Alexandria the Eternal Melting Pot, by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
All crossed Alexandria and all changed their minds here; the exchange of ideas made the city a cradle of religions and philosophies; Philo of Alexandria attempted to place the entire Ancient Hebrew religion within a Greek philosophical frame and to diffuse it among the Greeks and the Romans. Poimandres, the Holy Book of the Hermetic Gnosticism, was also written here; so Alexandria, and not Makkah, is the first place where people believed that a book was written by God Himself, in this case named Hermes Trismegistus, as an unbelievable phenomenon of syncretism between the Egyptian Djhawty (Thot) and the Greek Hermes. First published in the Egyptian monthly magazine CLEO: October 2002 Republished online in Buzzle: 1st August 2005 Latest republication:
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