moi, grands Dieux, ce qui m’est nécessaire,
Soit que je pense ou non à vous le demander;
Et si de mes désirs l’objet m’était contraire,
Daignez, grands Dieux, daignez ne pas me l’accorder.”
[577] _Vendidad-Sadê_, 68ᵉ _hâ_, p. 242.
[578] _Zend-Avesta, Jeshts-Sadés_, p. 113.
[579] Hermès, _In Asclep._, c. 9.
[580] Origen., _Contr. Cels._, l. i., p. 19.
[581] Synes., _De Insomn._, p. 134 _et seq._; Niceph. Greg.,
_Schol. in Synes._, p. 360 _et seq._
[582] Voyez Naudé, _Apolog. des grands Hommes accusés de
Magie._
[583] Corn. Cels., _De Re Medic._, l. i., _Præf._
[584] Hiérocl., _Aur. Carm._, v. 48 et 49, et _ibid._, v. 46.
[585] Plat., _In Georgiâ, In Phæd._; Ibid., _De Rep._, l.
vii.; August., _De Civit. Dei_, l. iii., c. 1 et l. x.,
c. 29.
[586] _Acad. des Inscript._, t. xxxi., p. 319.
[587] Procl., _In Tim._, l. v., p. 330; Cicer., _Somn.
Scip._, c. 2, 3, 4, et 6; Hierocl., _In Aur. Carm._, v. 70.
[588] _Veda_, cité par W. Jones, _Asiat. Resear._, t. iv.,
p. 173.
[589] _Premier Pourâna_, intitulé _Matsya_.
[590] _Boushznda-Ramayan._
[591] _Institut. of Menou_, ch. 1, v. 1.
[592] _Shanda-Pourâna._
[593] _Ekhamesha._
[594] _Aurore naissante (Morgens röte im Aufgang: durch
Jacob Böhmen zu_ Amsterdam, 1682), ch. 14, § 41.
[595] Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra.
[596] Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto.
[597] In the _Tao-te-King_ of Lao-Tse, a work which has held
a high reputation among the numerous followers of this
theosophist, one finds that the absolute, universal Being
which he declares can neither be named, nor defined, is
triple. “The first,” he said, “has engendered the second;
the two have produced the third; and the three have made all
things. That which the mind perceives and the eye cannot see
is named _Y_, the absolute Unity, the central point; that
which the heart understands and the ear cannot hear is named
_Hi_, the universal Existence; that which the soul feels and
the hand cannot touch is named _Ouei_, the individual
Existence. Seek not to penetrate the depths of this Trinity;
its incomprehensibility comes from its Unity. This Unity,”
adds Lao-Tse, in another passage, “is named _Tao_, the
Truth; _Tao_ is Life; _Tao_ is to itself both rule and
model. It is so lofty that it cannot be attained; so
profound that it cannot be fathomed; so great that it
contains the Universe; when one looks on high one sees no
beginning; when one follows it in its productions, one finds
in it no end.”
[598] One of the principal dogmas of Fo-Hi is the existence
of one God in three persons, whose image is man. All his
doctrine is limited to leading, by meditation and repression
of the passions, the human ternary to its perfection. This
ternary is composed, according to him, of _Ki_, _Tsing_, and
_Chen_, that is to say, of the material, animistic, and
spiritual principle. It is necessary that, being joined
together, this ternary should make but One. Then its
duration will have no limit and its faculties will be
indestructible. _Voyez_ Duhalde, t. iii., _in fol._, p. 50.
[599] This is noticeable particularly in Bayle.
[600] Herod., _In Clio_, § 131; Strab., l. xv.; Boehm.,
_Mores Gentium._
[601] Pelloutier, _Hist. des Celtes_, t. v., c. 3.
[602] Tacit., _De Morib. Germ._, c. 9; Lactant., _Præm._, p.
5.
[603] August., _De Civit. Dei_, l. iv., c. 31; Clem. Alex.,
l. i., p. 304; _Strom._
[604] Plutar., _In Vitâ Numa_; ibid., _In Mar._; Pelloutier,
_Hist. des Celt._, l. iv., c. i.; Lucan., _Phars._, l. iii.,
v. 412; Clem. Alex., _Cohort. ad Gent._, p. 57.
[605] Euseb., _Prœp. Evang._, l. xiii., c. 12; Henric.
Steph., _Poes. philosop._, p. 78.
[606] Porphyr., _Sent._, no. 10, p. 221; Stanl., _In
Pythag._, p. 775.
[607] Stanley, _De Phil. chald._, p. 1123; Beausob., _Hist.
du Manich._, t. ii., l. ix., c. 1, § 10.
[608] Τρισμέγιστος, thrice greatest.
[609] It is said that this famous table of Emerald was found
in the valley of Hebron, in a sepulchre where it was between
the hands of the cadaver of Thoth himself. Krigsmann, who
assures us that this table must have read in Phœnician and
not in Greek, quotes it a little differently from what one
reads in the ordinary versions. _Voyez Tabula Smaragdina_,
citée par Fabric., _Bibl. Græc._, p. 68.
[610] Hermès, _In Asclep._, c. 9; Jambl., _De Myst. Egypt._,
c. 30; Maimon., _Mor. Nevoch._, part ii., c. 10; Origen,
_Contr. Cels._, l. i.; Beausob., _Hist. du Manich._, t. ii.,
p. 49.
[611] Homère, cité par Maxime de Tyr.; Pline, l. ii., c. 7;
BIBLE, psalm. 73 et 93; Job, c. 23; Habacuc, c. 1; Malach.,
c. 3; Balzac, _Socrate chrétien_, p. 237.
[612] Plucquet, _Dict. des Hérés._, art. PRÉDESTINATIENS.
[613] Noris., _Hist. pelag._, l. ii., c. 15.
[614] Origen, _Comment. in Psalm._, p. 38 et 39.
[615] S. Léon., _Epist. Decret._, ii.; Niceph., l. xvii.,
c. 27.
[616] _Conc. Rom._, Gelas., t. iii.
[617] _Dict. des Hérés._, art. PÉLAGIENS.
[618] Plucquet, _comme ci-dessus_, t. ii., p. 454.
[619] Pelag., _apud_ S. August., _De Nat. et Grat._,
l. iii., c. 9.
[620] Pelag., _apud_ August., _De Grat. Christ._, c. 4.
[621] _Comment. in Aur. Carm._, v. 62.
[622] S. August., _De Grat. Christ._, cité par Plucquet,
_Dict. des Hérés._, art. PÉLAGIENS.
[623] Calvin, _Institut._, l. ii., c. 1 et 2.
[624] _Ibid._, t. ii.
[625] Maimbourg, _Hist. du Calvinisme_, l. i., p. 73.
[626] Origen., _Contr. Cels._, l. iv., p. 207.
[627] Plato, _In Alcibiad._, ii.
[628] Hiérocl., _Aur. Carm._, v. 56.
[629] Hiérol., _In Præm._
[630] _Ibid._
[631] _Ut suprà_, v. 10 et 11.
[632] _Ut suprà_, v. 22 et 24.
[633] _Ut suprà_, v. 54 et 55.
[634] Burnet, _Archæolog._, l. i., c. 14.
[635] _De la Triple Vie de l’Homme_, ch. vi., § 53.
[636] _Ibid._, ch. v., § 56.
[637] Procl., _In Tim._, l. v., p. 330; Plethon, _Schol. ad.
Oracl. magic. Zoroast._
[638] March., _Chron. Can._, p. 258; Beausob., _Hist. du
Manich._, t. ii., p. 495; Huet. _Origenian_, l. ii., q. 6.
[639] _Aur. Carm._, v. 62-77.
[640] Lactant., _De Irâ Dei_, c. 13, p. 548.
[641] _Dict. crit._, art. MANICHÉENS, rem. D.
[642] _Dict. crit._ art. MARCIONITES, rem. E et G.
[643] _Ibid._, art. PAULICIENS, rem. E.
[644] Bayle, _Dict. crit._, art. PAULICIENS, rem. E.
[645] _De Irâ Dei_, c. 13, p. 548.
[646] Basilius, t. i., _In Homil. quod Deus non sit auctor
mali_, p. 369; Bayle. _Dict. crit._, art. MARCIONITES, rem.
E et G.
[647] _Traité de Morale._
[648] _Réponse à deux object. de M. Bayle_, par
Delaplacette, _in_-12, 1707.
[649] _Essai de Théodicée_, part iii., No. 405 _et suiv._
[650] _Essai de Théodicée_, part. iii., No. 405 _et suiv._
[651] Ci-dessus, 25ᵉ Examen.
[652] _Mém. de l’Acad. des Sciences_, ann., 1765, p. 439.
[653] Cité par De Gérando, _Hist. des Systèmes_, t. ii.,
p. 100.
[654] _Hist. des Animaux_, _in_-4, p. 37.
[655] _System des transcendental Idalimus_, p. 441;
_Zeitschrift für die speculative Physick._
[656] Buffon, _Théorie de la Terre_; Linné, _De Telluris
habitab. Increment_; Burnet, _Archæolog._, etc.
[657] _Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. nat._, art. QUADRUPÈDE.
[658] Ovid., _Metamorph._, l. xv.
[659] _Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. nat._, art. QUADRUPÈDE.
[660] _Nouv. Dict. d’Hist nat._, art. ANIMAL.
[661] _Nouv. Dict._, art. NATURE.
[662] Lettre à Hermann.
[663] Charles Bonnet, _Contempl. de la Nat._, p. 16; Lecat.,
_Traité du Mouvement musculaire_, p. 54, art. iii.; Robinet,
_De la Nature_, t. iv., p. 17, etc.
[664] _Nouv. Dict._, art. QUADRUPÈDE.
[665] _Nouv. Dict._, art. ANIMAL.
[666] Cicer., _De Finib._, l. v., c. 5; Aul. Gell., l. xx.,
c. 5; Clem. Alex., _Strom._, l. v.; Hiérocl., _Aur. Carm._,
v. 68; Lil. Gregor. Gyrald., _Pythag. Symbol. Interpret._;
Dacier, _Vie de Pythag._; Barthelemi, _Voyage du Jeune
Anarch._, t. vi., ch. 75, etc.
[667] Jambl., _Vitâ Pythag._, c. 29, 34, et 35.
[668] Porphyr. _apud_ Euseb., _Præp. Evang._, l. iii., c. 7;
ibid., _De Abstinent._, l. iv., p. 308; Jambl., _De Myst.
Egypt._, c. 37.
[669] Clem. Alex., _Stromat._, l. v., p. 556.
[670] Hérod., l. ii., § 36; Clem. Alex., _ut suprà_; Dacier,
_Vie de Pythag._
[671] Hiérocl., _Aur. Carm._, v. 70.
[672] Procl., _In Tim._, l. v., p. 330.
[673] _Apud_ Plutar., _De Audiend. Pœtis._
[674] Pind., _Olymp._, iii.; _Apud_, Plutar., _Consol. ad
Apoll._
[675] Plat., _In Phædon._
[676] Hiérocl., _Aur. Carm._, v. 68.
Transcriber’s Note:
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The Golden Verses, midway through the book, were formated in the
original on facing pages, with Greek, verso, and French, recto;
translation in English was presented as footnotes. The text of the
Greek and French was consolidated as units, the English retained as
footnotes. The numbers (1) through (36) in the English footnotes
relate to the numbered sections of the discussion of the Golden Verses
that follow the poem.
In footnote [125], accent grave over the letter c is noted within
brackets, thus: [`c].In Footnote [226], the x above the o in the third
line of the poem verse in Icelandic is indicated as [=x]o. Anchors
were missing to footnotes [371], [539], and [656]; they were added
where they likely belong.
Corrections to Greek:
ἄγχις to ἄγχιστ
ὅϛις to ὅστις
Corrections to Phoenician/Hebrew:
יוך to יון
Footnote [282] אשר־יהזה to אשר־יהוה