Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume I
David Hume · en
For sublime things, he says, must needs be spoken, but they are spoken
everywhere, lest “hearing they should not hear and seeing they should
see not.”[80] For if, he says, the sublime things were not spoken, the
cosmos could not have been framed. These are the three ponderous words:
Caulacau, Saulasau, Zeesar.[81] Caulacau the one on high, [Sidenote:
p. 159.] Adamas, Saulasau, the mortal nature below, Zeesar the Jordan
which flows back on its source. This is, he says, the masculo-feminine
Man who is in all things, whom the ignorant call the triple-bodied
Geryon--as if Geryon were “flowing from Earth”[82]--and the Greeks
usually “the heavenly horn of Mên”[83] because he has mingled and
compounded all things with all. “For all things, he says, were made
through him and apart from him not one thing was made. That which was
in him is life.”[84] This, he says is the life, the unspeakable family
of perfect men which was not known to the former generation. But the
“nothing” which came into being apart from him is the world of form;
for it came without him by the 3rd and 4th.[85] This, he says, is the
cup Condy in which the king drinking, divineth. This, he says, is that
which was hidden among the fair grains of Benjamin. And the Greeks also
say the same with raving lips:--
“Bring water, bring wine, O boy
Intoxicate me, plunge me into sleep.
The cup tells me
[Sidenote: p. 160.] What I must become.”[86]--
(_Anacreon_, XXVI, 25, 26.)
It was enough, he says, that only this should be known to men that
Anacreon’s cup spoke mutely an unspeakable mystery. For mute, he says,
was Anacreon’s cup which says Anacreon, tells him with mute speech what
he must become, that is spiritual not fleshly, if he hears the hidden
mystery in silence. And this is the water in those fair nuptials which
Jesus changed by making wine. This, he says, is the mighty and true
beginning of the signs which Jesus did in Cana in Galilee and made
known the kingdom of the heavens. This, he says, is the kingdom of the
heavens within us, as a treasure as the leaven hidden within three
measures of meal.[87]