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στολαὶ δ᾽ αἱ μὲν Ἴσιδος ποικίλαι ταῖς βαφαῖς περὶ γὰρ ὕλην ἡ δύναμις
αὐτῆς πάντα γιγνομένην καὶ δεχομένην, φῶς σκότος, ἡμέραν νύκτα, πῦρ
ὕδωρ, ζωὴν θάνατον, ἀρχὴν τελευτήν: ἡ δ᾽ Ὀσίριδος οὐκ ἔχει σκιὰν οὐδὲ ποικιλμόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἓν ἁπλοῦν τὸ φωτοειδές: ἄκρατον
γὰρ ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ ἀμιγὲς τὸ πρῶτον καὶ νοητόν. ὅθεν ἅπαξ ταύτην 1
ἀναλαβόντες ἀποτίθενται καὶ φυλάττουσιν ἀόρατον καὶ ἄψαυστον. ταῖς δ᾽
Ἰσιακαῖς 2 χρῶνται πολλάκις: ἐν [p. 553] χρήσει γὰρ τὰ αἰσθητὰ
καὶ πρόχειρα ὄντα πολλὰς ἀναπτύξεις καὶ θέας αὑτῶν 3 ἄλλοτ᾽ ἄλλως
ἀμειβομένων δίδωσιν. ἡ δὲ τοῦ νοητοῦ καὶ εἰλικρινοῦς καὶ ἁπλοῦ 4 νόησις
ὥσπερ ἀστραπὴ διαλάμψασα τῆς ψυχῆς 5 ἅπαξ
ποτὲ θιγεῖν καὶ προσιδεῖν παρέσχε. 6 διὸ καὶ Πλάτων 7 καὶ Ἀριστοτέλης
ἐποπτικὸν τοῦτο τὸ μέρος τῆς φιλοσοφίας καλοῦσιν, ὡς οἱ 8 τὰ δοξαστὰ καὶ
μικτὰ καὶ παντοδαπὰ
ταῦτα παραμειψάμενοι τῷ λόγῳ, πρὸς τὸ πρῶτον ἐκεῖνο καὶ ἁπλοῦν καὶ
ἄυλον ἐξάλλονται, καὶ θιγόντες ἁπλῶς 9 τῆς
περὶ αὐτὸ καθαρᾶς ἀληθείας οἷον ἐντελῆ 10 τέλος ἔχειν φιλοσοφίαν 11
νομίζουσι.
Plutarch. Moralia. Gregorius N. Bernardakis. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. 2.
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