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We know that the Sages of the Hebrews, when they were uncertain and perplexed by excessive difficulty in investigating those things which either the inaccessible womb of nature or the obscurity of ancient times keeps far removed from human intellect, were accustomed to use this exclamation: Let this be set aside until Elijah comes. They say: let us leave these things until Elijah, the illuminator of darkness, has come. As I am about to write, most sacred Emperor, concerning the sublime arts and sciences of the Egyptians, hidden under sacred marks as if under certain concealed coverings, I see the minds of almost all philosophers are so dull and blunt in perceiving them, and I find such a deep silence in the monuments of almost all historians concerning their true meaning, that it might perhaps have been more well-advised to relegate this matter, sufficiently abstruse, so impassable, and hitherto unattempted, to the times of Elijah, rather than to dare anything rashly in a business so arduous and difficult. As Demosthenes says in a certain oration: In the darkness, it is not possible to know true forms.