Therefore, having much to tell and but little time to tell it, I will pass over the events of the years that followed.
For this was the manner of my life.

I rose early, I attended the worship of the Temple, and I gave my days to study.

I learnt of the rites of religion and their meaning, and of the beginning of the Gods and the beginning of the Upper World.

I learnt of the mystery of the movements of the stars, and of how the earth rolls on among them.

I was instructed in that ancient knowledge which is called magic, and in the way of interpretation of dreams, and of the drawing nigh to God.