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