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magic. Ennapius, Eustathius, and the Emperor Julian himself, accepted the 

 system of Jamblichus, who, in evoking the religious mysteries of ancient 

 Egypt, wrote a sort of gospel for the thaumaturgists and the magicians. 

 Jamblichus may be said to have expounded the physics of the reign of 

 demons, and Proclus the metaphysics. 



The revolution which then took place in the neo-pagan philosophy caused 



A.RACIMET, 



Fig. 150. Druid carrying the Crescent of the Sixth Day of the Moon, and the Druid Sacrificer. 

 After a Roman Monument of the Second Century. 



the aspirations and tendencies of the ardent and inquiring minds, which, after 

 endeavouring to discover the secrets of creation and of terrestrial existence, 

 sought outside of material nature a source of ideal satisfactions which they 

 could not find in the real world, to converge upon the same end. The eyes of 

 the mind were opened, and human intelligence became enamoured of the 

 occult sciences which brought it into communication with the superior 

 intellects of the invisible world. Thus, upon the one hand, there was a 



