"We do not know how many works Psellos composed on Hermetic literature. The only one that remains is a gloss on the ‘Poimandres’ … After maintaining the influence of ‘Genesis’ on the formation of the cosmogonic doctrines of the ‘Poimandres’, Psellos affirms that all Hellenic conceptions of God are influenced by Eastern models. He justifies this superiority of the East over Greek philosophy by pointing out that Porphery [the Neo-Platonist of the 3rd century AD] had gone to an Egyptian priest, Anebon, in order to receive instruction on the first cause."