[Footnote 102: [Greek: eisi panta puros henos ekgegaota]--_Psell. 24--Plet. 30._]
[Footnote 103: _Proc. in Theol._ 333--_in Tim._ 157.]
[Footnote 104: [Greek: paegaious krataeras]--I have ventured the above translation for this difficult combination from the meaning of the term [Greek: paegae], found elsewhere in the Oracles, in the metaphorical sense of "source" (compare also Plato, _Phaed._ 245 C., 856 D., [Greek: paegae kai archae chinaeseos]--"the source and beginning of motion"), and also from the meaning of [Greek: krataer] (_cratêr_), as "a cup-shaped hollow."
The idea of this Crater is interestingly exemplified in the Twelfth Book of Hermes Trismegistus, called "His Crater, or Monas," as follows:
"10. _Tat._ But wherefore, Father, did not God distribute the Mind to all men?
"11. _Herm._ Because it pleased him, O Son, to set that in the middle among all souls, as a reward to strive for.
"13. _Herm._ Filling a large Cup or Bowl (Crater) therewith, he sent it down, giving also a Cryer or Proclaimer.
"14. And he commanded him to proclaim these things to the souls of men.
"15. Dip and wash thyself, thou that art able, in this Cup or Bowl: Thou that believeth that thou shalt return to him that sent this cup; thou that acknowledgest whereunto thou wert made.
"16. As many, therefore, as understood the Proclamation, and were _baptized_, or dowsed into the _Mind_, these were made partakers of knowledge, and became perfect men, receiving the Mind."
This striking passage explains the mystic "Baptism of Fire," or Mind, whereby man became one with his Divine Monas, which is indeed his "Mother Vortex" or Source.]
[Footnote 106: _Proc. in Theol. Plat._, 171, 172.]
[Footnote 112: The names of these seven flames of the Fire, with their surface translations, are as follows: Kâlî, Dark-blue; Karâlî, Terrible; Mano-javâ, Swift as Thought; Su-lohitâ, Deep-red colour; Su-dhûmra-varnâ, Deep-purple colour; Ugrâ or Sphulinginî, Hot, Passionate, or Sparkling; Pradîptâ, Shining, Clear. These are the literal meanings; the mystic meanings are very different, and among other things denote the septenary prismatic colours and other septenaries in nature.]
[Footnote 113: _Hibbert lectures_, 1887: "Lecture on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians," pp. 179, 180.]