Magia Adamica

no contemptible Testimonies. Aristobulus, who lived in the Dayes of the Machabies, and was himself a Jew, writes to Ptolomie Philometor King of AEgypt, and affirmes that the Pentateuch, or five Books of Moses, were translated into Greek before the Time of Alexander the Great, and that they came to the hands of Pythagoras and Plato. Indeed Numenius the Pythagorean cals Plato, Mosen Atticâ linguâ loquentem, Moses speaking in the Greek Dialect; by which he minded not a similitude of style, but a Conformitie of principles. There is a storie of Clearchus the Peripatetic in his first de somno, how true I know not, but the Substance of it is this. He brings in his Master Aristotle relating, how he met with a very reverend and learned Jew, with whom he had much Discourse about Things Natural and Divine, but his special Confession is, That he was much rectified by him in his Opinion of the Deitie. This perhaps night be, but certainly it was after he writ the Organon, and his other lame Discourses, that move by the Logical Crutch. Now if you will aske me, what Greek did ever prosesse any Magicall Principles? To this I answer, that if you bate Aristotle and his Ushers, who are borne like the Insecta, ex putredine, out of their Masters Corruptions; Greece yeelded