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Thrice-greatest Hermes

Chapter 40

C. — which it i» kwful for the perfect alone to know — [that

is] (H. he a&yn) for ua.
J. For the Samothracians, in the Mysteries which are solemnised among them, explicitly hand on the tradition that this Adam is the Man Original
S. Moreover,' in the initiation temple of the Samo- thracians stand two statues of naked men, with both hands raised to heaven and ithyphallic, like the statue of Hermes in Cyllene.'
J. The statues aforesaid are images of the Man Original^