One
of the greatest tragedies of the philosophic world was the
loss of nearly all of the forty two books of Hermes. These
books disappeared during the burning of Alexandria.
--
Thrice Greatest Hermes, by Frater F.
***
"258 years
before Alexander" ... the priests subtracted 42 (the age at which
Zoroaster is said to have converted Vistaspa) from the round figure of
300.
-- Zoroaster, by Wikipedia |