190 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XII. 



wore in his capacity of judge of Amenti ; and this 

 attribute shows the final office he held after his re- 

 surrection, and continued to exercise towards the 

 dead, at their last ordeal in a future state. 



I have already stated that the Monad, or single 

 Deity, was placed above and apart from the Triads, 

 and that the great Gods of the Egyptian Pantheon 

 were the deified attributes of the " o?ze." The 

 same idea of a Monad, and even of a triple Deity, 

 was admitted by some of the Greeks into their 

 system of philosophy ; and " Amehus," according 

 to Proclus, *'says, the Demiurge (or Creator) is 

 triple, and the three Intellects are the three kings — 

 he who exists, he who possesses, he who beholds. 

 And these are different ; therefore the First Intel- 

 lect exists essentially, as that ivhich exists. But 

 the Second exists as the Intelligible in him, though 

 possessing that which is before him, and partaking 

 altogether of that, wherefore it is the Second : but 

 the Third exists as the Intelligible in the Second, as 

 did the Second in the First; for every Intellect is the 

 same with its conjoined Intelligible ; and it possesses 

 that wliich is in the Second, and beholds or regards 

 that which is in the First ; for by how much greater 

 the remove, by so much the less intimate is that 

 which possesses. These three Intellects, therefore, 

 he supposes to be the Demiurgi, the same with 

 the three Kings of Plato, and with the three whom 

 Orpheus celebrates under the names of Phanes, 

 Ouranus, and Cronus, though, according to him, 

 the Demiurge is more particularly Phanes."* 



* Procl. in Tim. 2. 93. Con, p. 305. 



