The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 322
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The machine reads it as
- 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,
- se
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 322. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0342?run=74