On the Mysteries

gods
demons
heroes
souls
pure.

with a unique honor, a complex union that is not confused, as if able to give creation to itself; nor as if you declare it as some ambiguous act; nor as if it were of a master who truly judges and decides; this is not worthy to be tested. For we are encompassed by them more than we are; and we are filled by it. And what we are, in it we have the god ever-flowing?. Whence also the final word regarding the beings joined with the gods—I mean the superior races, demons, heroes, and pure souls—the one concerning the souls is defined as always needing essence. To be removed from the best good of the same, and one specifically from the calculations, to oppose? signaling toward the divine; for such a thing is alien to the life and discourse of the soul. But as for the others, it carries away only that which is in itself already, as it befits the sweet?. It seems to grasp it uniquely with the divine, by the same notions of the gods, acting sympathetically, innate to it toward them; so that the gold in it remains always the same. So also the soul, toward the same leading, will bind its own animals. It stops the doubt of some syllogisms ending in darkness?, but in no way does it declare that it shares in an essence above these, but rather in evident and indivisible thoughts, which another voice honors as these lively, exceptional ones of the gods. Nor does it seem to consider these the same as the gods in it, from the knowledge of the commoners, through paths from the opposites... that it is not in any way similar?. For sense perception itself is answered by every allotment; and it is not in the being allowed to know, in the being born arrogantly; but in that which has existed from eternity, unique in the honor. Concerning, then, the first principle in us, from which those who say anything regarding? must start.