XXXIV. How a Soul Continuing a Long Time Here
XXXIV. How a Soul Continuing a Long Time Here
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XXXIV. How a Soul Continuing a Long Time Here

XXXIV. HOW A SOUL CONTINUING A LONG TIME HERE.

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When they would denote a soul continuing a long time here, 2 or an inundation, they depict the PHŒNIX the bird: 3 and they denote the soul by it, because this is the longest lived of all creatures in the world; and an inundation, because the Phœnix is a symbol of the sun, than which nothing is greater in the universe. For the sun passes over all and

p. 55

scrutinises all, hence he is called . . . . . Polys 1 (much).

Footnotes
  1. 54:1

    The Phœnix.

  2. 54:2

    Qy. 'When they would denote the soul, or an expiring cycle of time, or an inundation?' Of the two first the Phœnix was certainly a symbol, and possibly of the last, on account of its periodical return.

  3. 54:3

    The Phœnix the Bird, to distinguish it from the Phœnix the Palm branch.—See Ch. 7.

  4. 55:1

    Phanes? Apollo.

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