Plut. Mor., Isis and Osiris 59 — Of Isis and Osiris, or of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt

Plut. Mor., Isis and Osiris 59 — Of Isis and Osiris, or of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch; served verbatim

But where Typhon falls in and touches upon her extreme parts, it is there she appears melancholy, and is said to mourn, and to look for certain relics and pieces of Osiris, and to array them with all diligence; she receiving all things that die and laying them up within herself, as she again brings forth and sends up out of herself all such things as are produced. And those proportions, forms, and effluxes of the God that are in the heaven and stars do indeed continue always the same; but those that are sown abroad into mutable things, as into land, sea, plants, and animals, are resolved, destroyed, and buried, and afterwards show themselves again very often, and come up anew in several different productions. For which reason the fable makes Typhon to be married to Nephthys, and Osiris to have accompanied with her by stealth. For the utmost and most extreme parts of matter, which they call Nephthys and the end, is mostly under the power of the destructive faculty; but the fecund and salutary power dispenses but a feeble and languid seed into those parts, which is all destroyed by Typhon, except only what Isis taking up doth preserve, cherish, and improve.

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Of Isis and Osiris, or of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, Plutarch — translated by William Baxter (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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