On the Mysteries

As not in everything do the gods manage the things that some obtain; but what are the powers that manage.

As [it] has, as it were, a living creature and the soul of the body, such [is] the organ and the body.

As indeed on the [part] of souls.

The partial souls.

Mind indeed as to see.

...but after the cause from the impossible, perhaps also according to the differences of the bodies to be changed together; and as they have the things from the bodies, and the mixtures exist beforehand by themselves and the births from the bodies because [it is] a reasonable incorporeal distinction; and in addition to these such things, this account is superior to some of the divine [things], and concerning them it was necessary to provide for the superior causes also the things according to the essence of the bodies, and [as] he says to them again; as if one were again, and as [they] are similar, and to be allotted [to] order of those who manage toward the managed, this is clear, that [it] assigns a part to those who will help. For because on such [a case] again he says also the works of the god in the world will cease; and [as] not for every [nature] of living creatures [does] nature [admit] them; that indeed of the bodies, saying but all the more rational, one must concede such a thing. For as [it were] a small thing in the turn of fortune, before it hangs into the body itself, as it were a treasure of goods, such also [the] organ and body [it] has gathered toward itself; and nature shared [with it], following the bodily; which receives it of the [thing] at the end of the things in the living creature. He puts [it] upon the hearts, and of those as wholes containing the beginnings; in all the small [things] the worse, and in the incorporeal, the things of itself; in this way, the parts, indeed, those in the part, do not share in the whole. The things in the circle contain, and the heavenly. Those [things] in the periphery themselves, they do not there [have] the revolution of the ethereal soul, which is the things concerning the always co-existing; and the souls of the worlds, for they in itself do not contain it perfectly. And they are born primarily; and likewise when divisibly likewise perhaps also from them... the generation is interwoven with the superior [things]; therefore of the beast-formed beings in the order, and of those also in the living creature, as an example, of the irrational indeed of the inferior, from the superior to the worse, both in essence and character [they] have come to be before. Likewise, to those who help, it primarily provides the seconds; so that from itself nature and...