Theater of Fate

which finally J. A. Fabritius edited in its entirety from the Gudian Library in Hamburg, 1700, in quarto, and with his Latin Library, London, 1703, in octavo.

Regarding

JAMBLICHUS,

born in Chalcis, a famous city of Coele-Syria, he learned the first foundations of letters and wisdom under Anatolius; afterwards, by the institution and discipline of Porphyry, he turned out to be as great in philosophy as any of his times. Indeed, it is persuaded to many that no one understood the mind of Pythagoras and Plato more correctly than he. Therefore, his monuments of genius are excellent, and especially his work filled with recondite erudition, On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, in which he imagines Porphyry asking the priest Abammon among the Egyptians many things that pertain to God, to angels, to demons, to souls, to providence, to fate, and to all parts of philosophy.

Jamblichus responds to these under the persona of Anebon, a disciple of Abammon, and prolixly produces the opinions of ancient philosophers regarding these matters. Porphyry's letter, as much as remains of it, was preserved by Eusebius, Theodoret, and Augustine. Jamblichus's work was first edited in Greek and cleanly by Thomas Gale.