A Discourse On the Worship of Priapus And Its Connection With the Mystic Theolo

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A Discourse On the Worship of Priapus And Its Connection With the Mystic Theolo
Richard Payne Knight
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5 Schol. In Theocrit. Idyll, ii. Ver. 36.
o 98 ON THE WORSHIP placed them in pyramidal monuments, which were the fymbols of fire ; hence come thofe prodigious ftrudures which ftill adorn that country. The foul which was to be emancipated was the divine emanation, the vital fpark of heavenly flame, the principle of reafon and perception, which was perfonified into the familiar daemon, or genius, fuppofed to have the direction of each individual, and to difpofe him to good or evil, wifdom or foll
...y, and all their con- fequences of profperity and adverfity/ Hence proceeded the doftrines, fo uniformly inculcated by Homer and Pindar, ^ of all human adions depending immediately upon the gods ; which were adopted, with fcarcely any variations, by fome of the Chriftian divines of the apoftolic age. In the Pafl:or of Hermas, and Recognitions of Clemens, we find the angels of juftice, penitence, and forrow, infliead of the genii, or daemons, which the ancients fuppofed to direct men's minds and infpire them with thofe parti- cular fentiments.

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