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# Title: The True Intellectual System Of The Universe (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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C H A P. IV.
had an Arcane Theolooy.
ehis the Author oF the Ouections and AnSIVerS ad OrthodoXOS, FCII
as ancienely had in much greater esteem amonsst che Perpcians.
chan all their other Learnine, and chat cheretore Moses Was a5 well
instructed in this HierogIr phick Lcarning and Metaphrticai Theoloov
OE cheirs, as in their Mathematicks. And FOr OuE parrs We doube noc
buc chat the Mensa istaca larely publishred, concainins (o many Aranse
and unconth Hierorphicles in ic, as Comechins ot chis dubéent 0 Deo-
Noyiae, ehis Areane Theoloey OE che Forprians, and not meer Hicto-
ry as lome imaxine: Thourh the lace consident Oedipus, seeM EO Ar-
rocare eoo much tohimelE, in precendins to such a certain and exact
Interpretation oF it. Nom as ic is realonable co chinle, chac in aII
those Pasan Nacions Where chere as anocher Theology belides che
Vulsar, che principal parrchereoF, was the Doctrine ot one supreme
and 2niversal Deity the Maher of the whole World, (0 Can iE HOE WWeII
be conceived, whracthis aéen and anbéeno and ainrualedrs deonovia
ehis Arcane and Mysterious and Fniematick Theoloey oE che PBY PLIanS,
10 much talbed ot, Chould Bc ocher chan a kind ot Alet aphysicks
concerninz God, a5 one persect Incorporeat Beins, Ihe Original of all
olines.
NVelnom nochins oF any Momene, chac can Be objected against
ehis, Cave only chac erhich Porphyrius, in his F pistle to anebo an P∞yprian
Prielt, vriteth concernins Chaeremon, Xacesipucor pso 75, n, oi à MOI 3S a NIO Fr. FV. Lib
ri req  oecoptecor no Cucriy sita et aexi norcor ndépo 285 117 ) icov
SSt ANSC DEKS XAl D NaM=S NEyOpRCOV n D OVIITNneSVCN  Zodlanoi
eC. Chaeremon and others achnomledee nothine before this Visible and
Corporeal Worid, adledeins for the conntenance of their Opinion, such of
the Ferprians as talk of no other Gods, but the Planets and those stars
that fill up the2odiack, or rise tocether with them, their Decans, and Ho-
roscopes, and Robust Princes, as ther call them; xhose names are also in-
serted intotheir almanacts or Ephemerides, Logether with the times of
their Risnes and Settines, and the Prognosticts or sienifications of fu-
ture Events from them. For he observed that thole Feyptians ioho made
the sun the Demiurous or architect of the Worid, interpreted the Sto-
ries of TES and ORris, and al those other Relicions Fables, into nothine
but stars and Planets and the River Hile, n Sncos nalila cic DVC iNa n
Sder eis aocoudTS5I EaorS 3Cias eeuluddu, and reserred alt thines univer-
sally into Natural or nanimate; nothine into incorporeal and Fivine
Substances. Wrhich Paltase oF Porphyrius concernins Charemon, we
contels Fnsebins lays oreat Aress uxon, endeavourine co malce ad-
vantage oF it, sirst asainst che Fexprians, and chen against the Grecks
and other Pagans, as derivine cheir Religion and Theoloer Fromthem;
Et is manifest from hence, Paich he, that the very Arcane Theolosy of the
Ferprians, Deified nothine but Stars and Planets, and achnomledeed
no Incorporeal Principle or Demiurzick Reason asthe Cause of this 2ni-
verse, out onty the risible dun: And chen he concludes in chismanner.
sec nom what is become of this arcane Theoloey of the Ferptians, that
deifres noihine but senstess Matter or Dead Tnanimate Bodies. But it 15
Well known chat Ensebius cook all advantas es postible, t0 reprelene
the Paxans eo the worie, and render cheir Theologr ridiculous and
ablurd; nevercheless whac he here urseil axainst ihe L’erprians, id
3. c. 4.