for the prosecution.   Moreover, the ideas of NeoPlatonic , Stoic and Hermetic writers (like Plotinus , Proclus , Porphyry , Iamblichus , Cicero , Seneca , Marcus Aurelius , Epictetus , Pseudo-Dionysius , and the shadowy figure Hermes Trismegistus 'himself') are then linked to the theories of late medieval/early modern