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No doubt, said Ammonius, as it is in us a violent and involuntary cause; but in the gods Necessity is not intolerable, uncontrollable, or violent, unless it be to the wicked; as the law in a commonwealth to the best man is its best gift, not to be violated or transgressed, not because they have no power, but because they have no will, to change it.
Ammonius, pupil of Philon, the Platonist, pronounced them stupid, and told the Greeks that he laughed at their oracles. Marcellus and Jacob were seated side by side. Marcellus described the happiness he had felt under the baptism of Mithra, and Jacob made him promise to become a follower of Jesus.
Then, there was the Philosopher Ammonius, whose lectures were constantly attended by an ass, a phenomenon not without parallel in more recent times, and all the more credible to Bodin, who had been professor of civil law. In one case we have fortunately the evidence of the ass himself.
It was inconceivable; Ammonius the mechanician was right when he said that a woman full of hatred was capable of anything, even the incredible and impossible. Meanwhile it was growing dusk and the scorching day had turned to the tempered heat of a glorious evening.
"No less a man than the astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus referred me to him." "The best of recommendation." "Well, then, I commissioned Ammonius to cast the horoscope for Verus during the past night and he brought it to me with an explanatory key. Here it is."
"You said it favored him; but unfortunately I must dispute the statement." "You? Do you try too, to read the stars?" "No, I leave that to men. Have you heard of Ammonius, the astrologer?" "Yes. A very learned man who observes from the tower of the Serapeum, and who, like many of his fellows in this city has made use of his art to accumulate a large fortune."
He did found it, at Croton; but Croton was destroyed, and all the history of the next seven centuries suffered from the destruction. Then it was seven centuries after his death, Ammonius Saccas arose, and started things again; and left a successor who was able to carry them forward almost to the point where Pythagoras left them.
Budaeus hit the mark when he exclaimed jocularly: 'Fastidiosule! You little fastidious person! Erasmus himself interprets the dominating trait of his being as maidenly coyness. The excessive sensitiveness to the stain attaching to his birth results from it. But his friend Ammonius speaks of his subrustica verecundia, his somewhat rustic gaucherie.
If Ammonius has erred ten times over still more than ten signs remain on this tablet, hostile and fatal to the praetor. I grieve for Verus but the state suffers with the sovereign's misfortunes. This man can never be my successor." "No?" asked Sabina rising from her couch. "No? Not when you have seen that your own star outlives his?
It was Iamblichus, born in the Lebanon region; we do not know in what year; or much about him at all, beyond that he was an aristocrat, and well-to-do; and that he conducted his Theosophic activities mainly from his native city of Chalcis. he died between 330 and 333; thus through thirteen decades, from the beginning of the third century, these four great Neo-Platonist Adepts were teaching Theosophy in the Roman world; Ammonius in Egypt; Plotinus and Porphyry, the arm of the Movement stretched westward to save, if saved they might be, the Roman west Europe, in Rome itself; then, since that was not be done, Iamblichus in Syria.
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