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Chaldean Oracles

And Daemons.
Neoplatonic trans. William Wynn Westcott • c. c. 2nd century CE
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The Intelligible Iynges themselves understand from the Father; by Ineffable counsels being moved so as to understand.
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Because it is the Operator, because it is the Giver of Life Bearing Fire, because it filleth the Life-producing bosom of Hecate; and it instilleth into the Synoches the enlivening strength of Fire, endued with mighty Power.
56
He gave His own Whirlwinds to guard the Supernals, mingling the proper force of His own strength in the Synoches.
57
But likewise as many as serve the material Synoches.
58
The Teletarchs are comprehended in the Synoches.
59
Rhea, the Fountain and River of the Blessed Intellectuals, having first received the powers of all things in Her Ineffable Bosom, pours forth perpetual Generation upon all things.
60
For it is the bound of the Paternal Depth, and the Fountain of the Intellectuals.
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For He is a Power of circumlucid strength, glittering with Intellectual Sections.
62
He glittereth with Intellectual Sections, and hath filled all things with love.
63
Unto the Intellectual Whirlings of Intellectual Fire, all things are subservient, through the persuasive counsel of the Father.
64
O! how the World hath inflexible Intellectual Rulers.
65
The source of the Hecaté correspondeth with that of the Fontal Fathers.
66
From Him leap forth the Amilicti, the all-relentless thunders, and the whirlwind receiving Bosoms of the all-splendid Strength of Hecaté Father-begotten; and He who encircleth the Brilliance of Fire; And the Strong Spirit of the Poles, all fiery beyond.
67
There is another Fountain, which leadeth the Empyraean World.
68
The Fountain of Fountains, and the boundary of all fountains.
69
Under two Minds the Life-generating fountain of Souls is comprehended.
70
Beneath them exists the Principal One of the Immaterials.
71
Father begotten Light, which alone hath gathered from the strength of the Father the Flower of mind, and hath the power of understanding the Paternal mind, and doth instil into all Fountains and Principles the power of understanding and the function of ceaseless revolution.
72
All fountains and principles whirl round and always remain in a ceaseless revolution.
74
Typhon, Echidna, and Python, being the progeny of Tartaros and Gaia, who were united by Uranos, form, as it were, a certain Chaldæan Triad, the Inspector and Guardian of all the disordered fabrications.
75
There are certain Irrational Demons (mindless elementals), which. derive their subsistence from the Aërial Rulers; wherefore the Oracle saith, Being the Charioteer of the Aërial, Terrestrial and Aquatic Dogs.
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The Aquatic when applied to Divine Natures signifies a Government inseparable from Water, and hence the Oracle calls the Aquatic Gods, Water Walkers.
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There are certain Water Elementals whom Orpheus calls Nereides, dwelling in the more elevated exhalations of Water, such as appear in damp, cloudy Air, whose bodies are sometimes seen (as Zoroaster taught) by more acute eyes, especially in Persia and Africa.