Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt01002)

To be fair, some of us have been, for some years, trying to find 
independent verification of Wilder's statement and, so far, have been 
unable to do so. Has anyone else found any independent verification?
--j

fnord wrote:

> Hi,
> thanks to all!
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> In a site i've found 'Neoplatonism and Alchemy' from Wilder:
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> Writers have generally fixed the time of the development of the Eclectic theosophical system during the third century of the Christian era. It appears to have had a beginning much earlier, and, indeed, is traced by Diogenes Laertius to an Egyptian prophet or priest named Pot-Amun, (1) who flourished in the earlier years of the dynasty of the Ptolemies. 
> and in the footnote:
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> 1 - This name is Coptic, and signifies one consecrated to Amun, the god or genius of wisdom.
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> So that's almost the same thing HPB saids in the Key. I know now she got it from here, the thing is from where the hell got it Wilder!
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