Horace ninth century as well. Traube had focused too much on Horace's "Satires". Almost all of Horace's work found favor in the Medieval period. In fact medieval scholars were also guilty of over-schematism, associating Horace's different genres with the different ages of man. A twelfth century scholar encapsulated the theory: "...Horace wrote four different kinds of poems on account of the four ages, the "Odes" for boys, the "Ars Poetica" for young men, the "Satires" for mature men, the "Epistles" for old and complete men." It was even thought that Horace had composed his works in the order in which they
Epistles of Wisdom blended with Ismailism and adopted Christian elements of great interest for the philosophy and history of religions. It is believed by the Druze from interpretation of the epistles that Al-Hakim did not die, but merely withdrew into occultation and will return one day and reveal the Druze wisdom to the world in order to inaugurate a golden age. On the concept of God, Hamza ibn Ali wrote On the concept of reincarnation and the universal soul, Baha'uddin wrote On the concept of atheism, Baha'uddin argued Regarding the secrecy of the epistles of wisdom, Hamza ibn Ali wrote However he did