Magia Adamica

might for that very Relation receive a better Doctrine from him. But this is not all I could say of this Nation, and their Secret Learning, if I were dispos'd to bee their Mercurie. There is not any I believe who praetend to Antiquitie or Philosophie, but have seen that famous Monument, which Paul the Third bestow'd on his Cardinal Petrus Bombus, and was ever since called the Bembixe Table. No doubt but the Hieroglyphics therein contained, were they all reduced into Letters, would make a Volume as ample, as Mysterious. But 'tis not my Designe to comment on Mcmphis, that were to make Brick, and look out the straw withall, AEgypt having no compleat Table but the World, over which her Monuments are Scatter'd. This place then was the Pitcher to the Fountain, for they received their Mysteries immediatly from the Hebrewes, but their Doctrine, like their Nilus, swelling above its private Chanel, did at last over-run the Universe. Jamblicus the Divine, in that excellent Discourse of his de Mysterus, tells us that Pythagoras and Plato had all their learning ex Columnis Mercurii out of the Pillars, or Hieroglyphicall Monuments of Trisinegistus. But the Ancient orpheus in his Poem de Verbo Sacro. where hee speakes of God, hath these words.