”Since the spirit is in itself something thinking and immaterial, it would have a savage and incommunicable beauty if its interior movement had not been capable of being revealed by an ingenious invention[...]"

”Since the spirit is in itself something thinking and immaterial, it would have a savage (αμιχτον) and incommunicable beauty if its interior movement had not been capable of being revealed by an ingenious invention (ἐπίνοια). It is to this end that this organic constitution was necessary, so that the interior movement might succeed in being interpreted (ἑρμηνευση) through the varied formation of articulations by touching, like a plectrum, the organs destined for the voice.” (De Op. Hom. tr. Balthasar, p. 60)

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