This, he says, is he who has authority over life and death of whom he says it is written: “Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron.”[59] But the poet wishing to adorn the incomprehensible [Sidenote: p. 154.] (part)[60] of the blessed nature of the Word, makes his rod not iron but golden. And he charms to sleep the eyes of the dead, he says, and again awakens those sleepers who are stirred out of sleep and become suitors. Of these, he says, the Scripture spoke: “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise and Christ shall shine upon thee.”[61] This is the Christ, he says, who in all begotten things is the Son of Man, impressed (with the image) by the Logos of whom no image can be made.[62] This, he says, is the great and unspeakable mystery of the Eleusinians “_Hye Cye_”[63] seeing that all things are set under him, and this is the saying: “Their sound went forth into all the earth,”[64] just as “Hermes waved the rod and they followed gibbering.”-- (Homer, _Odyssey_, XXIV, 5-7.) still meaning the souls as the poet shows, saying figuratively:-- “And even as bats flit gibbering in the secret recesses Of a wondrous cave when one has fallen down out of the rock From the cluster....”-- (_Ibid._, XXIV, 9 _seq._) [Sidenote: p. 155.] Out of the rock, he says, is said of Adamas. This, he says, is Adamas, “the corner-stone which has become the head of the corner.”[65] For in the head is the impressed brain of the substance from which every fatherhood is impressed.[66] “Which Adamas,” he says, “I place at the foundation of Zion.”[67] Allegorically, he says, he means the image of the Man. But that Adamas is placed within the teeth, as Homer says, “the hedge of teeth,”[68] that is, the wall and stockade within which is the inner man, who has fallen from Adamas the arch-man[69] on high who is (the rock) “cut without cutting hands”[70] and brought down into the image of oblivion,[71] the earthly and clayey. And he says that the souls follow him, the Word, gibbering. Even so the souls gibbered as they fared together, But he went before, that is, he led them, “Gracious Hermes led them adown the dark ways.”-- (_Odyssey_, XXIV, 9 ff.) [Sidenote: p. 156.] that is, he says, into eternal countries remote from all evil. For whence, says he, did they come? “By Ocean’s flood they came and the Leucadian cliff And by the Sun’s gates and the land of dreams.”-- (_Odyssey_, _ubi cit._)