{"collection":"grim","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/grim/magus/ma253.htm","path":"grim/magus/ma253.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/grim/magus/ma253.htm","text":"BIOGRAPHIA ANTIQUA;\nOR,\nAN ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND WRITINGS\nOF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN\nMAGI, CABALISTS, AND PHILOSOPHERS,\nDISCOVERING THE\nPRINCIPLES AND TENETS OF THE FIRST FOUNDERS\nOF THE\nMAGICAL AND OCCULT SCIENCES:\nWHEREIN THE MYSTERIES OF THE PYTHAGORIANS, GYMNOSOPHISTS, EGYPTIANS, BRAGMANNI, BABYLONIANS, PERSIANS, ETHIOPIANS, CHALDEANS, &c. ARE DISCOVERED:\nIncluding a particular and interesting Account of\nZOROASTER, THE SON OF OROMASIUS\nTHE FIRST INSTITUTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY FIRE, AND MAGIC;\nLIKEWISE, OF\nHERMES TRISMEGISTUS, THE EGYPTIAN\n,\nAnd other Philosophers, famous for their Learning, Piety, and Wisdom\n.\nTO WHICH IS ADDED\nA SHORT ESSAY,\nProving that the First Christians were Magicians, who foretold, acknowledged, and worshipped\nTHE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD,\nAND\nFIRST FOUNDER OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.","title":"The Magus, Book II: Biographia Antiqua: Title Page","type":"page"}