Also, there are other pericopes worth highlighting -Kapyong wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2017 4:57 pm
... Late Augustine describes several types of demons and gods :Augustine the Hippo, City of God, Book X, XXIII wrote: The impiety of Porphyry, which surpasses even the error of Apuleius.
How much more humane and tolerable was the error of Apuleius, your fellow Platonist, who, for all that he held the lunar and sublunar demons in high regard, admitted in spite of himself that they alone are disturbed by the virus of passion and by mental storms!3 When it came, however, to the higher gods in the sky with their position in the realm of aether, whether they were visible and his eyes beheld them shining bright—that is, the sun, the moon and the other luminaries in those regions—or whether they were invisible and merely objects of his thought, he used all his power of argument to set them apart from any stain of such storms of passion.(IIRC, some early Greeks thought dead souls went to the moon, or near the moon.)
- lunar demons
- sublunar demons
- higher gods (un disturbed by passion), including the moon?
Yes, notice the other allegories in that passage^ (highlighted with underlining, broader bolding, or italics)Kapyong wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2017 4:57 pmPhilo sees allegories and likenesses in a lot of scripture, there's one that includes the sublunar region (nothing specifically interesting though.)Philo, The Special Laws, [226] wrote:The high priest is bidden to put on a similar dressd when he enters the inner shrine to offer incense, because its fine linen is not, like wool, the product of creatures subject to death, and also to wear another, the formation of which is very complicated. In this it would seem to be a likeness and copy of the universe. This is clearly shewn by the design. In the first place, it is a circular garment of a dark blue colour throughout, a tunic with a full-length skirt, thus symbolizing the air, because the air is both naturally black and in a sense a full-length robe stretching from the sublunar region above to the lowest recesses of the earth. Secondly, on this is set a piece of woven work in the shape of a breastplate, which symbolizes heaven.
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Ptolemy, 'TetraBiblos I' wrote:
2. That Knowledge by Astronomical Means is Attainable, and How Far.
A very few considerations would make it apparent to all that a certain power emanating from the eternal ethereal substance is dispersed through and permeates the whole region about the earth, which throughout is subject to change, since, of the primary sublunar elements, fire and air are encompassed and changed by the motions in the ether, and in turn, encompass and change all else, earth and water, and the plants and animals therein.
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