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Chapter
V.—Kronos and Rhea Explained.
“Now you must think of Kronos as time
(chronos), and Rhea as the flowing
(rheon) of the watery substance.1064
| 1064 [Comp.
Recognitions, x. 17, 31, 32.—R.] | For the whole body of matter was
borne about for some Time, before it brought
forth, like an egg, the sphere-like, all-embracing heaven (ouranos), which at first was full of productive marrow, so
that it was able to produce out of itself elements and colours of all
sorts, while from the one substance and the one colour it produced all
kinds of forms. For as a peacock’s egg seems to have only
one colour, while potentially it has in it all the colours of the
animal that is to be, so this living egg, conceived out of infinite
matter, when set in motion by the underlying and ever-flowing matter,
produces many different forms. For within the circumference a
certain living creature, which is both male and female, is formed by
the skill of the indwelling divine spirit. This Orpheus calls
Phanes, because when it appeared (phaneis) the
universe shone forth from it, with the lustre of that most glorious of
the elements, fire, perfected in moisture. Nor is this
incredible, since in glowworms nature gives us to see a moist
light.
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