On the Worship and Love of God: Treating of the Birth of the Earth (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from On the Worship and Love of God: Treating of the Birth of the Earth

1. Walking once alone in a pleasant grove, for the sake of composing my thoughts, and observing that the trees.

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As the Author, in the following work, makes frequent references to ancient mythology, and on several occasions adopts its terms, as well calculated, by reason of that interior wisdom in which they were grounded, to convey his own ideas, it is thought proper to prefix here an explication of those terms, which otherwise, to the unlearned reader, at least, must of necessity appear obscure and unintelligible. The following alphabetical Glossary is accordingly drawn, up by the Translator.

Aganippe - a famous well or spring in Bæotia, which rose out of Mount Helicon, and is hence applied by our Author to denote intelligence, while its nymphs represent the affections of such intelligence.

Apollinary - sports so called in honor of Apollo, and of his victory over the serpent Pytho, and hence applied by our Author to denote the sports of folly or insanity in the human mind, instituted in honor of the supposed victory which it gains over wisdom and intelligence.

Cerberus - a dog with three heads and as many necks, which, according to ancient mythology, was the keeper of Pluto's palace in hell, hence applied by our Author to represent the prince of darkness, and to express the terrible form under which he appears.

Erebus and Orcus - ancient names given to the infernal abodes.

Erichtons - the word may be applied either as derived from Erichtho, a noted enchantress, or from Erichthonious, the fourth king of Athens, who is said to have had the feet of a dragon, and who took his name from contention.

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