Democritus, as Laertius relates, was a great emulator of yethe Pythagoreans & seemed to to have taken all his Philosophy from them, & held wthwith Leucippus that yethe Ear yethe earth was carried about yethe Sun in a Vortex p 13.

The Pythagorick monads were atoms. ib.

Posidonius, an ancient & learned Philosopher, did (as both Strabo & Empiricus tell us) avouch it for an old tradition, that yethe first inventor of atomical Philosophy was one Moschus a Phœnician, who as Strabo notes, lived before yethe Trojan war. Perhaps this Moschus was ynthen that Mochus a Phœnician Phuysiologer in Iamblichus wthwith whose successors Priests & Prophets he a'ffirmsaffirms ytthat Pythagoras sometimes sojourning at Sidon (his native city) had converst. p. 12.

Echphantus, Empedocles Pythagoreans & atomists p 14, 15 Zenocrates Heraclides Asclepiades Diodorus & Metrodorus cChius atomists p 16, 17. The generality of Physiologers before p atomists holding all sense to be touch, resolving all sensible qualities into figures & that there was no black & white wthwithout sight nor bitter & sweet wthwithout taste p 9, 17

Thales a Phœnician by extraction affirms ytthat God made all things out of water. He was a Phœnician by extraction & seems to have had thence his two principles of water & divine spirit moving upon it. Sanchu niathon puts a turbid dark chaos & a spirit was affected wthwith love towards its own principles. Zeno (also a Phœnician originally) tells us ytthat Hesiod's Chaos was water & ytthat yethe material as well as earth was made out of water So yethe new made heaven & earth or Moses calls water. The sptspirit of GdGod saith he moved upon yethe face of yethe waters.

Preexistence & transmigration of Souls p 23, 38.

Aristotle (Met. l. 1, c. 3.) tells us ytthat the oldest Philosophers of all, they who first theologised made yethe Ocean & Thetys Tethys to have been yethe original of generation & for this cause yethe oath of yethe Gods is said to be by water (called by yethe Poets Styx) as being that from wchwith they all derived their original. So Homer makes yethe yethe Ocean to be yethe father & Thet Tethys yethe mother of all yethe Gods. This Theology AritophenesAristophenes thus describes, as if at first there was nothing but Chaos. Then on this vast Abyss night spreading o're her black wings laid yethe first eggs: whence sprang love (yethe worlds prolifick source) wthwith golden wintgs: wchwith fluttering o're dark Chaos gendered all yethe store of yethe yethe numerous store of Animals & Gods. p 120, 121. By night understand yethe invisible deity whome the Egyptians call & paint wthwith an egg in his mouth & by Love yethe spirit wchwith moved on yethe face of yethe wathters. Dr Cutdworth therefore is much mistaken when he represents this Philosophy as Atheistical.

Thales said that all things were full of Gods (as Aristot. de An. l. 1. c. 8 writes) p 124. Perhaps by Gods he meanes worlds

Anaximander his scholar held infinite worlds coexisting & successively generated & corrupted (Euseb Præp l. 1 p. 15 Plutarch) p 128. Anaximanderri opinio est Nativos esse Deos longis intervallis Orientes Occidentesque, 3os innumerabiles esse mundos (Cic. de Nat. Deor. l. 1.) p 129.

Anaxagoras decryed for an Atheist merely because he held yethe sun to be a globe of fire & yethe moon to be an earth, that is denyed them to be animated Gods. p 129.

Putabat Herodotus Hesiodum et Homerum annis ante se 400 circiter Theogonian in Græcia primos prædicasse p 211.

The love wchwith formed yethe world out of Chaos, the first principle in yethe univers, yethe active cause of things, the chiefest of Gods. p 212.

The world made out of preexistent material & immaterial substances. p 215, 216.

A good & an evil Principle, (yethe son of God & Satan) called by yethe Persians Oromasdes & Arimanius, by yethe Ægyptians Osiris & Typhon. Theodosius in Photius calls yethe Persian Arimanius, Satanas. p. 222.

The millenium known to yethe Persian Magi. p 223.

Both Laertius & Diodorus represent it as yethe opinion of yethe ancient Egyptians ytthat yethe world was generated or had a beginning, as also ytthat yethe sun moon & other parts of yethe world were Gods. p 238.

The Mus Araneus being blind is said to be deified by yethe Ægyptians because they thought ytthat darkness was older then light (Plutarch. Sympos l. 4, Qu. 5) pag 248

Orpheus saith he will sing concerning Chaos how all things were made out of it & concerning yethe much wise Love yethe oldest of all & self perfect wchwith actually produced them all separating one thing from another. p 249.

The Ægyptians represented all their Gods not standing upon land but in ships upon yethe water p 24

Aristotle affirms that all before him did κοσμοποιεω, that is all but a very few not worth naming p 250. The later Platonists & Chaldeans as well as Aristotelians held yethe world eternal p 251, 252. The former Chaldeans that it was made p 3

The Pythagorick principles are yethe Orphick traditions. For what things Orpheus delivered mystically those Pythagoras learned when he was initiated by Aglaophemus in yethe Orphick mysteries. Pythagoras Pythagoras himself affirming as much in his book called yethe Holy oration (wchwith yet perhaps not not Pythagoras's byut writ by one of his scholars) p 296. Proclus upon yethe Timæus.

Pythagoras as we are informed by Porphyrius & Iamblichus, learned something from all these four, from yethe Ægyptians, yethe Persian Magi, yethe Chaldæans & Orpheus or his followers. And accordingly Syrianus wrot (MS. Coll. Caj. Cant. )p. 14) makes yethe Orphick & Pythagorick principles to be all one & yethe same.

It is Pythagorical to follow yethe Orphick genealogies. For from yethe Orphick tradition downwards by Pythagoras was yethe knowledge of yethe Gods derived to yethe Greeks (Proclus in Timæum p 289) Cudw. p 299.

Orpheus yethe body a prison wherein yethe soul is kept till its debts or faults be expiated (Plato) p 299.

Orpheus his Cosmogomia p 300. Suidas in Orpheo. Timotheus apud Cedrenum et in Eusebij Chron

Orpheus his Trinity ib. & p 547.

Pythagoras his Trinity p 547.

Simplicius a zealous contender for yethe worlds eternity makes Moses description of creation a tradition drawn from yethe Egyptian fables. p 313. Simpl. in Aristot. Phys fol. 268 col 1.

Egyptians excelled all other mortals in wisdome p 311. Herodot. 1 Reg. 4. 30

The Chalæan Cosmogomia 312.

The Indian Brahmans saith Strabo agreed wthwith yethe Greeks in this ytthat yethe world was made & shall be destroyed p 312.

The Ægyptians were yethe first authors assertors of yethe soudls immortality & of its Transmigration after death. (Herod. Euterp.) p 313. In what sence they & yethe Pythagoreans asserted it p 313, 314. Vizt that yethe soule was for offences banished & desendeddescended by way of punishment into these earthly bodies & some by way of further fpunishmtment sank lower into yethe bodies of Brutes, but vertuous & pious soules should after this life enjoy a state of happiness in celestial bodies.

That under yethe religious rites & theology of yethe Ægyptians, Persians, Syrians Indians & other nations was hidden a real learning & doctrine. p 314, 315

The Egyptians besides their sphinges had also Harpocrates & Sigalions in their Temples wchwith were statues of young men pressing their lips wthwith their finger. p 316 vizt vizt to signify ytthat yethe young schollars of yethe wise should first learn silence, as Pythagoras taught his schollars.

Chæremon & others acknowledg nothing before this visible & corporeal world adlledging for yethe countenance of their opinion such of yethe Egyptians as talk of no other Gods but yethe Planets & those stalrs ytthat fill up yethe Zodiack or rise together wthwith them, their Dæcanes & Horoscopes & robust Princes as they call them; whose names are also inserted into their Almanacks or Ephemerides together wthwith the times of their risings & settings & yethe Prognosticks or significations of future events from them For he observed that those Egyptians who made yethe Sun yethe Demiurgus or Architect of yethe world, interpreted yethe Stories of Isis & Osiris & all those other religious fables into nothing but stars & Planets & yethe River Nile, & referred all things universally into natural or inanimate nothing into incorporeal & living substances. Hæc Porphyrius in epistola ad Anebo sacerdotem Ægyptium — apud Euseb. Pr. Eu. l. 3 c 4. To wchwith Iamblicus answers that these stars were yethe least part of yethe Hermetical institutions &c., But that is yethe least part of those things he understood because &c p 317, 319.

A dispute between Theuth & Thamus King of Egypt concerning yethe convenience & inconvenience of letters mentioned by Plato p in his Phædus. Cudw. p 321. This Thamus Plato saith reigned in Thebes. p 340.

The destruction of yethe world by fire & restauration thereof an Egyptian doctrine p 328.

Hermes acknowledged a δημιουργος λογὸς του πάντων δε σπότου set over this world as governour, yethe son of yethe first being. p 330. Cyril. cont. Iul. lib. 1 p 33.

The Egyptian Trinity p 413, 414, or rather p 353, 354

Saturn & Iupet named together by Plato as yethe oldest of yethe Gods p 374.

The worship of yethe Gods being prescribed in yethe Pythagorean golden verses, Laertius saith yethe Gods of Pythagoras were yethe Sun Moon & Stars. p 371.

Against Anaxagoras for holding yethe Sun to be fire & yethe Moon an earth Plato in his book of laws thus lib 10 p 886. complains. When you and I, saith he, endeavingendeavouring by arguments to prove that there are Gods, speak of yethe Sun & Moon Stars & Earth as Gods & divine things, our young men presently being principled by these new Philosophers, will reply, that these are nothing but earth & stones wchwith therefore cannot mind nor take notice of any humane affairs. p 381.