[479] “Josephus against Apion,” ii., p. 1079.
[480] See chapter ix., p.
[481] “Illusion; matter in its triple manifestation in the earthly, and the astral or fontal soul, or the body, and the Platonian dual soul, the rational and the irrational one,” see next chapter.
[482] “Perfection of Wisdom.”
[483] Porphyry gives the credit to Plotinus his master, of having been united with “God” six times during his life, and complains of having attained to it but twice, himself.
[484] Orpheus is said to have ascribed to the grand cycle 120,000 years of duration, and Cassandrus 136,000. See Censorinus: “de Natal. Die;” “Chronological and Astronomical Fragments.”
[485] W. and E. Denton; “The Soul of Things,” vol. i.
[486] See the “Cosmogony of Pherecydes.”
[487] See a few pages further on the quotation from the “Codex of the Nazarenes.”
[488] See Plato’s “Timæus.”