Notes from Ralph Cudworth on Plutarch and the 'Persian or Zoroastrian trinity' Isaac Newton c. 218 words The Newton Project Falmer 2008 Newton Project, University of Sussex

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 c. early 1690s, in English with quotations in Greek, c. 272 words, 1 p.

Notes taken from Ralph Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) on ancient ideas about the Trinity.

See also Clark Library Ms. fN563Z and H1330-31 for Newton's own copies of Plutarch (the Cudworth volume was apparently not from his own library).

Taken from Ralph Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678), pp. 287 and 290.

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in English with quotations in Greek

 R.16.38. 436A, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK UKCambridgeTrinity College Library R.16.38. 436A Part of SL296

The entire lot (22 pp.) was bought at the Sotheby sale by W. Manning for £8.10s. The rest of it is now in the American Philosophical Society.

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 c. early 1690s England English Greek Latin Holograph ReligionDoctrine Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Tagged transcription completed by Jeremy Schildt Checked by John Young Proofed by Robert Iliffe Minor correction to metadata input by John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins 436A

The first supreme God was acknowledged by Artabanus yethe Persian in his conference wthwith Themistocles, in these words. Ἡμιν δὲ πολλων νόμων καὶ καλων ὄντων, κάλλιστος οὑτός ἐστι, τὸ τεμαν βασιλέκ, καὶ προσκυνειν ἑικόνα θεου του τὰ πάντα σώζοντος. Amongst those many excellent Laws of orours yethe best is this, to honour & worship yethe King as the Image of ytthat God who conserveth all things. Plut.Plutarch Themist.Themistocles apud Cudworth. p 287.

TIn yethe Persian or Zoroastrian trinity vizt Oromasdes, Mithras & Arimanius the third person Arimanius or Arimanius signifies yethe same wthwith Hades or Pluto. So Hesychius: Αρειμάνης ὁ Ἀίδης παρὰ Πέρσαις Arimanius among yethe Persians is Hades (that is Orcus or Pluto:) wherein he did but follow Theopompus who in Plutarch calls Arimanius likewise Hades or Pluto: wchwhich it seems was as well yethe third in yethe Persian Trinity as it was in yethe Homerican. CudwthCudworth p 290.

The Egyptians are confessed in Plato to have had so much ancienter records of time then yethe Greeks ytthat yethe Greeks were but infants compared wthwith them.

Strabo (lib 15 p 715) testifies of yethe Indian Brachmans that they did agree wthwith the greeks in many things & particularly in this, ὅτι γενητὸς ὁ κόσμος καὶ φθαρτὸς that yethe world was both made & should be destroyed.