{"product_id":"9781508003991","title":"The Aurora of the Philosophers","description":"\u003cp\u003eEXCERPT:\u003cbr\u003eADAM was the first inventor of arts, because he had knowledge of all things as well after the Fall as before. Thence he predicted the world’s destruction by water. From this cause, too, it came about that his successors erected two tables of stone, on which they engraved all natural arts in hieroglyphical characters, in order that their posterity might also become acquainted with this prediction, that so it might be heeded, and provision made in the time of danger. Subsequently, Noah found one of these tables under Mount Araroth, after the Deluge. In this table were described the courses of the upper firmament and of the lower globe, and also of the planets. At length this universal knowledge was divided into several parts, and lessened in its vigour and power. By means of this separation, one man became an astronomer, another a magician, another a cabalist, and a fourth an alchemist. Abraham, that Vulcanic Tubalcain, a consummate astrologer and arithmetician, carried the Art out of the land of Canaan into Egypt, whereupon the Egyptians rose to so great a height and dignity that this wisdom was derived from them by other nations. The patriarch Jacob painted, as it were, the sheep with various colours; and this was done by magic: for in the theology of the Chaldeans, Hebrews, Persians, and Egyptians, they held these arts to be the highest philosophy, to be learnt by their chief nobles and priests. So it was in the time of Moses, when both thc priests and also thc physicians were chosen from among the Magi – the priests for the judgment of what related to health, especially in the knowledge of leprosy. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kitrinos Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127198105840,"sku":"9781508003991","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781508003991_p0.jpg?v=1763725503","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781508003991","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}