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As Seleucus narrates, Hermes describes the principles that rank as wholes in two myriads of books; or, as we are informed by Manetho, he perfectly unfolded these principles in three myriads six thousand five hundred and twenty-five volumes... Our ancestors dedicated the inventions of their wisdom to this deity, inscribing all their own writings with the name of Hermes. -- IAMBLICUS.
Still through Egypt's desert places / Flows the lordly Nile, / From its banks the great stone faces / Gaze with patient smile. / Still the pyramids imperious / Pierce the cloudless skies, / And the Sphinx stares with mysterious, / Solemn, stony eyes.