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Ostanes (from Greek Ὀστάνης), also spelled Hostanes and Osthanes was named in Greek and Latin pseudepigraphies as early as the Hellenistic period. Together with Pseudo-Zoroaster and Pseudo-Hystaspes, Ostanes belongs to the group of pseudepigraphical "Hellenistic Magians", writing under pseudonyms of famous "Magians." He was an imagined master sorcerer, sage, astrologer, and philosopher claimed by some to have lived in the 5th century BC and as early as 400 BC.

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Pliny tells us that Demokritos was instructed in magic by Ostanes the Mede.

The nature is pleased to nature
The nature overcomes the nature
The Nature dominated nature.

Ostanes, the Mede, was one of the celebrated early alchemists. Several writers have recorded for us the existence of a book called The Book of the Divine Prescriptions, which seems to have been the most famous writing of these Persian sages.

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