cording to which their first birth would be one
and the same for all,--no one should suffer a disadvantage at his hands;
they were to be sown in the instruments of time severally adapted to
them, and to come forth the most religious of animals; and as human
nature was of two kinds, the superior race would hereafter be called
man. Now, when they should be implanted in bodies by necessity, and be
always gaining or losing some part of their bodily substance, then in
the first place it would be necessary that they should all have in
them one and the same faculty of sensation, arising out of irresistible
impressions; in the second place, they must have love, in which pleasure
and pain mingle; also fear and anger, and the feelings which are akin or
opposite to them; if they conquered these they would live righteously,
and if they were conquered by them, unrighteously. He who lived well
during his appointed time was to return and dwell in his native star,
and there he would have a blessed and congenial existence. But if he
failed in attaining this, at the second birth he would pass into a
woman, and if, when in that state of being, he did not desist from evil,
he would continually be changed into some brute who resembled him in the
evil nature which he had acquired, and would not cease from his toils
and transformations until he followed the revolution of the same and the
like within him, and overcame by the help of reason the turbulent and
irrational mob of later accretions, made up of fire and air and water
and earth, and returned to the form of his first and better state.
Having given all these laws to his creatures, that he might be guiltless
of future evil in any of them, the creator sowed some of them in the
earth, and some in the moon, and some in the other instruments of
time; and when he had sown them he committed to the younger gods the
fashioning of their mortal bodies, and desired them to furnish what
was still lacking to the human soul, and having made all the suitable
additions, to rule over them, and to pilot the mortal animal in the
best and wisest manner which they could, and avert from him all but
self-inflicted evils.

When the creator had made all these ordinances he remained in his own
accustomed nature, and his children heard and were obedient to their
father's word, and receiving from him the immortal principle of a mortal
creature, in imitation of their own creator they borrowed portions of
fire, and ea