Sophron and Neophilus, or The School of Wisdom

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the more agreeable to me, the more open-heartedly you speak with me, and that I have never allowed myself to be governed by blind attachment to inherited opinions or by the spirit of branding others as heretics and condemning them. I do not believe I am flattering myself too much when I assure you, friend, that I have studied our Horus, like most of his brothers, completely without prejudice, and that if he had achieved what he promises in the preface, I would have been the first to seek those impulses for virtue and reasons for peace of mind in philosophy alone, which I have heretofore had to thank the religion of Christianity for, in addition to philosophy. But I may read the astrognostic star-knowledge related opus work as often as I like; I can still find nothing in it that would even remotely resemble an evident proof that the biblical religion is a whim or a fraud. Now, your reminder, dear Neophilus.

Neoph. You criticize the opponents of religion so much when, in explaining