And yet we know that there must have been a period when everything was void, or, in other words, when there was nothing. […] Cybele was sometimes so called, in Cyprus, in which there is a grove sacred to Venus. […] A name of Venus, from Mount Idalus, in Cyprus, in which there is a grove sacred to Venus. […] Ships were also under his protection, and whenever he appeared on the ocean there was a dead calm. […] Incense alone was usually offered on her altars, but if there was a victim it was a white goat.

Were there not different Jupiters among different nations? […] All strangers, whether landing there, by choice, or driven by storms, were cruelly immolated. […] It appears that there were three of the name of Vulcan. […] The doctrine of Pantheism teaches that there is but one Being existing; a Being eternal, infinite; of whom all other beings are parts; and that consequently there are no individual separate existences. […] Is there any other account given of the Egyptian Mercury?