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should have the first place ; but the Sensible 'as second, 

 that they should be subject to those (a). That then, borne 

 lower than the Intelligible and weighed down (5), has in 

 itself a wise creative Word." 



Cyrill. Contra. Julian., citing Hermes. 

 " If thou understandest that Only and Sole God, thou 

 wilt find nothing impossible, for it is all Virtue. Think 

 not that it may be in some one, say not that it is out 

 of some one. It is without termination, it is the termina- 

 tion of all. Nothing contains It, for It contains all in 

 Itself. What difference is there between the body and 

 the incorporeal, the created and the uncreated, that which 

 is subject to the Necessity, and that which is free, between 

 the things terrestrial and the things celestial, the things 

 corruptible and the things Eternal ? Is it not that the one 

 exists freely and that the others are subject to Necessity ? 

 That which is below is imperfect and corruptible." 



Cyrill. Contra. Julian., Lib. v. 1766. 



"The Egyptians also have to tell, numbering among 

 themselves names of not few wise men, that they had 

 many, who were of succession after Hermes. I speak of 

 Hermes, him having sojourned third x in Egypt." 



X. 



SUIDAS (under Alexander Comnenus), Lexicon. Vocc 

 Hermes. [Edit. Godofredus Bernardy (after Gaisford) 

 Halis et Brunsvigae, 1853.] 



" HERMES the Trismegistus. He was an Egyptian sage, 

 and flourished before Pharaoh. He was called Trisme- 



(a) viroffryx.?!. (&) 



1 Pietschmann, in Ms dissertation on Hermes Trismegistus (Engel- 



mann, Leipzig, 1875), attempts (pp. 51-54) to determine who these 



three Hermes were: one contemporary with Enoch and Seth; the 



