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Mercury Nymph and Bacchus MIKHAIL KOZLOVSKI

Hermes, Athena and Artemis, Italian rchaistic relief of the 1st cent. BCE

"God is that which is beyond all things and to which all things aspire ..." Proclus, The Elements of Theology Proposition 113

Mercury Takes Bacchus to be Brought up by Nymphs, Laurent de la Hyre, 1638, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.

"If a good man sacrifices to the gods and keeps them constant company in his prayers and offerings and every kind of worship he can give them, this will be the best and noblest policy he can follow." Plato, Laws 716d

Mercury Delivers the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs Bénigne Gagneraux French ca. 1789–90

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? — Socrates

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful. — Plotinus Bronze statue of Apollo from Pompeii. National Museum of Naples, Italy.

Hermes at the Pool Henry Tuke Scott