X, 3800 = Dessau, _Inscr. sel._, 4362.

45. See the opening pages of this chapter.

46. Plut,. _De Iside et Osir._, 52; cf. Hermes Trismegistus, [Greek: Horoi
Asklepiou], c. 16; and Reitzenstein, _Poimandres_, p. 197.

47. Cf. Naville, _op. cit._, pp. 170 ff.

48. Juv., VI, 489: "Isiacae sacraria lenae"; cf. Friedlaender,
_Sittengeschichte_, I^6, p. 502.

49. In a recent book Farnell has brilliantly outlined the history of the
ritual of purification and that of the conception of purity throughout
antiquity (_Evolution of Religion_, London, 1905, pp. 88-192), but
unfortunately he has not taken Egypt into account where the primitive forms
have been maintained with perhaps the fewest alterations.

50. Juv., VI, 522 ff.

51. Friedlaender, _Sittengeschichte_, I^6, p. 510.--On this transformation
of the Isis cult, cf. Reville, _op. cit._, p. 56.

52. Plut., _De Iside_, c. 2; cf. Apul., _Met._, XI, 6, end.

53. AElius Arist., _In Sarap._, 25 (II, p. 359, Keil ed.); see Diodorus, I,
93, and Apuleius, XI, 6, end.--On future rewards and punishments in
Hermetism, see Ps.-Apul., _Asclepius_, c. 28; Lydus, _De mensib._, IV, 32
and 149, Wuensch ed.

54. Porph., _Epist. ad Aneb._, 29. The answer of the Ps.-Iamblichus (_de
Myst._, VI, 5-7) is characteristic. He {235} maintained that these threats
were addressed to demons; however, he was well aware that the Egyptians did
not distinguish clearly between incantations and prayers (VI, 7, 5).

55. Cf. G. Hock, _Griechische Weihegebraeuche_, 1905, pp. 65 ff. Ps.-Apul.,
_Asclep._, 23: "Homo fictor est deorum qui in templis sunt et non solum
inluminatur, verum etiam inluminat"; c. 37: "Proavi invenerunt artem qua
efficerent deos." Cf. George Foucart, _loc. cit._ [n. 61]: "La statuaire
egyptienne a, avant tout autre, le caractere de creer des etres vivants."

56. Maspero, _Sur la toute-puissance de la parole_ (_Recueil de travaux_,
XXIV), 1902, pp. 163-175; cf. my _Recherches sur le manicheisme_, p. 24, n.
2.--The parallelism between the divine and the sacerdotal influence is
established in Ps.-Apul., _Asclepius_, 23.

57. Iamblichus, _Myst._, VI, 6; cf. G. Foucart, _La methode comparative et
l'histoire des religions_, 1909, p. 131, 141, 149 ff. and infra, n. 66. The
Egyptians prided themselves on having been the first "to know the sacred
names and to use the sacred speech" (Luc., _De Dea Syr._, 1).

58. This has been proven by Otto, _Priester und Tempel_, I, pp. 114 ff. Cf.
_s