Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 24. Meditate : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 24. MEDITATE UPON MY COUNSELS, LOVE THEM; FOLLOW THEM: TO THE DIVINE VIRTUES WILL THEY KNOW HOW TO LEAD THEE. I have spoken at considerable length of the skeptics; but I have believed it necessary in explaining a dogmatic work, whose...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 8. Be : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 8. Be Sober, Diligent, And Chaste; Avoid All Wrath. In Public Or In Secret Neer Permit Thou Any Evil; And Above All Else Respect Thyself. Pythagoras considered man under three principal modifications, like the Universe; and this is...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 26. Invoke : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 26. BUT BEFORE ALL, THY SOUL TO ITS FAITHFUL DUTY, INVOKE THESE GODS WITH FERVOUR, THEY WHOSE AID, THY WORK BEGUN, ALONE CAN TERMINATE. All the cults established upon the face of the earth have made a religious duty of prayer. This...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 5. Choose : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 5. CHOOSE FOR THY FRIEND, THE FRIEND OF VIRTUE; YIELD TO HIS GENTLE COUNSELS, PROFIT BY HIS LIFE, AND FOR A TRIFLING GRIEVANCE NEVER LEAVE HIM; After the duties which have their source directly in Nature, Pythagoras commends to his...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 29. Thine : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 29. SO THAT, AS TO THY TRUE RIGHTS ENLIGHTENED, THINE HEART SHALL NO MORE FEED ON VAIN DESIRES. That is to say, that the disciple of Pythagoras, having attained through knowledge of himself to that of truth, ought to judge sanely...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 31. Unfortunates : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 31.... THAT THESE UNFORTUNATES SEEK AFAR THE GOODNESS WHOSE SOURCE WITHIN THEY BEAR. The source of all goodness is wisdom, and wisdom begins with the knowledge of oneself. Without this knowledge, one aspires in vain to real goodness...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 37. Thou : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 37. SO THAT, ASCENDING INTO RADIANT ETHER, MIDST THE IMMORTALS, THOU SHALT BE THYSELF A GOD. Here, said Hierocles, in terminating his commentaries, is the blissful end of all efforts: here, according to Plato, is the hope which...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 12 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 12. AS TO THE EVILS WHICH DESTINY INVOLVES, JUDGE THEM WHAT THEY ARE; ENDURE THEM ALL AND STRIVE, AS MUCH AS THOU ART ABLE, TO MODIFY THE TRAITS. THE GODS, TO THE MOST CRUEL, HAVE NOT EXPOSED THE SAGE. I have said that Pythag...
The Golden Verses Of Pythagoras : "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], p. 113 In the original book, the Greek and French were on facing pages with English at the base of the page in a footnote. I have reformatted this slightly for readability by placing the Greek and English in a two column table followed...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 18. Neglect : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 18. NEGLECT NOT THY HEALTH... I had at first the intention of making here some allusion to the manner in which Pythagoras and the ancient sages considered medicine; and I had wished to reveal their principles, p. 194 quite different...
Title Page : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS BY FABRE DOLIVET TRANSLATED AND FOREWORD BY NAYAN LOUISE REDFIELD New York; London, G.P. Putnams Sons [1917] This etext was scanned, proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare , September 2007. This text...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 34. But : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 34. BUT NO: TIS FOR THE HUMANS OF A RACE DIVINE, TO DISCERN ERROR, AND TO SEE THE TRUTH. Hierocles who, as I have said, has not concealed the difficulty which is contained in these lines, has raised it, by making evident that it...
Discourse Upon The Essence And Form Of Poetry : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], p. 88 VII I am beginning with the creator of epopia, with Homer. It is easy to see by the manner in which this divine man blends, from the opening lines of the "Iliad", the exposition and invocation, that, full of a celestial...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 22. Wh : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], p. 198 PERFECTION 22. LET NOT SLEEP EER CLOSE THY TIRED EYES, WITHOUT THOU ASK THYSELF; WHAT HAVE I OMITTED, AND WHAT DONE? Lysis, after having indicated the route by which Pythagoras conducted his disciples to virtue, goes...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 23. Abst : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 23. ABSTAIN THOU IF TIS EVIL; PERSEVERE IF GOOD. But although one may bring the absolute skeptic to agree that a difference between good and evil can indeed exist, as he is forced to agree that one does exist between that which is...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 32 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 32. FOR FEW KNOW HAPPINESS: PLAYTHINGS OF THE PASSIONS, HITHER, THITHER TOSSED BY ADVERSE WAVES, UPON A SHORELESS SEA, THEY BLINDED ROLL, UNABLE TO RESIST OR TO THE TEMPEST YIELD. Lysis shows in these lines what are the greatest...
Discourse Upon The Essence And Form Of Poetry. Part 03 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], V Now, summing up what I have said, it will be found that poetry, entirely intellectual in its origin and destined only to be the language of the gods, owed its first p. 58 developments in Greece to Orpheus, its second to Homer...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 10. Remember : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 10.... REMEMBER THAT A POWER INVINCIBLE ORDAINS TO DIE;... That is to say, remember thou that the fatal necessity to which thou art subjected in reference to the material and mortal part of thyself, according to the sentence...
Discourse Upon The Essence And Form Of Poetry. Part 07 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], p. 7 I When, after the revival of letters in Europe, Chancellor Bacon, legislator of thought, sketched with bold strokes the tree of human knowledge, and brought back each branch of science to that of the moral faculties upon which it...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 36. Letting : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 36.... THOU WHO FATHOMED IT. O WISE AND HAPPY MAN, REST IN ITS HAVEN. BUT OBSERVE MY LAWS, ABSTAINING FROM THE THINGS WHICH THY SOUL MUST FEAR, DISTINGUISHING THEM WELL; LETTING INTELLIGENCE OER THY BODY REIGN. Lysis, speaking always...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 30 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 30. THOU SHALT SEE THAT THE EVILS WHICH DEVOUR MEN ARE OF THEIR CHOICE THE FRUIT.... Undoubtedly one of the most important things for man to understand is the nearest cause of his evils, so that, ceasing from murmuring against...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 20. Too : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 20. TOO MUCH ATTENTION OR TOO LITTLE SHUN; FOR ENVY THUS, TO EITHER EXCESS IS ALIKE ATTACHED. The philosopher, firm in his principle of "juste milieu", wished that his disciples should avoid excess in all things, and that they should...
Discourse Upon The Essence And Form Of Poetry. Part 05 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], III Homer was not the first epic poet in the order of time, but in the order of things. Before him many poets were skilled in Epopia; but no one had known the nature p. 33 of this kind of poetry 1; no one had united the opposed...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 33. God : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 33. GOD! THOU COULDST SAVE THEM BY OPENING THEIR EYES. Lysis here approaches openly one of the greatest difficulties of nature, that which in all time has furnished to the skeptics and to the atheists the weapons that they have...
Discourse Upon The Essence And Form Of Poetry. Part 08 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], p. 1 p. 2 p. 3 p. 4 DISCOURSE UPON THE ESSENCE AND FORM OF POETRY p. 5 DISCOURSE UPON THE ESSENCE AND FORM OF POETRY * "Messieurs:" Before publishing the translation of the "Golden Verses of Pythagoras", such as I have made it...
Untitled : Fabre d'Olivet (b. 1768, d. 1825), a French esoteric writer, originally published this book in 1813. The first section, an essay on esoteric Poetics, was dedicated to the Section of Literature of the Imperial Institute of France. The second portion contains the Greek text of the Golden Verses...
Discourse Upon The Essence And Form Of Poetry. Part 04 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], IV You recall, "Messieurs", that wishing, with Chancellor Bacon, to distinguish the essence and the form of Poetry, I have taken my text from the works of Plato. It is again from this man, justly called divine even by his rivals...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 4. Be : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], PURIFICATION 4. BE A GOOD SON, JUST BROTHER, SPOUSE TENDER, AND GOOD FATHER. The aim of the doctrine of Pythagoras was to enlighten men, to purify them of their vices, to deliver them from their errors, and to restore them to virtue...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 15. Consult : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 15. CONSULT, DELIBERATE, AND FREELY CHOOSE. In explaining this line from a moral standpoint as Hierocles has done, one readily feels that to deliberate and choose in that which relates to moral conduct, consists in seeking for what is...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 3. Revere : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 3.... REVERE THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS HEROES, OF SPIRITS DEMI-GODS.... Pythagoras considered the Universe as an animated All, whose members were the divine Intelligences, each ranked according to its perfections, in its proper...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 21. Luxury : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 21. LUXURY AND AVARICE HAVE SIMILAR RESULTS. ONE MUST CHOOSE IN ALL THINGS A MEAN JUST AND GOOD. Lysis terminates the purgative part of the doctrine of Pythagoras with the trait which characterizes it in general and in particular; he...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 16. Let : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 16. LET FOOLS ACT AIMLESSLY AND WITHOUT CAUSE, THOU SHOULDST, IN THE PRESENT, CONTEMPLATE THE FUTURE. That is to say, thou shouldst consider what will be the results of such or such action and think that these results, dependent up...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 25 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 25. I SWEAR IT BY THE ONE WHO IN OUR HEARTS ENGRAVED THE SACRED TETRAD, SYMBOL IMMENSE AND PURE, SOURCE OF NATURE AND MODEL OF THE GODS. p. 227 Drawn on by my subject, I have forgotten to say that, according to Porphyry, there is...
Translators Foreword : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], p. v TRANSLATORS FOREWORD IN this twentieth century, the sacred books of the ancients are undoubtedly better understood than they were even by their contemporaries, for their authors, by the greatness of their genius, are as much...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. If Thou : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 6. IF THOU CANST AT LEAST: FOR A MOST RIGID LAW BINDS POWER TO NECESSITY. Here is the proof of what I said just now, that Pythagoras recognized two motives of human actions, the first, issuing from a constrained nature, called...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 27. Know : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 27. INSTRUCTED BY THEM, NAUGHT SHALL THEN DECEIVE THEE; OF DIVERSE BEINGS THOU SHALT SOUND THE ESSENCE; AND THOU SHALT KNOW THE PRINCIPLE AND END OF ALL. That is to say, that the true disciple of Pythagoras, placed "en rapport" with...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 11. Th : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 11.... THAT RICHES AND THE HONOURS EASILY ACQUIRED, ARE EASY THUS TO LOSE. Be just: injustice has often easy triumphs; but what remains after death of the riches that it has procured? p. 164 [paragraph continues] Nothing but...
Discourse Upon The Essence And Form Of Poetry. Part 06 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], II Poetry, transported with the seat of religion from the mountains of Thrace to those of Phocis, lost there, as did religion, its primitive unity. Not only did each sovereign pontiff use it to spread his dogmas, but the opposed sects...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 35. Nature : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 35. NATURE SERVES THEM.... Lysis expresses it thus: Nature, by the homogeneity which, as I have stated, constitutes its essence, teaches men to see beyond the range of their senses, transports them by analogy from one regi...
Discourse Upon The Essence And Form Of Poetry. Part 02 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], VI The Greeks and the Romans, as guilty of ingratitude as of injustice, have styled Asia barbarous, without thinking that they thus outraged their Mother, the one from whom both had their origin and their first instructions. Europe...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 1 : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], p. 122 p. 123 EXAMINATIONS OF THE GOLDEN VERSES: EXPLANATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS p. 124 p. 125 EXAMINATIONS OF THE GOLDEN VERSES: EXPLANATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS 1. THE GOLDEN VERSES OF THE PYTHAGOREANS THE ancients had the habit...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 19. Dispense : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 19.... DISPENSE WITH MODERATION, FOOD TO THE BODY, AND TO THE MIND REPOSE. The body, being the instrument of the soul, Pythagoras desired that one should take reasonable and necessary care of it in order to hold it always in conditi...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 13. Even : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 13. EVEN AS TRUTH, DOES ERROR HAVE ITS LOVERS; WITH PRUDENCE THE PHILOSOPHER APPROVES OR BLAMES; IF ERROR TRIUMPH, HE DEPARTS AND WAITS. It is sufficiently known that Pythagoras was the first who used the word Philosopher to designate...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 2. Render : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], p. 128 PREPARATION 2. Render To The Immortal Gods The Consecrated Cult; Guard Then Thy Faith: Pythagoras, of whom a modern savant, otherwise most estimable, has rather thoughtlessly reproached with being a fanatical and superstitious...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 7. Still : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 7. Still It Is Given Thee To Fight And Overcome Thy Foolish Passions: Learn Thou To Subdue Them. It seems that Lysis, foreseeing the wrong inductions that would be drawn from what he had said, and as if he had a presentiment that one...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 17. Th : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 17. THAT WHICH THOU DOST NOT KNOW, PRETEND NOT THAT THOU DOST. INSTRUCT THYSELF: FOR TIME AND PATIENCE FAVOUR ALL. Lysis has enclosed in these two lines the summary of the doctrine of Pythagoras regarding science: according to this...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 9. Speak : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 9. SPEAK NOT NOR ACT BEFORE THOU HAST REFLECTED; BE JUST. By the preceding lines, Lysis, speaking in the name of Pythagoras, had commended temperance and diligence; he had prescribed particularly watching over the irascible faculty...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 28. If : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 28. IF HEAVEN WILLS IT, THOU SHALT KNOW THAT NATURE, ALIKE IN EVERYTHING, IS THE SAME IN EVERY PLACE. I have already said that the homogeneity of Nature was, with the unity of God, one of the greatest secrets of the mysteries...
Examinations Of The Golden Verses. 14. Keep : * "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras", by Fabre d'Olivet, [1917], 14. LISTEN, AND IN THINE HEART ENGRAVE MY WORDS; KEEP CLOSED BOTH EYE AND EAR GAINST PREJUDICE; OF OTHERS THE EXAMPLE FEAR; THINK FOR THYSELF. Lysis continues, in the name of Pythagoras, to trace for the philosopher the course that he...
