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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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hoth, ibe Ferprian Tlermes.
BOOK l
Opinion os Knomledee, by a Mulcitarious Rabble oF Indigested Noti
ons, than the Truth thereos. Moreover Cince it is certain, that the
FErPTIANS ErC FamOuS FOx Literature betore the OrcekS, they must
OFnCCCTE have IOMC OnC OP MOre Founders oE L carnins amongsE
them, 29 the Orceks had; and Thoth is the Oplv or F irst Pertonce
lebraced amons them upon thisaccompe, in remembrance oF Wrhom
ehie First Moneth oF the Pear as called by that Name. WVhich Thoth
I5 generally suppoled tohare lived in chetimes oF che PatriarcHS, OF
considerably belore Moses; Moses himsels beins Caid to hare been in-
structed in charLcarnins, wrhich omed its Original to him.
Again, Delideschis Thoth Or Thenth, who was called the First Hermes,
the Lorptians had also aftermards, another eminent AdrAnCEE OL
RCHOTer OF Learnins, who was called sae Feunc, The Second
Eermes; They pertaps suppolins the Soul oF Thoth oxthe First Her-
mes tohave comeinco him by Tranlmigration; BuFHIS PTOPCTEBYP
eian Name WaS Siphoas, aS Syncellus OUE OF Manet ho INFOrMS US;
ZIPCOAS, o n FepS, yos HaeaISs, Siphoas (who is also FermeS) ihe
son of Vulcan. This ishe, irho is Paid to hare been theFather ol
Tat, andto have bCen SUIEAmEd ZCLGHEZSO, Ter Maximus, (hebC
ins C0 Cyled by Manetho, Jamblichus and Others.) Andheis placec
by Ensebius in che Piltieth pear afcex ehe Praelitis Exitus, Though prO.
Bably TOmeHAETOOF arIY. TRC FOTMEE OE Che(C TNO Hermes, Wad
AHE InVENEOF OF ArtS and Sciences, che Lacter, the Restorer and Ad
VanCEx OF them: the Pirst errote in Fieroe lyphicks upon PIlIarS,
et in Zuecytiur yn, (a5 the lcarned ralessus conjectures it Mould be
read, instead oF Znecadmn.) Wtrich Syringes What they vere, Am.
Marcellinus Will instrust us; The Sccond Interpreced and Tranllatee
those Hierosphicks, compolins many Bools in several Arts and Scl
ences; the Number WhereoF set donn by Jamblichus, must neecs
Be Fabulous, unless it be understood oF Paragraphs, or Verles.
Wrtich Trismesistick Or Eermerick B0OkS, vere Paid to be care
Fully preserred by che Priests, in chic Inceriour Rcceses OF thetL
Temples.
But Besdes che Elieroe Iyphicks written by the First Fermes, and thC
Bools compolcdbr theSccond (irtro as called allo Trilmesilt)
cannotbe doubred, buc chac chere vere Many ocher Books irittet
by the FOrprian Priests succesirely in several AgCS. And Jambh
chus intorms us, in che begimnins oE tis MyCeries, That Hermes I
Cod of Eloquence and President or Patron of al true Knomledee cota
cernine the Bods, was formeriy accounted Common to all the Priests:
insomuch, that ra ao, s  oopiac denuala avres averideoar, FuS navla
rae oincia ovyso duaela Eroruaoiles, they de dicated the Inventions os thela
Wrisdom to him, entitlins their onn B0ohs to Flermes Trisinesile
Non chouph Onc Realon hercot, mizhe probably have bcen thous
to hare been chis, becaule thole Books vere suppoled to hare bect
Written, accordins corhe Tenour oF che OId Fermetick Or Trismest
stick Doctrine; Vet Zamblichus here acquaintsus wich che chiet Crouve
OF it, namely chis, chac chouxh Eermes was once aMOrtal Man, yC
he wasastervard Deisied by the FBecians (wrhich is tescitied also b)
etato,
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