Verify Citation - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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If man were created after the image of God, it was not as a corporeal image, “since God is not human in appearance and the human body is not godlike. No, the likeness meant by Moses pertains to the mind as ruler of the soul, for the one archetypal Mind of the universe was the model after which the mind in every individual was patterned. … The mind is unseen but sees all things itself, and while it reveals the essences of all other things, it keeps its own essence hidden. … After it has been raised on the wing and has observed the air and all its properties, it is borne still higher to the ether and to the revolutions of the heavens and is whirled round with the choral dances of the planets and the fixed stars in accordance with the laws of perfect music, following the love of wisdom which guides its footsteps.” (Philo,[1] “On the Creation,” 69–71, discussed in Miller[2] 1986: pp. 56f.).
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- ↑ Philo of Alexandria, “On the Creation,” in Philo: In Ten Volumes (And Two Supplementary Volumes), F.H. Colson (tr.), Vol. 1 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1929), pp. 55–57, 69–71.
- ↑ James L. Miller, Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity (Toronto: 1986), pp. 56f.
