140 HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 



curius Trismegistus, Master of all physical philosophy 

 thought out." , 



[The Author of the " Poemandres," however, distinctly' 

 states several times that " ro vav" was created by The 

 One God]. 



Hid., De Anima, ch. xxxiii. 



"Even if Souls have permanency enough to remain 

 unchanged until the judgment, a point which Hermes 

 Egyptius recognised when he said that the Soul after its 

 separation from the body was not dissipated back into the 

 Soul of the Universe, but retained permanently its dis- 

 tinct individuality. 'In order that it might render/ to 

 use his own words, ' an account to The Father of those 

 things which it has clone in the body.' " 



III 



CYPRIAN (born circa A.D. 200 ; martyred A.D. 258). Baluze 

 Edit. Paris, 1726. De Idolorum Vanitate, p. 220. 



" HERMES TRISMEGISTUS unum Deum loquitur eumque 

 incomprehensibilem atque inestimabilem confitetur." 

 " Hermes Trismegistus speaks of One God, and confesses 

 Him to be incomprehensible and inestimable." 



IV. 



EUSEBIUS PAMPHILI (bom circa 264), Hist. Lib., v. ch. 8, 

 lias a clear quotation from the " Poemandres " of Hermes 

 (whom, however, he probably confounds with the Shepherd 

 Hernias) " ou ftovov fa o/dsv, dXXa xal d'Tfods^rcx,! (o 

 rqv rov Hoifttvog ypcKprjV Xeyuv, KaXwg ovv siffev q ypatpr) TJ 

 IIpuiTov trdvruv rtiffrtvffov on sig sdnv o 0s^g, o ra vdvra, xritfa? xa/ 

 xarapr/Vag, xa/ r& %%?" 



