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Iamblichus^[1] on the Mysteries, &c.

THE

ANSWER OF THE PRECEPTOR ABAMMON

TO THE

EPISTLE OF PORPHYRY TO ANEBO,

AND A

SOLUTION OF THE DOUBTS CONTAINED IN IT.

SECTION I.

CHAP. I.

Hermes, the God who presides over language, was formerly very properly considered as common to all priests; and the power who presides over the true science concerning the Gods

↑ The following testimony of an anonymous Greek writer, prefixed to the manuscript of this treatise, which Gale published, proves that this work was written by Iamblichus: Ιστεον οτι ο φιλοσοφος Ηροκλος υπομνηματιζων τας του μεγολου Ηλωτινου εννεαδας, λεγει οτι ο αντιγραφον εις την

[p17_r1-1] The following testimony of an anonymous Greek writer, prefixed to the manuscript of this treatise, which Gale published, proves that this work was written by Iamblichus: Ιστεον οτι ο φιλοσοφος Ηροκλος υπομνηματιζων τας του μεγολου Ηλωτινου εννεαδας, λεγει οτι ο αντιγραφον εις την

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