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Chapter VIII.—Pallas
and Hera.
“And this, when it had reached the summit of
the æther, was devoured by it (moisture being mixed with heat, so
to say); and causing in it that ceaseless palpitation, it begat
intelligence, which they call Pallas from this palpitating
(pallesthai).1069
| 1069 [With chaps.
8–10 compare Recognitions, x. 32, 34.—R.] | And this is artistic wisdom, by which
the ætherial artificer wrought out the whole world. And from
all-pervading Zeus, that is, from this very hot æther, air
(aer) extends all the way to our earth; and
this they call Hera. Wherefore, because it has come below the
æther, which is the purest substance (just as a woman, as regards
purity, is inferior), when the two were compared to see which was the
better, she was rightly regarded as the sister of Zeus, in respect of
her origin from the same substance, but as his spouse, as being
inferior like a wife.
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