The Divine Pymander (Everard 1650)

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The first English translation of the Corpus Hermeticum, rendered by John Everard in 1650 from the Latin of Marsilio Ficino. Includes all seventeen books plus the Asclepius. The archaic language preserves a reverent, devotional tone faithful to the original spirit.

This text was converted from a scan-based epub via OCR. The body contains significant artifacts and garbled characters. For a clean reading text, see Corpus Hermeticum - Mead. This version is valuable as a historical document — Everard's translation deeply influenced the English alchemical and esoteric traditions, and its devotional register captures something that modern translations sometimes flatten.

Key teachings within: The Poemandres vision (Divine Mind as the source of all things), the voluntary descent of Man into matter (divine-spark), the seven planetary rulers, the path of return through self-knowledge, and the rebirth of the soul through the expulsion of the twelve torments.

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“the Readey. what time he lived in. Some ſay he lived after Moſ#s-his time; | giving this ſlender Reaſory fot’s It, viz; \Becauſe he’was named Ter Maxis ; tor being prev? “Fra ferred ©- (according’to the Evyp- | Fuſs. thn Ctiftorns) being chief Phic’1 loſopher/,* to be: chief of the! Priethovd-; ahd-fjom thenee,! to be chief in Govertimenic, or’! Kits, “Bur if thib be all their! © ground”; /you mult* excufe wy | difſent from’them; and that for! »c,,, his reaſon’, Becauſe according P-re to the molt karned of his ® folNollus lowers, he was Called Ter Maxi-} 5. mus ; for having perfect, and ex-” oſepbie a&t Knowledg of ‘all things? tee contained in the World ; which | 7ing things he [divided .into Three 6154 2 King 

0: jd)! * re Os 7 _ g | Kingdoms (as he calls them, 16:7 viz. Mineral, Vegetable, Animal ; £4 which Three, he did excel in the 1 right underſtanding of; alſo, e} becauſe’ he attained to, and | tranſmitted ro Poſterity (al1-7 though in an AEnigmatical,and { obſcure ſtile) the Knowledg of 6. the Quinteſſence of the whole Univerle (which Univerſe, as I xr} aid before, he divided-inte ’ 7 Three Parts) otherwiſe called, 5r |} The great Hlixt of the Philoſo# phers,; which is the Receptacle of all Celeſtial and Terreſtial i Vertues; which Secret, many -} Enorantly deny, many have 7 cchargeably ſought after , yer | few, but ſome, yea, and Engliſh- * tiplas | men * , -haye happily found. Norton, | A4 The ©*

” To the Readers [ ke*Deſcription of this greac: Treaftre ; 15 ſaid robe found: figrived upon - a | Smaragdine Fable, in the Valley- of !Ebron, Mer the’ Flood. So rat ‘the Reaſon before alleagedto prove rhis-Author to live after: [Moſes ſ{&ms invalid; neither doth it yay appear, that he lived in Mo Lis Hick , although it be the opinion of ſome;,‘as-of Tohn Funfius, who faith in his Chronology, That he lived Twenty one” yeers- before the Law was given by Moſes in the Wilderneſs : But the Reaſons that he, afid others give, are far weake then thoſe that I ſhall give, for « ” -hisJiving before Moſes his time. (© Myreaſons for that, are theſe; Firſt, yy = 7 --- > COR ---_.

Firſt; Becauſear:is received’ a-” 1. morgft: the Ancients, thathe » | was:rhe firſt ‘tharinvented’ the \ | Arrot: communicating Know> | ledg tothe World, by Wrinng > | or’Engraving:“Nowf fo, then ; | inallprobabylityhe was before > | Moſes, for it is:faid of|Moſes, | | thav he was from ® his:childe- * aas 4 an» hood, skilled -mall the Hgyptian © Learning, which couldnorwell - | have: been withour thehelp-of ’ | Eirerature,which-we never read | of any before\charinvented by - | Hermes. Secondly, Heisfaid by 2. , | T-himlelt, ro-berhe ſon of $4- * Chap tar, and by * others to: be * 5aScribe of Saturn. Now *Saturs ww,” h,

To the Reader. - great Grand-Father. Iſhall but rake: in Snidas: his judginent , and orci ſatisfied, hs he did notlive onely before, butlong before Woſes: His words are »84da theſe, * Credo Mercurium Triſme2i/twn-ſapientem Eg yptium floruiſſe ante’Pharaonem. :2. © Inthis Book;though ſo very * old;;.is-contamed more ’ true knowledg of God and Narture, then-itr- all the Books in the Wortd—beſtdes, I except. onely Sacred: Wric :’: And they that .c ſhalk: Judiciouſly read ir, and - © rightly nnderftandiir, “may well +> be excuſed from reading many \., Books; the Authors of which, z of the Creator, and Creation. tend fo much to the know 

ever to attain tothe height, and RY ’ . > os = » any man; ‘he ‘appeated 310 him; | as it appears:by:this: Book. T hat: a than who had nor the benchc of his Anceſtors: knowledg, bes: Ing as Laid before 3:.‘The firſt; inventer ofthe Art ok Comm: nicating KnowledgroPoltericy: by writing, ſhould-be- fo hi | a’Divine; and fo deep”ia Phitoo {opher, feems to beathing mort» . God y [‘thert of: Nha ;: and; thereforevitawas the opinion of ſome * ;‘Thac he:came frome ore. Heaven;onet borri upon Earth b.cc,,.. There 1s ,Tontained:ih this: Book ; thavtrue” Philoſophy; withour which, tisiimpollible gi On, exatnelY’of Piety;-arid Rel

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Ts the Reader. on. i; According ro-this Phila-./| b ſophy,I callhim.a Philgſopher, . L that ſhalblearn and: ſtudy the: | ; things chat are , and how SA re Þ areordered;cand governed, aids byw hbow,and for whatcaulſe,or to what : ahd he that doth. {o;iwillicknowledgrthanks to, add. admite:.the Opaniporens! Creator, P cr;and Directer: of call-x (1 ehings@: And-’ hel! that-{hall-bie(thus:4ruly thank-+-} ful, ,mayquuly;be called Pious | | - |Religiaus; andthe thar.is|} . Wjou6ngy ſhall :more- and/} know: where, afd whad! ra ey ifAnd learging chas;F Re ſhall yet be moreand more} Religious2:! 9101 i837 <N_ glory and fplendor Fi h rome :

.Philoſophy;- is -ar> ;endevoring to underftand-the. chief Gogd, as the Fountain of all, Gogd; ’} Now how can weicome.nets to, ot finde_out the Fountain, ’{ -but by ‘making-ufe ofthe “‘Streams..as 2- conduct 1to-;|;? f| Ys | The operations of Nature,: ate Streams r running $1 from 77 | God. Lam-notof the.ignerags, * phers, are the-greareft Atheiſts | ings forth in the Way of Na- --- | I*1T : cenent, To.the Reader: Fountain of Good:; which and fooliſh opiniomof;j thoſe that ſay, The greateſt Philoſoas if rolknow-the Works of God, and to underſtand his go- | cure, ruſt neceſsitate a man to , deny God. The * Scripture dif. *JebzÞ: approves of this as a ſottiſh ” is :

To’the Reade ‘tenent, ‘and’expe ‘contrio_ ir Ferbetold 1 Here: is the greate Philoſopher , and therdorethgprearcſt Divine. - Read underſftandin gly this _--- Book ( and 2p = Help, t oe eo make ufeiof » of that volurnious XCommentaweb PA rnten upon #) then’it will beſpoke for i or Author, m_ c2n en by any man, leaft by me. in Thnne 11 the os of- melleuth, WE;

= C’S. JF Js 2 9. 4 Vniverſa The Tites of every Book Hermes Trifuegii, % , A $00 Is firſt Book. T TEf Poemander. 13 3., The holy Sermon. 36 4. The Key 40 5. That God us not manifeſt, and yet moſt manifeſt. 62 6. That in God alone us good. 72 7. The fecret Sermon in tht Mount; of Regeneration, and the Profeſſion of Silence. 80 8. That the greateſt evil in May, « the . ot knowing of God, 99 rms $0 Aſclepius. _ 103 10, The cMinde to Hermes. 117 . 12, Hermes

Lib, 4… Folio. 11. Of the common wind: to Far: 38 12. Hermes Trilmegiſtus his * ater or Monas. * Fi 13. Of Senſe and Vaderſlanding. : , I4. Of Operation-anl Senſe. 179 15. Of Trath to hs fon Tat. . ” ©191 16. That none of the things that are, can periſh. 201 17. To Aſclepius, 70 be truly wiſe. 207 |

, -þ- = , 7 y,. 9a. $1921 O03, V Birme q ;ſmegjſ us | Hs -.-. - Firſt Book. z O my. Son, wrice this firſt; Book , both for Hymanity ſake, and for ; Piety towards God. 2. For there-can be ; no;Religion more true | or x juſt; .thento.know the things; that | arezandto:acknowledg thanks for all | things, to-him that.made them,which | veg | ſhall, nor ‘ceaſc continually tg c | Fur + 4 | ff .. 3» What then ſhould a man do, 0 | Father, to lead; his; life well; ſecing [| there is;norhing here rrug ?..,. “1… [329% B = 4. Be _

2 ThefirſtBook of &-‘Be Pious 4WReligiog1O:my + for he thax doch ſo, Jigthe. beſt and higheſt Philoſopher; « bj with- | our Philoſophy, i is impoſſible ever to attain to the height and exactneſs of Piery or Religion. 5. Bur he that ſhall learn and ſtudy the things that are, and how they are ordered and governed, and by whom, and for what cauſe, or to what end, | will acknowledg chanks ro on os man,” 25r0 a good Faljerg nex&ltear Nurſe.” and a Sith Dfe and he that gives thanks ſhall han an or Religious, and’ he that: is Religious ſhall know both where the-truth is; and whar ir is, -and Tearning thar, he will be yet more and more Retibidus 6. For never, O Son, ſhall;‘5rcan that Soul, which’ while irci3-i8’the Body lightens and -lifrs up (df’ts know and comprehend which is Good and True Mlideback 6 the 6ontrary : For’it is infinitely chaired thereof, and forgertth all [Evils;>uma when

Hermes Triſmegiftus. 3 when it hath learned and known its Father and P3ogehitoz, it can no’more Apoſtatize or depart from thar’Good. 7. And let this, O Son, be’the end of Religion and Piety ; whereunto when thou art once arrived, thowſhalt . both live well , and dic blaſſedly, whileſt thy Soul is-not ignorant whether it muſt return, and flie back apain, | $. For this onely,O Son,is theway ro the Truth, . which our Pzogeſtitozs rravelled in; and by which, making their Journey, they at length atrained tothe Good. It 1s a Venerable vo and plain, but hard and difficult for the Soul to 50 in chat is inthe Body. 9: For firſt mwit it war 4gainſt irs own ſelf, and adfrer-much Strife and Diſſention,ic muſt be overcome of one part ; ,for the Contention/ is/ of ore againſt rwo, whileſt it Aids avyay,; and they ſtrive ro hb{d and detain. / 10, Bur the viRtory of bgth4s/nor like; for the one haſteth torharwhich #0 B 2 is

A. The firſt Book of 1s Good, but the other is a neighbo co the things that arc Evil; and th which. is Good, deſfireth to be ſer : Liberty ; bur the things that are Evi love Bondage and Slavery. Ii. And if the two parts be over” come,they become quier, and are cony. rentto accept of it as their Ruler ; buy* if the one be overcome of the two,)it 1 by them led and carried to be puniſh ed by its being and continuance here. I2. Thisis, O Son, the Guide u the way that leads thither ; for thoi mult firſt forfake the Body before thy end, and ger the victory in this Cong. tention and Strifeful life , and whe thou haſt overcome, return. 13. But now, O-my Son, I will by Heads run through the things thar arc} Underſtand thou what I ſay, and re member what thou heareſt. | G ; - - 14« Allthings that are are moyed onely that which. is not is unmoveR* able… By nm 1 15-:Every Body is a 6. e & 16, No U . Ct

Hermes Triſm eviſtus. 16, Not every Body is diffolveable. 17. Some Bodies are diſſolyeable. 18. Every living thing is “nor ortal. 19. Notevery living ching!! is imverymortal. 20. That which may bc diſſolved buſ’s alſo corrupcible. # 21. That which abides always i is ;ſhJunchangeable. rel 22- That which is unchangeable « i315 eternal. \ofl 23. That which is always made þÞsS always corrupted. old 24. Thar which is made bur once, \eflis never corrupted, neither becomes any other thing. S 25. Firſt, God ; Secondly, the rd World; Thirdly, Man. re R * The World for Man, Man for a df 27. Of the Soul; that part which res Senfible is morral’, bur that which is Reaſonable is immortal. 28. Every Eſſence is immortal. B 3 2g. Evary

6 _Thefir{t Book of 29, Every Eſfence is unchangeable. 30. Every thing thart is, is double. 31. None of the things that arc ſtand till. 32. Not all things are moved by a. Soul,.: but every thing that is, is moved by a Soul. | 33- Every thing that ſuffers is Senfible, every thing that is Senfible ſuffereth. 34. Every thing that is ſad, rejoyceth alſo, .and is amortal living Creature. 35. Not every thing that joyeth is alſo fad, but is an crernal living thing. | 36., Not every Body is fick; every Body that is fick is Cifſolveable. - 37- ‘The Minde in God. | 38. Reaſoning ( or diſputing, or diſcourfing)in Man. 39. Reaſon inthe Minde, 49. The Minde is voyd of ſufferIng, 41. No

| Hermes Triſmegifthe. 4t. ‘No thing i in 4 Body trile. 42. Alt that is incorporeal, 8 voye | of Lying. & 43. Every thing thar 1s imade is corruptible. © 44- Nothing gbod upon Earth , nothing evil in Heaven. 45. Godis good, Manis evil: 46. Good 1s voluntary, ot of its own accord. 47. Evilis unvoluntary, of agHnſt Its wilt. 43. The Gods chooſe Wo things, as good things. | 49. Tune is a Divine thing. 50. Law is Humane. 51. Malice is the nouriſhment of of the World. 52. Time is*rhe Corruption of Man. © ’ 53. Whatlſoever is in Heaven is unalrerable. 54. All upon Earth is lterable. 55. Nothing in Heaven is ſetvarited, nothing upon Exrth free. | B 4 56. No 

-” The firſt Book of i 56. Nothing unknown in Heaven, aothing known upon Earth. 57. Thethings upon Earth, communicate not with thoſe in Heaven. 58. All things in Heaven are unblameable, all things upon Earth are ſubje& ro Reprehenſion. 59.”That which is immortal, is not mortal ,, that which 1s morral , is not.immortal. 60. That which is ſown, is not always begotten, bur that which is be. gorren always, is ſown. 8 61. Of adiſlolveable Body, there are two Times, ,one from, ſowing to generation , one from gencration to death. . oy 62, Of an everlaſting Body, . the time is onely fromthe Generation. = 63. Diſſolveable Bodies are, increaſed and diminiſhed. 64. Diſlolvcable mater: is altered into. contraries.z to wit, Cotruption and Generation, - but Eternal matcer into its ſelf, and its like. | 5 .d7 Q 65. The

4 Hermes Triſmegiſtus. 9 . The Generation. of Man is Foe. ag the Corruption of Man is the beginning of Generation. 66. That which off-ſpriags or begerteth -another, is it (clf an offſpring or begotten by another. 67.. Of things that arc, ſome are in Bodies, ſome in their Jdeas. 68. Wharſoever things belong to operation or working , are in a Body. 69. That which is immortal, partakes not of that which is mortal. 7%, . That which is mortal,cometh. not ico a Body immortal ; but thar which is immorcal, comers into.that. which is mortal.. 71. Operations or workings are not ‘carried upwards, but deſcend downwards. 72. Things upon Earth, do nothing advantage thoſe in Heaven | bur.all chings in Heaven do profit and advantage chethings upon Earth. | « 73s Heaven 1s panG and a fir - … . receptable

tO The firſt Book of * receptable of everlaſting Bodies, the Earth of corruptible Bodies. | 74. The Earch is bruitiſh, the Heayen is re2ſonable or rational. 75. Thoſe things that arc in Heaven, are ſubjected or placed under it ; but the things on Earth, are placed upon it. 76. Heaven is the firſt Element. 77. Providence is Divine Order. 78. Neceſſity 1s the Miniſter ‘or Servant of Providence. 79. Fortune is the carriage or effe&t of that which is without Order , the Idol of opcrarion, a lying fantaſic or opinion. 80. Whatis God 2 The immutable or unalterable Good. 81. What is Man * An unchangeable Evil. 82. If thou perfely remember theſe Heads, thou canft not forger’ choſe things which in more words I have largely expounded unto thee , for theſe are the Contents or youyment of chem. 8.

Hermes T riſmegiſtus. T7 $3. Avoyd ail Converſation.with : the multitude or common People; | for 1 would not have thee ſubject to Envy, much leſs to he ridiculous unro the many. | - 536% 84. For the like always takes fo it ſelf char which is like ,_ but che unlike never agrees with the unlike : Such Diſcourtes as theſe have very few Auditors, and peradvenrture very few will have, bur they have ſomerhing peculiar unto themlelv:s. 85. They do rather ſhirpen and whet. evil men to their malicioufneſs ; therefore it behoverth ro avoyd the multitude, and take heed of them, as not underftanding the vertue and power of the things that are ſaid. 86. Pow doft thou mean, D Father # 87. Thus, O Son, the whole Nature and Compoſition of thoſe living things called Men, is very prone to Maliciouſneſs ,. and is very familiar, and as it were nouriſhed with ir, and therefore is delighred with it. wy rn1s

12 Thefirſt Book, Cc. this wighr if it ſhall come to learn or know, that the world was once made, and all things are done according to Providence and Neceflity, Deſtiny, or Fate, bearing Rule over all : Will he not be much worſe then himſelf ? deſpiſing the whole, becauſe it was made. And if he may lay the cauſe of Evil, upon Fate cz Deſtiny, he will never abſtain from any evil work. 88, Wherefoze we muſt lok warily fo ſach kinde of people, that being in ignozance, they may be teſs evil fo2 fear of that which is hidden and kept ſecref. The end of the firſt Book.

- L | 13 The Second Book CALLED POEMeANDER. YOM Y Thoughts being. once VAT: ſeriouſly buſicd about the WAP things that arc, -and my TITS Liadatendion lifted up, ’* allmy bodily Senſes. being exceedingly holden back, as it is withthem thar are very heavyof ſleep, by reaſon eircher of fulneſs of meat, or of bodily labor. Me thought I ſaw one of an excecding great ſtature, and an infinite greatneſs call me by my name,and ſay unto me, What woulveſf thou hear andſ& 2 oz what wouldeT thon underſtand, to learn, and know 2, 2. Then ſaid I, Whoartthouz Iam quoth

14. The ſecond Book of gaoth hagPcemander, che minde of the great Lozd, the moſt Mighty and ab{olure Cmpero} : I know whar thou wouldſt have, andI amaal Ways pre: ſert with thee, 3. Then ſajd], J would learn the thing 3 thaf are, and imDerand the nafure of ther, and know Hcy, How 2 ſaid he : T anſwered, That I would gladly hear. Then he, Have me again in thy minde, and whatſoever thou wouldeſt learn, ! wilt teach thec. hen he had thus ſaid, he was changee in his Idea or Fezm, and ſtraight- way | in the twinckling of an cyc, al-things were opened unto me : ne1 ſaw an infinite ſight, all things were become light,” both ſweet and exceeding pleaſant and I was MY da delighted m the beholdj E3 : oy 2 But after a lrele while, there wass Uarkneſs made in part, coming down obliquely; fearful a nd hideous, which ſecmedwto/me ro be changed into

p 1 ) | ) ” Hermes Triſmegiſtus. into a cerfain moyſt nature, unſpeakably rroubled, which yielded a ſmoke as from fire; and from whence proceeded a voyce unutterable, and very mournful, but inarticulate, inſfomuch that it ſeemed to have come from the Light. 6. Then from that Lighrt,a certain holy Wiozd iopned if ſelf unto Nature , and out-flew the pure and unmixed Fire from the ‘moyſt Nature upward on high; it was exceeding light,- and ſharp, and operative withal. And’the Afr which was alſo light, followed | the @pirit and mounted up to Fire, (from the Earth and the Water) inſomuch chat ir ſecmed to hang and dear ypon i. 2 - And the Earth; and the Water, ſtayed by therfiſclves: ſo mingled togcthet;/thar the Earth could not be ſeen for the Water’;- bur they wete moved,\becauſe bf the Sptriteal wito;d char vs trried upon thethi15ii,s » 82” Ther id Prenannerumioe, | 0

i The ſecond Book T4 Doſt thou underſtand this Gifien, and what it meaneth? I ſhall know, ſaid of Then ſaid he,-J am that Light. inde, thy God, who am befoze th it wi Nature that appeared cuf of darkneſs; and that beight and lightul Wozd ſrom the Hinde, ts the Don of God, 9. How is that quothT? Thus, replyed he, Underſtand it : That which in the ſeth and hezreth, the Uogd cf the 1.02d,. and the inde, the Father, God, differ not one from the 6ther ; and the union of theſe ,1s Life. Ari(meg. I thank thee. Piman). Bur firſt conceive well the Light in thy minde, and know it, 10. When he had thus ſaid, fog a long time we looked ſtedfaſtly one upon the other, inſomuch, that] Lrems bledar’ his Idea or, Fozm 11. But when he added to me, I beheld in my minde;the Light chat is in innumerable ,.;and the truly indehfinite oznament or -wazld; and hat the fire-isGomprehended or contamed in | ; or CE? \

Hermes Triſmes ofie. 1 _ or:by: a moſt’ great Power, and conſtrained to-keep its-ſtation. | 12. Theſe things, I underſtood , ſceing the. ward of er; and when I-was mightily amazet, he ſaid again unto me, Haſt chou ſeen in thy minde that Archerypal Form, -which’ was before the interminaxed and jnfinite Beginning -? Thus Pimander ro me 2; But whence quoth I, or wheres: of -are the - Elements of - Nature made ? Pimandet, Of che; Will; and, Counſel of God ; which:taking the. Word, and. beholding, che; beautiful World ( in the Archetype thereof imicated it, - and-{o made this World, by: the principles and vital Seeds or Soul-like produRions of igfelf.. - *+23. For the inde w_ God, Pale and Female ,” Life and. Light z brought forth-by his Wozd;z;anotherPinde, the Wozkman : .Which being God of rhe Fire, and the Spixit, faſhioned’and formed. ſeyen gyhex Governs. 0355 which in’ a __ | |

* 18 TheſecondBookof the Sentible’ Wozld; wtioſe Government or Diſpoſition is’ called =_ Or Deftiny. \I4s eottaightway leaped out, Or Cxalred it felf from the: downward born Elemenrs/bf God ,: the Wo2dvr Gap, into the clean and pure-Workmanſhip of Nature”; and was united to the Wozkmait’,“WHinde, for it was Conſubſrantial,; and: ſo’the downward. born Blemencs of Nature were lefr without Reafory, char they my be the - onely Mattey.. | - : : 15. Buvthe Uacytonan, Pinde, to-. gether wirththe Wozd, -08nraining che Circles ati Whirtiag them ‘abour, rurned r6urid”as a Wheel: his’ own Worknianſhips; andf{liffered them co be turmed:iffom an indefinice Begining, to afntndererminable End; “for: cy aetCogis white they end. © And thc Tireutation or running cotiid of ahekes” as the Minde willeth, out of thekower or downward-bom Elerhents brought forth unreaſonable Rr ”

Hermes Triſmegh us. 19 or bruiuſh Creatures, for they had no reaſon; the Air flying things, wy the Water fuch as ſwim. | 17.: And the Earth and the Water were ſeparared, either from other, as rhe Mitide would ; and the- Earth brought forth from her (elf; fich Living Creatures as ſhe had,four foot6d and creeping Beaſts , wilde and came. ’ 18. ‘Bur. the Fiche of all thi ngs, the Pinde being Life and Kighe . brought forch Wan; (like unto himfclf, who he-loved’ as his proper- Wirth ; fot he was all beaineous, having! the Imageiof his Father,” | 19.” Forindeed God was Ub6wet. ingly enattiored of his ’ own Forts! ‘or Shape, and deliveretl’unco- it all his own Workmanſhips ‘7i-Bor ‘h& fe and underſtanding the erent | Workman inthe whole, would alſo himſelf fall to ; and 6 d fo’was ſeparated from th&-! ther bejng fn the ſphere of m cher, bin C 2 29, Having :

20 .The ſecond Book of 29; Having all Power,he confidered th the Operations or Workmanſhips of the Szven ; bur they loved him, and/every one made him partaker of his as Order. -And he learning diligently , ind apceſtending their Effſence, and partaking their Nature, reſolved to picrce/and break chrough the Circums ference of the Circles, and to underſtand che Power of him that ſits upon the Fire; 1 ,22;\ And having already allpower of, mortal things, of the Liying, and of, the unreaſonable Creatures of the World , ſtooped.-down iand; peeped through che Barmdny, and-breaking 9p 2b rhe ftxength of rhe-Circles, ve ang. d.-made manifeſt the ” Nature ; the fair ag, beauriful Shape or; Form of C Y i Which, “when he fam. avis - it af She: ’ unſarjable Beauty, and | Wl. $50 peration, of the Seven Gos VEL CE | vernozs,

bernozs, and the Form or Shape of God, he ſmiled for love, as if-hehad ſeen the Shape or Likeneſs in the: Warer, qr the ſhadow upott the Earth of the faireſt Humane form. |. ; 24. And ſceing in the Warc a 2 ſhape, a ſhape like. unto himſelf, in bimſelf he loved i, and woyld. cahabir with it 3 and immediately; upon the reſolution, enſued the Operation, and broughe forth rhe unreaſonable Image or Shape. 25. Nature preſently laying hold of what it ſo much loved, did wholly wrap her ſelf aboutit, and they were mingled , for they loved: one; an» other, 26. And forthis cauſe, Man above all things that live upon Earth , double ; moztal, becauſe of his Body, and immoztal, becauſe of the ſubſtantial Man : For being immortal, and having power of all things, he yer ſuffers: mortal things ,- and {ach as are ſubje& ro Fare or Deſtiny. ”> WS And

2 ThefrodtBoakbt | * ‘27.. And therefore being above all Harmony, he is made and become a fervant to Yarmony. And being Yermaphzodite, or Male and Female , and watchful, he is governed by, and ſubjected to a Father, that is both Male and Female, and watchful. 23. After theſe things, I ſaid, Mhot art my Pinve, andJ am in love with Reaſon. : 29: Then ſaid Pimanyer, This 1s rhe Pyſtery thar to this day is hidden, and kept ſecret , - for Nature being mingled with Man, brought forth a Wonder moſt wonderful ; for he having the Nature-of the Harmony of the Seven, from him whom I told chee, the Fire and the Spirit, Nature continued not, but forthwith broughe forth ſeven Men all gpales and Females,and ſublime,or on high, according to the Natures of the Seven Governors. 30. And after theſe things, O Pomander, -quoth 1, 1am now come - “a into

| Hermes Triſmegiftur. 23 into’ a great defire, and Jonging- to hear, do not digrefs, or run one.” 31. But he ſaid, Keep filence, “for I’ have -not yet finiſhed the firſt ſpeech. + 32.-Triſm. Behold, Tan fitent: 33. Piman, Thie Generation there. fore of theſe ‘@tven was” after “this maner, The Air being Femiſmnine,/and rhe Water defirous. of Copulation, rook from the Fire irs ripenel(s, and from the ther Spirit ;’ and ſo Nature | produced bodies after the Species and ay of men. And Man was mice 6 Life ww; a For into neared: ---agh of Life the @on!, of Light rhe Pinde. 35: And ſoall the Membets: ofthe - Senſible! 2Wo21d, continued uneo the period of the end, bearing rule, and generating. 36. Hear now “the -reft of thar ſich, thou {o much. defrreſt £0 hear. JT« Whentharpiatwwk3KIRUAL C 4 the

24 1heſecond Book-of the bond of all things, was looſed and unticd by, the Will of God, forall living Creatures þcing Bermaphzonitical, or Male and Female, were looſed and untied together with Man ; and fo the Males were apart by themſelves, and the Females likewiſc. | 38. And ſtraight-ways God aid to the Holy Word, Encreaſe in en/ creaſing , and multiply mulfitude all you my. Creafures and Wozkmanſhips. And let bim that is endned with ÞPinde, know himſelf fo. beimmoztal; . and that the cauſe of death is the lobe of the body, andlet him learn all things that are. 29. When he had thus ſaid, Þ2o: vidence by Fate and Harmony, made the mixtures, and eſtabliſhed the Generations, and all things were multiplied according totheir kinde;z and he thar knew himſelf, came ar length ro the Kuperftantial of every way ſubſtantial good. 40. Bur he that through the Error of Love, loved the Body, _ | ‘ct [---=--- .

- Hermes Triſmegiſtus 5 eth wandering in darkneſs, ſcnfiblc, ſuffering the things of death. 41. Trim. Bur- why do they that are ignorant, fin ſo much, that they ſhowld therefore be deprived of immortality £ 47) 31 42. Pimand. Thou, ſeemeſt not ro have underſtood what thou- haſt heard. 43: Triſm. Peradventure I ſeem ſo to thee; ‘but I both underſtand and remember them. 44; Pimand. I am glad, . for thy ſake, if thou underſtoodeſt chem. | 45- Triſm. Tellme why are they worthy. of death, that are 1n death ? 46. -Pimand. Becayſc there goeth a ſad and- diſmal darkneſs before its ’ body, of which darkneſs is the moy(ſt Nature’;z of which moyſt Nature, the Body confiſteth in the ſenſible World , -from whence death is- derived : Haſt thou- underſtood this aright 2 47. Triſm,

26 The ſecond Book of 7. Trim. ‘But why , or how, doth he thar underſtands himſelf, g0Þlli or-paſs into God a8. Pim. That which the Word a of God ſaid, ſay T: Becauſe the Fa-fſc cher of all things conſiſts of Life and Light, whereof Man is made. 49. Triſm. Thou fayeft yery well. 50. Pim, God and the Father is Lighr and Life , of which Man is made. If therefore thou learn and beleeve thy ſelf ro be of rhe Life and Light, chow ſhalr again /paſs into Lite. 51. Triſm- But yet tell me more, O my Minde , how I ſhall: £0 into Life. 52. Pim. God ſaith, Ler the Man endued with a Minde, mark; conſider, and know himſelf well. 53- Triſm. Have not all men a minde ? -o Pim. Take heed what thou ſaycſt, for T the: Minde come unto win that are hol y and good, pure and merciful b a d a £ l 7 a⇐-_---_ wm 79,441 @ _ ce < yall P

w» 2 % W, Aras Triſmegiſtus. 27 | erciful, and thar live piouſly-and re29Fligiouſly ; and my preſenceis’a help rd {7 n ad to them. And forthwith they know all things, and lovingly they ſupplicare and propitiate rhe Father and bleſing him, they give him thanks, and fing hyms unto him, being ordered and direRed’ by filial Affection, and natural Love: And before they pive up their Bodies to the death of them, they hate their Senſes; knowing their Works and Operations. * 55. Rather I that am the Minde it ſelf, will not ſuffer the Operations or Works, which happen or belong ro the body, to be finiſhed and brought to perfection in them ; bur being the Pozfer and Dw2-keeper, I will ſhur up the entrances of Evil, and cut off the thoughtful defires of filthy works, 56; Butrothe fooliſh,and-evil, and wicked, and envious, and covetous; and murderous, and profane, I am far off giving place to the revenging Demon, which applying unto him the ſharpneſs ---

23 TheſccondBook’sf neſs of fire, rormenterh ſuch man ſenfible, and armerth. him the more to all wickedneſs, that he ma obtain the greater puniſhment. 57. And ſuch a one never ceaſeth having unfulfillable deſires, and unſarif | able concupiſcences, and. alwayyf fighting in darkneſs, for the Demon afflits and tormenteth him continual-ſ} | ly, and increaſeth the fire upon him , more and more. 58. Triſm. Thou haſt, O Minde,ſſ moſt excellently ranghr me all things, as I deſired , burttell me moreover, after the return is made, what then 2 59. Pimand. Firſt of all, inthe re-| ſolution of the material Body , the Body. ir ſelf is given up toalteration, and the form which it had, becometh invifible; and the idle maners are permitted, and left tro the Demon, and the Senſes of the Body return into Their Fountains, being parts, and again | made up into Operations. 60. And

\ Hermes Triſmegiſtus. 29 60. And Angerand Concupiſcence go intothe bruitiſh, or unreaſonable Lay Nature; and the reſt ſtriverh upward by Harmony.” 61. And to the firſt Zone it giveth the power it. had of increafing and ditniniſhing. \ 62. Torhe ſccond, the machination or. plotting of evils .and one effeual deceipt or craft.” 63. Torhethird, rhe idle deccipt of Concupiſcence. 64. To the fourth, the defire of x Rule; and unſatiable Ambition. | 65. Tothe fifth, prophane Boldneſs, and the headlong raſkneſs of Confidence. 66, Tothe fixth,Evil and incffeQual occafions of Riches. 67. And tothe ſeventh Zane, ſubtile - Falſhood, alwayes lying in wait; 68. And then being made naked | of. all the: Operations of Yarmany , it cometh to the cighth Nature, having

10 The ſecond Book of having its proper power, and finget! praifes to the Father with the thing that are, and all they that arc preſen rejoyce, and congratulare the comin . of it; -and being made like to then with whotr it converſcth, it hearet alſo rhe Powers that are above the eighth Nature, ſinging. praiſe to God in a certain, voyce that is peculiar rt them. | 300 69. And then m order they retur unto the Father, and rhemſelves deliver themſelves to the powers, ’ and becoming powers, they are in God. 70.- = is is the-Good, and ro them thar know to be defied. 71. Furthermore , why ſayeſt thon; Whar reſterh , but that underſtanding all men,thoy becomea guide, and way-teader to rhem that are.worthy, thar the kinde of Pummity of MBankinde, may be ſaved by God ? * ” 52. Whea Piminder had chy$ſaid |? unto tp,” bewas mingled among the Powets. / 73. Burt

“Hermes T riſmepi/tus. 3T 2. But T giving thanks, and bleſ| fing the-Father of all things, -roſe up, i Dcing enabled by him, and taught the vj Nature; of “the Nate of the whole, J and having ſeen the greareſt {i Tyhe: of ſpectacle.” bf 74. And I began to Preach utito of men, the beauty and fairneſs of Picty and Knowledg. 75- D pePeople,YHen, bozneantd made of -n} {he Carth, which have grver pour ſelvos over fo dzunkenneſs, and flep,and fo the ignozanco 14] *f God, be ſober, and ceaſe yorr-furfeit , **Þ whereto you are allured , - and invitey ‘by bruitih;and unreaſonablefleep. - - ’* /- >-12 76. Andxheythatheard me,come a willingly, and with one accord; and then I ſaid further: ”/: * 77. Why,- D Pen of the Df: ſptingor the ng why have you:deliverwd.yoire ſelves over untodexth, having power to pars: take of immoztality # Repent and change pour mindes, pou that have’together walked: in Crroz, Mmbhavebeen varkned it 1902 ance. ; 78. Depart

32 Ihelecond Book of . | 78. Depart from that dark light, bepar: takers of 1immoztality, and legbe cz fozſaks coaruption. --- Md! 1 79. And {ome of themthat heard me, mocking and .{corning, went away, and delivered: themſclves up.. to the way of death. BO: $0. Bur others caſting themſelves down before my feer, beſoughr me, that they might be taught z bur 1 cauſing themto riſe up, became a guide of mankinde; reaching them the rea{ons.how, and. by what means they may; be ſaved. , And I ſowed inthem the words of Wiſdom, and nouriſhed them. with Ambzofian water of immoz8:. And when.-1t was Evening, andthe Brighrneſs of the ſame began wholly ro-go;down,: I commanded themro go down, I commanded them; to give thanks: ro God: z.;and when: chey had finiſhed. rheir thankſgiving, every one returned to hisgown. lodgng. * 76 B35; 5 \ $2. But

’ Hermes Triſmegiſtus, 23 - Ba, Bur I wrote in my ſelf, the bounty and beneficence of Pimander, ”J and being filled with whar I moſt deWy fired, I was exceeding glad. Y, 83. For theſlcep of the Body was ef the ſober watchfulneſs of the minde ; and the ſhutting of my eyes the.rruc If ſight, and my filence great with © childe, and full of ai - and the I pronouncing of my words, the bloſle} ſoms and fruirs of good things. oi 84. Andthus came to paſs or hapJi pened unto me, which I received from ny my minde, that is, Pimander, the Lord d of” che Word , whereby I became inV} fpired by God, with the Truth. $85. For which cauſe, with my »| Soul; and whole ſtrength, I give nl praiſe and bleſſing unto God the d| Farher. n; a 86. Yoly is God the Father of all $7. Polyis God, whoſe will is perfozmed, and accompliſhed by his own powers, $$. Yoly is God, that defermineth to be CF D known,

24. The ſecond Book of known, and ts known of his -own, 03 thoſe that are his. 89. Yoly art thorr, that by thy Woo haſt eſtabliſhed ail things. 90, Yoly art then, if whom all Nature ts | t;e Jmage. 91, Yolp arf thou, hom Rr” hath not fo2med. 92. Yoly art thou-that arf Cronge then all pover, 93, Yoly art tha, that att greater then aiterceilency, * 94. Yoly art thou, who art better thert all pzatſe; 95. Accept theſe reaſonable wacrilices frm a piirs ſoul, anda heart ſtretched out unto t5e 96, D thou unſpeakable, unufterable fo be p2zaiſed with ſilence! C7. I beſcech thee, that J maynever erre from the ktiowledg of the , lokmercifully upon me, and enable me, and enlighten with this Grace,. thoſe that are inignczance, the Lzothers of my kinde, but thy ſons. 95+ . Therefoze J believe thee , arid bear ; witnels,

; 7 H errmes Triſmegiſtus. 35 vie | and go info the Life and “98c- Bleſſed art thou, © Father, thy man | | would be ſancified with the, as thou halt 5 | givenhimall power. _ ſe The end of the ſecond Book.

INES, 28 SAADADAGDAS EG The Third Book CALLED The Holy Sermon. JHE glory of all things, > God, and. that which is WI Divine, and the Divine Þ Nature, the beginning of ’ * things thar are. 2. God, andthe Minde, and N3ture, and Matter, and Operation, or Working , and Neceſſity , and the End, and Renovation. 3- For there were inthe Chaos, an inkaue darkneſs in the Abyſs or botrvenicſs Depth, and Warcr, and a ſubcile Spirit intelligible in Power ; and there went out the Holy Light, 2nd the Elcments were -coagulated from . I

[ The third Book, OC. 37 from the Sand our of the moylt SubNance. - 4. And all the, Gods diſtinguiſhed &1 Nature full of Seeds. 5. And when all things wezeinrexminated and unmade up, the lizhr ’ things were divided on high. And the heavy things were founded upon the moyſt Sand, all things being Terminated or Divided by Fire, and being | ſuſtained or hung up by the Spirit, they were ſocarried, and the Heavm was (cen in Seven Circles. 6. And the Gods were’ſeen in their Jdeas of the Stars, with all rheir Signes, and the Stars were numbred with the Gods in. them, And the Sphere wasall lined with Ayr, carriabout 1n a circular motion by rhe Spirit of God. 7. Andevery.God by i ineenal power, did that which was commandcd him ; and there were made-four foored things , and creeping things, and ſuchas live in the Water,and ſuch D 3 Eo

33 The third Book off © as flie, and every fruitful Seed, and Graſs, and the Flowers of all Greens, all which had ſowed in theinſelves che Sceds of Regeneration. $8. As alſo the Generations of.men, to | the knowledg of the Divine Works, and a lively or working Teſtt mony of Nature, -and a multitude of men, and the Dominion of: all things under*Heaven, \andche knowledg of good’ things, and ro: be increaſed in increaſing ” and multiplied in multirude. 9. And every: Soul in Fleſh ,by the wonderful workins - of the Gods in the Circles, to the’beholding of -Heaven, the Gods, Divine Works; and the Operations oÞiNature ;- and for Signes::of (good things , ‘and’-the knowledg of the Divine Pdwer; :and ro finde ont: every«Qunning ‘workmanſhip of igood rhings;” 10. Sor beginnetÞtro-live-;n’chem, and ro be wife ’ according ro the Operation: of the contre of the circular At Gods;

Hermes 1T1megirus. 39 Gods ;z.and to be-reſolved into-that whichhall be great Monuments, and Kemembrarices of the cunning Works done upon Earth, leaving themto be read by rhe darkneſs of times. 11. And every Generation of living Fleſh, of Fruit, Sced, and all Handicrafts, though they be loſt, muſt of neceſſity be renewed by the renoyation of the Gods, and of the Nature of a Circle, moving in’nimiber’s | for it is a Divine thing , that every worldly temperature Bould “be: xenewed- by. nature’s for in that which is Divine, is Nature alfo eſtabliſhed. . | Theend of. the Fragments of the third Book; very unperteRt. TT x kl ------ ih. Ad = ------ * , b . . © , # ‘D 4, The

The Fourth Book Called T he Key. SA Eſtecrdays Specch;, O F311 Alclep?us,. 1’dedicared to thee, this: days it <1 “is fit: ‘ro dedicate ‘to . Tat,: becauſciit an Epirome of thoſe general Speeches that were ſpoken to him. 2. God therefore, and the Father, and the Gnod, ‘O Tat. haverhe ſame Nature , or rather; alſothe ſame Act and Operation. © *© 3- Forthere is one name orappelTation of Nature and Increaſe, which cancerneth things changeable, and another about rings ---_---__ an

ww TY Fen ww * OY --- WMES * riJmev IT4us . Al | and about things unmoveablc, : rhar is co ſay, Things Divine and Humane; every oneof which, Himſelf will have ſo to bez but action or operation,is of another thing, / or elſewhere as we have taught in other things, Divine and Humane, which/muſt here alſo be underſtood. Ts _ 4. Foz his Dperatin’s2 Act,is his Win, and his-E ſence, fo will all-things to be. 5. For whar-is God, and: the Father, and the Good, bur the Being of all things that: yer arc not; -and the exiſtence it {elf,’ of thaſe thirigs thar arc’? -;; Sſ] ..+ } 4, ‘L IX BR | 6:.:/This is God, this is the Father, this isthe Good, ‘whereunto.no other . thing is preſent or approacheth..:;7: -For the Wozld, | and” the tun, which js alſo a Father by Participation, Is not forall thatequally the cauſe of : Good,. and of: Life, to living Creatures: And if this be ſo, he is alto- gether conſtrained by the Will of the Good, without which, it is not _ c

1E TC rer Sj10\‘h 0 L. ble, cicher ro be,-or to.be begotten ork, made. “to ft; 8. /Bur the Father is the: cauſe x Tr his Children, who hath a wiltboth ro ſowe andnouriſh that which is good by the un. + © | 9: For Good is always aQive or buſic in making; and this cannot be in anpother, but in him that irakerh nothing, and yet willeth all things to. be z for I will not fay, O-Tat, making chem ; for he that maketh,is defective in much time, | in which ſometimes he maketh not , -as !alſo of quantity and quality z for ſomerimes he makerh thoſe things thar, have. quantiry-and quality, and. ſometimes the: contrary. TEL 20 0107; 20. But God is the Father, and .the Good, in being all things; “for he both-will bechisandis-ic, ‘and yer all this for himſelf (as is true) in himchar car{ce it. 4 Rc xr. For all things elfe- are for tits, it” ts rhe- property of’ “Good to 7 | “gs F m

bs F. Fs | ZREVMECS LV] 14/l ‘s 42 UBe: known : » This is the: Goody» ® 12. Mat. Thowhaſt filled us, O I Father, with a fight, both goad: and ir, and the eye. of my mitide gs al’ Imoſtbecome more holy by the fight h 13; Mriſm. J wonder nof af if, for 22} che light of God is nor; like the Beamn.of Of che Ent, which bang of a’fiery ſhiung S | brightneſs, maketh’the eye blinde:by « his excefſive Light, char gazerh [upon | it, rather the contrary, for-it enlight-eneth., and ſo’much_ increaſerhvthe lighr.of the eye, :asany mail is ableco receive’the influenceof this intelligiy ble clearneſs.. - : 257 DR 31 . “T4. iFor it is more ſwift uid co picrce , and: innocent or karr withal,“-andifullof immortality :and rhey that are capable, and candiaw anyftore of rhis-ſpecacle, and{ight, do many times fall afleep from-the Body, intorhis-moſt fair and: beauteous Viſion; which thing Celins-and

c fourth Book of 44+ Saturn our Progenitors, ‘obrained unto. | 15. Tat. I would we alſo, .O ther, could do ſo: 7 16. Triſm., 1 would we could; O Son ; bur for the preſent we arc leſs intent to the YVifion , and-cannot yet, open the eyes of our mindes to behold the incorruptible, and incomprehenſible Beauty of that Good :- Bur then ſhall-we ſecir, when we have nothing at all to ſay of ir, 17. For the knowledg of it, is a Divine Silence, and the reſt of all the Senſes : For neither can he that underſtands that , underſtand any thing elſe, nor he that ſees that, ſeeany ching elſe, nor hear-any- other thing, norinfum, move the Body. 18. For ſhining: ſtedfaſtly upon , and round abaut the whole Minde, it enlighteneth all rhe Soul ; and looſing it fromthe Bodily Senſes and Motions, it. draweth ir from the Body, and changeth it wholly intothe Eſſence . of Gad. 19. £02

f } | are chang ned * Hermes Triſmegiſur. 45 19. F02 if is poſsible foz the @out | D 2-5 Pon, fo be deified white pet if lodgethin the -| Bodyof Þan, if it contemplate the beauty of the God, 20, Tat. How doft thou mean deifying, Father ? ’ 21. Trifm, There are differences, O Son, of every Soul. 22. Tat, But how doſt thou again . divide the changes ? 23. Triſm. Haft thou not _--- the general Speeches, that from 0 Soul of the univerſe, arc all thoſe Souls , which in all the world are toſſed up and down, as it were, and ſeverally divided 2 Of theſe Souls | thereare many changes, ſome intoa more fortunate eſtare, and ſome quite contrary ; for they which are of creeping things, are changed into thoſe of watery things ; and thoſe of things living in the water, to thoſe of things living upon the Land ,z and Airy ones ed into men, and bumane Souls, that lay hold of jpumonalicy,

4:6 Thefourth Book of are changed inro Demons. | 24, And fo’they go on into the Sphete or Region: of the fixed Gods, for there are two quiers or Companies of Gods, one of them thar wander, and another of them thar are fixed : And this is themoſt perfe& glory of the Soul. | FE: GY *25.- But the Soul entring to the Body of a Man, if it continneevil, ſhalt neither raſte of immortality, nor | is partaker of thegood. __ 26. But being drawn back the fare way , irrerurneth into’creeping gs. And this’ts the condenination of an evil Soul.” © 27. Andthe wickedneſs of a Soul, & i2fiorance ; forthe Soul that knows nothing of the things chat are, neither the Nature of them, ‘nor that which 5pood, but is blinded, ruſheth and datheth againſt rhe bodily Paſſions ; and unhappy, as it is, not knowing it ſelf, ir ſerverh ſtrange Bodies, and evil ones, carrying the Body as a __. bunches,

- nor hears many things _ that heareth Exp. Hermes Triſmegiſtus. 47 burthen; and not ruling, but tuted. And this’is the miſchief of the Soul. _ 28: Onthe contrary, the vertueof che Soul is Knowledg ; for he that know’s,is both good and religious,and. already Divine. © 29. Tat. Bur who is ſuch a one, * > _ © CN 30. Trifm, He tliar neither ſpeaks, ; for he,O SON, ecches or hearings, fighteth in the ſhadow. $ ’ 3r. For God, and the Father, and’ Good, 1s neither ſpoken nor heard. * , - 32.” This being fo in all things that arc, arerhe Senſes,” becauſe they can-’ not be withourcthem..-. 33. ‘But-Knowledg differs muck from Senſe; for Senſe is of things that ſarmountir, but’Knowledg is the {+ | 34. Knowleds i the gift of God; for all Knowledg’is unbodily, bur uſerh’the Minde as an Inftrument, as the Minde uleth rhe Body. | 35+ There© ” v

that is, ſetting dne_againlt another , -and contraricty, all things mutt confif#. And ir is impoſſible ic thould be otherwiſe. 36, Lat. - Who therefore is this material God ? et 37-: Trifmr. The fair and beautiful World, and yet itis nor good , for it is marcrial, and eaſily paſhble, nay, ir is che firſt of all paſhble things, and the ſecond of the things that are, and needy or wanting ſomewhart elſe. And it was once made, and is always, and is cycr in generation, and made, and continually makes, or generates things that -have_quantity and quawe” For itis moveable, and every material motion is generation ; bur the meclle tual ſtability moves the mategal motjon after this maner. _ 39. Becauſe the World is a Sphere, Chas is, a head, and above the wr Tg | there 48 The fourth Book of | 35. Therefore both intelligible: and material things, go both of them into bodies, for, of contrapoſition, Sw ws A. 4 OS ov -ai

the feer thereisnothing’intelleQual. 40. The whole univerſe is material::’ The ‘Minde’is-the head, and itis moved ſpherically , that is like a 41. Whatſoever: cherefre 1 is joyned or.uniced ro ‘the Membrane or Film of this head ; © whetcin the Soul is, is immortal, and as inthe Soul of a’made Body, hath irs Soul full of the Body ; but thoſc: that are further from that Membrane, have the Body full y Soul. . The wholeis a bving wight, and rae! conſfiſterh of material, and dk 2 And the World i is’the rſt: and Man the ſccondhving wighr after che World , - bur the firſt of things’ that are morral-; and therefore hath whatſoever benefit of the Soul all the other have : Andy et for all this, he is not onely not dg but flatly evil, asbeing ---_ | E 44 For | thete’is. nothing material ; 4s beneath

50 The fourth Book of 44- For the World is not good, as ir is moveable, nor evil, as it is immortal. 45. But man 1s evil, both as he is moveable, and as he is mortal. 46. But the Soul of Man is. carried in this maner , The Minde is in Reſon, Reaſcn.in the Soul, the Soul in the Spirit, the Spirit in the Bodp . 47. The Spirit being diffuſed, and going through rhe veins, and arteries, and blood, both moveth the living Creature; and after a certain’ maner bearerh ir. 48. Wherefore ſome alſo have thought rhe Soul co be blood, being deceived in Nature, not knowing that firſt the Spiric muſt return into the Soul, and then the blood is congealed, the. veins. and arteries emptied, and then the living thing dicth : And this is the death of the Body. 49- Allthings deperid of one beginnings ahd the beginning depends of that which is one and alone. 50. And pb, a xt <Q A OY ©» A ----_ MP A hd oa ef oe £&

p""_ a Ox _--- _--- Hermes Triſmegifits. 51 50. And the beginning is moved, that ir may again be a beginning ; bur that which is one, ſtandeth and abideth, and is not moved. 51. There are therefore theſe three, God the Father, and the God, the Uozld and Pan; God hath the World, and the World hath Man ; and - the World is the Son of God, and Man as it were the Off- ſpring of the World. 52. For God is not ignorant of man, but knows him perfely, and will be known by_him. This onely is healrtiful to man, the Knowledg of God: This is the return of Olymptis z by. this onely the Soul is made 200d, and not ſometimes. good, and omeEtimes evil , bur of neceſhity Good, - | 7 - 53. .Taf, What meancft thou, O Father? _ IE 39-2 54. Triſni. Conſider, O Son, the Soulgf a Childe, when asyct ithath received no diffolution-of irs Body, 7. MK » 

The fourth Book of which 1s-not yer 8 or0wn, but 1s very ſnall: how then If it look upon It (clf, it ſees ir ſelf beauriful, as nor havin? been yet ſported with the Paſſtons. of the Body, bur as it were depe1ding_’ yer ypon the Soul of the World. ‘55.” Burt when the Body is grown and diſtraQerh; the Soul it ingenders Fotgerfulneſs, 2nd partakes no Jp mes of rhe Fair, and the God, and HO fulneſs is Evilneſs. $6: The like alſo happeneth to them thar go out of the Body : For when the Soul runs back into it ſelf, the Spirit is contra&ted into the blood, and rhe Soul into the Spirit z but the Minde being made pure, and free from’ theſe cloathings and being Divine by Nature, raking a fiery Body, rangerh abroad in every place, leaving rhe Soul to judgment, and ro the pariſhment i it hath deſerved. “Tat. Why doſt thou ſay ſo, 0 Father, Thar the Minde’is Es rom ! A wwe - - ac wc --- ---bo om ful} If tw and Wand == FY ths ww * . Ba

Hermes Trifmbgiſtts “4 : from’the’Soul, and clie/S$ul Teorf thi Spirit 2 | When-evehi now tlifu Aſt the’Soul was the Cloathing.’ oi Apparret of the- Minde; ad th heB3dy Y, of the Soul. - *! ©: $8.*Trif.n. 0 $6, he gy muſt eo-underſtand; and coR’pif© in thoupht with him: thar ſpeaks? yea, he muſt have his: heating Fvifrer and ſharper; then * the YoyeE “6f “the” ſpeaker: - * 59. Th? diſpoſiti>n of theſ: la ings’ of Covers ,-:is done: inflthe tn Earthly Body z- fot ic’is iyoMble, thar the Minde touts eſti: mh of teſt it ſelf, naked; and’ of ir ſelf,” i an Earthly Body : neither is tlie E xrthly Bodyable to beari ſuch imfaſtriabity +/ Andichereforc, thatir mis hoftiffer [ts | great vertge, the Minde com patted hs! it were, and took to ir felf theipitalyle: Body of the Soul{’ as a CoVeting’or a Cloathing. Andthe Soubbeiad* alſo in.fome ſort Divirie, uſeth rhe Spirit _ Miniſter amd: Servant; and rhe-”3 Spirit ”--- I. *

54 The ourth Book of Spirit. governeth the living - thing. - 60. When therefore the Minde1s ſeparated, and. departeth from -the Earthly Body, preſently it puts on its Fiery which it conld not do, having to:dwell in an Earthly Bady. 61… For the Earth cannot ſuffer fire, for it is all burned of a ſmall ſpark , thexcfore is the water poured, round; about the Eatzh, as a Wall or = to withſtand the flame of 1 oof ES 62. But the Minde being the moſt ſharp or ſwift of all rhe Divine Cogirations, and more {wift rhen all the Elements, hath the-fice for irs Body: 63. For the Minde which 1s.‘the Workman of all, uſerh the fire as his Inſtrument in his workmanſhip ;: :;and he thatiisrhe Workman of all, uferh it to the making of all chings, as-it is uſed by.man, to the making of Earthly things gnely ; fatche Minde that 18 upon Earth, voyd,.or naked of fire, cannot, do.the—bufigeſs of men; nar ; | 6 | that

Hermes Trifmegiftus. 55 that which is otherwiſe the affairs of God. | | ” 64. But the Soul of Man, and yet not eyery one, bur that which is pious and religious,is Angelical and Divine. And fuch a Soul, after it is departed from’the Body, having ſtriven the ſtrife of Picty, becomes either Minde | or God. 65. And the ſtrife of Piety is to know God, and to injurn no Man; and this way it becomes Minde. 66. But an impious Soul abiderh in irs own eſſence, puniſhed of ir ſelf, and ſeeking an carthly. and humane Body to enter into. SES 67. For no other Body is capable of an Humane Soul, neither is iz lawful for a Mans Soul to fall into the Body of an unreaſonable living thing : Forit is the Law Gor Decree of God, to preſerve an Humane Soul from ſo orear a contumely and reproach. 68. Tat. How then is the Soul of Man puniſhed, O Father z and | E 4 what

56 The fourth Book of what. 1s its. greateſt torment, 69- Herm. Impiety, O my +56 for what Fire, hath ,ſo.great.a flame as as it ? .Or what biting Beaſt doth ſo rear the Body, as 1; doth the Saul. 70. Or doſt thay not ſee how many Evils the wicked Soul ſuffereth, . roaring and crying out, Jam burned, Jam - conſumcd, J know not what fo ſay, -02 do, am devoured, wmhbappy v-2efch, of the evils thif compaſs, and lzy hold tizo:zme $5 miſer able that J am, ca ſx no; hear any {hing. 71. | Theſe are the voyces “of a puniſhed and rormented Soul, and not as many ; and thou, O Sn, thinkeſt, rhat the Soul going out of the Body, grows. bruitiſh or enters into a Beaſt ; which is a very great Error, for the Soul puniſhed after this maner. 72.. For the Minde, when. it is ordered ot appointed to get a fiery Body for the ſervices of God, coming down into the wicked Soul, torments It with the w22ips of Sin Ss, whetewich rhe

2 I Gd . =_---_ oy ,* 0 TY , pw ” & YFS = _--- \& OO + ” HI - Hermes Try(megiftis, 57 1e wicked Soul beipg ſcourged turns it ſelf ro:Murchers, 4nd Contumelics, and Blalphemics, and divers Violences: ang, other things, by which,men are injured : it £15.27 1.000 218 73+, Bur, into. ;a.pious. Soul ,,. the Minde eatering,leags it into,the lLaght of Knoyledg. 7 . 174», And ſucha Soul is never {atisfed with finging praiſe To.Ocp, and ſpeaking well of. all men;,and-borh in- words, and forges , always doins good in imiratian.gt,her Father../ 75. /Therefoxe,,,Q, Son,” we, mult give, thanks, and. pray, that we may. obtain a good minde, \ JIE - 79+. The. Soul. therefore:may- be altered or changed: into the,,berter , but jnrothe worſc’it.is impoſhible. . 77. But there is a commynion of Souls ; andthoſe pf Gods, commu-. nicate-with thaſe.men; and thoſe of men, with thoſe of Beaſts. ’_ 8. And the better always take of VA worſe,. Gods of Men, Men of | | bruir

58 The fourth Book of bruit Beaſts, but. God of all : For he is the beſt of all, and allthings are * ” leſs then he. | 79. Therefore is the World ſubjet unto God, Man unto the_World, and unreaſonablethings tro Man. 80. Bur God is above all,” and 2bour all; and the beams’of Godare operarions ; and-the beams of the World are Natures; and the beams of Manare Arts anv Sciences. $1. And Operations do a by the World, and-upon’man by the natural beams of the World , ut Natures work by the Elements, and man by Arts and Sciences. 82. And this is the Government of the whole, depending upon the Nature of the Dne, and piercing or coming down by the £Dne Yinde, then which nothing is more Divine, and more efficacious ox operative z and nothing more uniting , or nothing 1s more Bw The Communion of Gods to Men, and of Mcnto Gods. 83. Thus

Hermes Trifmegiftu. 59 $3, This is:the Banus ganins/ or Wh Demon: bleſſed Soul thar isfull<|t of it! and unhappy Soul: thar-i is empty-of ir. 84. Taf. Andwherefore Father? $5. Trilm. Know Son, that every Soul hath the Gad Minde ;. for. of chat it ‘is we now:{peak, and norof that Miniſter, of which we ſaid) before, That he was ſenu from the Judge ment. 86. For the Soul without the Minde, can’\ncitherdo, nor ſay-any thing ; for many times the Minde flies away from the Soul, and inthat hour the Soul - neicher ſeeth nor heareth, bur 15 like an unreaſonable thing z ſo great is the power of the Minde. | $87. Burt neither brooketh ir an idle or lazy Soul , bur leaves ſuch a one faſtned ro the Body, and by it preſſed down. 88. Arid: ſuch a Soul; O Son, hath no. minde 5 wherefore neither mult ſuch a one becalled a Man. OE STM $9, For.

60- The fourth Book of 89. - For Man is’a_ Divine living . thing; and is not»to be compared ra any bruit Beaft that lives upon Earth, bur to them that are above.in Heaven! that are called Gods. 4 90. Rather, if-we ſhall be bold to ſpeak the truth, che thar is:a’man indeed, is above them, or atleaſt they are equal in power, one to the other: For none of the things in Heaven will come down upon Earth , and leave che : limits of Heaven, but’ia. man aſcends up into-Heaven, and meaſures Will 96311 5171 Qt ; 91. And heknowerh what things are on high, and what below , -and learnethall other things exactly. 92. And that whichis the greateſt of all, he leaverh- not the Earth, and yetis above : - So great is the greatneſs of his Nature. -. 643 92. Wherefore we muſt be bold. ta ſay, That an Eatthlyman;:isga moztal GC2d ; and that the heavenly God, is an im: : moztal an, LR $2553 5d-IM0 £ (40! “AT 4 94. Where 

Hermes Triſmegiſtus. 61. 94. Wherefore, by theſe twoare all chings governed, the World, and Man bur they and all things elfe, of that which is Dne. } The end of the fourth Book. +

/ LL! \ 64444353444 . The Fifth Book. That God 1 not manifeſt, and yet moſt manifeſt. dHis Diſcourſe I will kaNg allo make to thee, JA O Tat, thar thou ) mayſt not be ignorant of the more excellent Name of “God. ’ 1.2, Bur dothou contemplate in thy Minde, how thar which ro many | ſeems hidden and unmanifeſt, may be molt manifeſt unto thee. 2. Forit were not all, if it were apparent, for whatſoever is apparent, 15 generated or made ; for it was made manifeſt, % i$$4+$$+4+ $4+

| * Thefifth Book, &c. -6; manifeſt,” but thar which is not manifeſt isever. -þ 4: For it neederh not to be manifeſted, for it is always. 5. And he maketh all other things manifeſt, being unmanifeſt , as being always, and making other things manifeſt, he is not made manifeſt. 6. Himſelf is not made, yer in fantafic hefantaſierh all things, or in appearance he maketh them appear g for appearance is onely of thoſe things that are generated or made, for appearance 15 nothing but generation. 7. Bur he that is Dne, that is not made nor generated, is alſo unappa= rent and unmanifeſt. Fro 8. Bur making all things appear, he appeareth in all, and by all; bur | | eſpecially he is manifeſted to, or in | thoſe things wherein himſclf liſteth. | 9. Thou therefore, O Tat, my Son, pray firſt co the Lozd and Father, and corhe Alone, and to the Dne, from whom is one to be merciful to _ ---- 

64. The Rfch/Book of that thou mayeſt know and-underſtand ſo great a God., and thathe would ſhine one of his beams upon thee in thy underſtanding. ,, . .-10.: For onely the Underſtanding ſces that whichis not manifeſt; or apparent, as being ir {elf not.ma nifeſt or apparent; andf thou canſt, O Tat, ic will appear tothe eyes of thy{minde. - 11. Forthe Lord, voyd’of envy, appcareth. througti the whole world. Thou mayeſt ſee; phe intelligence; and take it’in thy hands; and. contemplate - the mage of God. + | .- But if char Thich i$ tn thee; be Not Rr or apparent . unto: thee , how ſhall he in thee be. ſeen; and appear unto theeby the eyes? 13. Bur if thou wilt ſee him, cone fider and underſtand the un, conſider rhe coirſe of the Yon, confider the order of the Sfars.:- : 1 14. Who is he thatkeepeth orders : for all order ‘is. circumſcribed or tcr= Minarcd in number and place… :… ; x5: The

--- Hermes Thiſmegiſtis. 65 - 15; The Sun;;is, the greateſt of the Gods in Heaven,to-whom all thehea-venly. Gods give place, as,toia King: and potentate ; and yet he being ſuch; a one, greater then ‘the- Eaxth oxche Sea, is content to ſuffer infinite leffer, Stars’to:walk and move aboye himſelf: whom dath he fear the while, Q. Son * ti 11S WTF . 4-4 | T; 3 —:16, Every one of-theſe:Staxs-thar, are in:‘Heaven,-do not make the hke; or an equal courſe. 3! ; who! 1s It, har, hath preſeribed-yntoievery one, ;themaner arid the a Gag jo colrfee: , 2 nity by pogo nit 17.; This Bear that turns,round. abour its ‘own ſelf, and carrigs round. the whole :World:-with, hexr,, who poſſeſſed: .and; made; ſuck an, Jnſtru-, ment ome 3 oo (tn 2! fotdve 36648 18.; Who. hath ‘{erthe bounds to, the Sea * who hath cſtabli ;khe., ’ Eanth *-. for rhexe,,is, ome, Bod: © + Tat,that is the.Maker ps ye EF: theſe things. & OOCTH 315 36613 £9GLHS Þ | 19Xor ‘CRI6S C l “4

W- -“The fifth Book of ‘PBor it is impoſſible, O Son, chi Lite place, or number, or mcaſure-; ſhould be obſerved wichout 2 Matet. 26 for Ho order” can be made by diford rderor diſproportion. VEL Y” would! it were poſhble for t bees my Son, -td have wings, and to fic into the Air, and being taken vi iff rhe inidſt, beeween’ Heaven’ and Eithofee the ſtability of che Earth, the Aultnels of the Sea, the courſes of rhe RiyeBs,/ the- largeneſs of the Air, che ſharpneſs or ſwiftneſs of the Fire, the motion of the Stars, and the a rmmoneie of the Heaven, by which ir goeth round abour-all theſe. 24. .O’Son, what a happy fight ir were, i one inſtant, to ſee all theſe ; that which is unmoveable moved;and char Winch i hidden appear and be marii bal; 6/4 a If thiu wilt fee and behold this Workman, -even by mortal things that are upon Earth, and inthe deep,

Hermes Trifmegiſur. 697 deep, confider, O Son, how Ban is made and framed in the Womb ; and examine diligently the skill, and cuning of the Workman, and learn whe it was that wrought. and faſhioned che beautiful and Djvine ſhape of Pan; who circumſcribed and marked onr his eyes 2 who bored his noſtrils and cars? who opened his mouth, who ſtrerched out and tied rogerber his finews © who channelled the veins 2 who hardned and made ſtrong rhe bones ? who clothed the fleſh with Skin ? who divided the fingers and the joynts © who flatred, and made broad the ſoals of the feet £ who diged the pores £ who ſtretched qurt he ſpleen « who made the Heart like a Pyramts 2 who made the Liver broad? . who made the Lights ſpungy, and full of holes ? ws made rhe belly large and Capacious 2 who fer to outward view, the more honorable parts, and hid the filthy ones, | 24. See how many Arts in one F 2 Marter,

6 2 | -.The fifth Book of Marter, and how many Works in one Superſcriprtion, . and all exceedingly beauriful,and all done in meaſure, and yer all differing.. 25: Who hath made all theſe things? what Mother 2 what Father * ſayeonely God that is not manifeſt.? that made all things by his own. Wil. 26.: And no man ſays that a ſtatue or an,image 15 made without a Carver ora Painter, and-was this Work manſhip made without a, Workman : O great Blindneſs, - O great Impiecy, O great Ignorance, Never, O Son Tat, canſt thou © FRA the Workmanſhp of the Workman, rather it is the beſt Name of all the Names of God, to cal: him the Father of all, for fo heis alone ; and this is his work ro be the Father. 28. And if thou wilt force me to ſay any thing more boldly, it is his Eſſence to he pre; Znant, or great wich all chings, aud co make taem. | 29. And

Hermes T riſmegiſtus. 69 - 29: ‘And as without a Maker, icis impoſſible chat ‘any ow ſhoald+ be made’, ſo it is that heſhouldmotalways be, and always be making all things in Heaven, inthe Aitg/ inrche Earth ,’ in the. Deep, in the whole World., and inevery- part oÞ the whole;rhar i is; or that1s nots! * 30. For there is acctabwnatle whole World,thar is not himſelf;hoth the things thar: are,.: and the: gs thar are nor. F-z1 it . 31. For chethings har weikcharh made. manifeft z and the. things ehat are not;ihe hath hid in himſelf… 32% Thisis Godthatisberter then | any name ; this is -he thatasſecreri this is-lie that i is fnoſt manifeſt; .rhis is he thit’ is: ro: be-feen by the Minde; this :is: he that. is-viſible to-the-eye y this is he thathith’no body ;‘{and:this is he: that hath many bodies; rather there is nothing of-any body, ch 15 not Ye. ; 33- For he alone is all things… | 3 34. And

70. The fiſth Book of 34. Arid fo2 this cauſe he hith Al Names, becaifſe he ts the Dne Father ; and thereſoze he hathitio Name, becauſe he is the Father of all. » 35-. Who therefore can bleſs thee, or give thanks for thee, or to thee, ‘,.36.- Which way ſhall T look,when I praiſe thee £ upward 2 downward 2 outward ? inward * ES 37. For about thee there is no maner,nor place, nor any thing elſe of all chings hs are. | 38.” Burt all things: arc in thee; all things - from thee, rhou giveſt all things, -and rakeſt;nothing z ‘for- thou haſt alt things,’: and there is nothing tharrhon halt nor-: * | J9, - When ſhall I -praife thee, O Father’s for it is neither poſſible ro comprehend thy hour, nor thy time ? 49. For whac:ſhall T praiſe thee 2 for whar thou haſt made, brfor what chou haſt noc made e for rhoſo things thou haſt manifeſted , or for thoſe things thou haſt hidden ? 41. Where 

| Hermes Triſmegiſtus. 71 41.. Wherefore ſhall I praiſe thee as being of my ſclf, or any thing ie op.haegadir tor 1-4-0. others ? 42. For thowart what Tam, thou art whar I do, thou art what Hay. 43- Thou art all things, and there, ts ngthing eiſe thoa artnot;; © WING 44. Khou art thou, alt that is made, and all that is nof made, 45: The Hinds thak und. 46. Whe Father that makety. mn eth, A IE; 47. The Geodthat wozkeſh, = 48. The God that doth all things. © ; 49. Of rhe Marter, the - 4 tile and ſlender: parts Air, of th& Air rhe Doul, of rhe’ Soul che inde, ofiche Minde God. 3c fn 32 EU | The end of the fi Bork:

“The Sixth Boak:That in God lone ago MAID? © 00 > Afclepins , -is in SANS k_ but in:God a> | lone, orrather God himMt=<<xs 1{clt is. che Good always. 29:14, 2« Anditit- WT. muſt he be-an Effence-or Subſtance, voydi of all motion; and generation ; but; :nothung-is{:voyd or empty of him. . And this Eſfence’ hath abour or in hit {cli a Stable, and firm Dperatton, 71 nothing; moſt full;and oving abundantly. | One thing is the Beginning 0 A , for ir giveth all things; and

The ſixth Pook, e&&c. pu and when 1 name the Good, -I mean that.which is alrogether, and aways Good. : 5.) This is preſent f0 none; bus, God alone;: for he wanteth nothing, thar he ſhould deſire to have it] nor.can any thing be taken from him |; rhe loſs whereof may grieve him 5: ’ for ſorrow is a’ part ot: evilneſs. 6. Nothing is ſtronger then. he, that he ſhould be oppoſed by irs; nor nothing, equal to “7-4 that he;ſhould be inlove with it; . nothing! unheard of to be angry , with nothing pier ro be envious at. 7.; And none of theſe being. in his Eſſence, what remains, bur.onely, the Goqd:? $.: For as in this, being ſuch an Eſſence; therc,is noge of the evils ; ſo in none of the: gtherthings thall the Good be found. | 9: For in all gtherrhings, ire all thoſe other things,as well in the ſmall as the.great , andas well in the par| ticulars,

“74. The fixth Book of ticulars, as in this living Creature z che greater, and mightieſt of all. 10. Forall things that are made or generated, are full of Paſhon , Generation it ſelf being a Paſſhonz and where Paſſion is there is not. the Good; where the Good is, there is no Paſſion ; where-it is day, it is nor | night, and where it is night; it is nor av. | .( FT: Wherefore it is impoſſible , that in Generation ſhould be the Good, but onely in that which’is nor venerated or made. . 12. Yet as the Participation of all things is in the Matter bound, ſoalſo of that which is Good. Afeer this maner.is the World good,as irmaketh all things , and-inthe part of _---_ Or doing (mult) it s Good, bur in other things not good. bg 15. Forit ispafſible, and moveable, and the Maker of /paſfible things, 12/08 14. In Man alfo the Govd- 1s ordered

Hermes Triſmegiſtus. 75 dered (d2 takethdinomination) in compariſon of that which is evil ; forthar which 1s not very evil, is here Good and that which is here called Good, is the leaſt particle, or proportion of evil. I5. It is impoſſible therefore, thar the Good fhould be: here pure from Evil; for here the Good groweth Evil, and growing Evil, it doth nor (till abide Good ; and. nor abiding Good,it becomes evil. | 16. Therefore in God alone. 1s the Good, .orrather God’s the Good. 17. Therefore,. O Aſclepins, there 1s nothing in men (c2 among men) bur the name of Good, the thing ir ſelf is nor, for it is impoſſible; fora material Body’ rebeiveth :(. oz cxrmpachrmaeth ) is not as being on every ſide encompals» ed, and|coar&ted! with evilneſs; and labots, -and griefs;‘and defares,, and wrath, and deccipts, and fooliſhoptnlOAS: : 1 HW 1 þ 13. And inthatwhich isthe _ (©

76 The ſixth Book of of all, Aſclepius, eyery one of the forenamed things, is here beleeved to be the greateſt-good-, .cſpecially rhar ſupream miſchief «52: 4acviz the pleaſures of the Belly, and the ring-leader of all evils : Error is here the abſence of the Good. F-71 19.And I give thanks unto God;thar conceming the-Knowledg of Ged, t: this aſſurance in. my minde, that ir. is impoſſible it. ſhould bein the World. HT70 30 20.” For the) World is the fulneſs of eviinz!s; but God is the fulnel(s of Good, or Good’of God. * 21; For theeminencies of all appearing Ecaury:,: arc in rhe: Eficncc more—pure:, and. /more-fincere,; and peradventure they: arc alſo:the Eſſences of it. 919” x 4 22. For we muſt;be bold. ro. ſay, Aſclepius , That the Eſſence :of God, if he have an Eſſence, is. 73 way thar which 1s fair or beautiful ; but nq good ts comprehended in this World. | 2.3. For

Hermes T1 riſmegiſtus. w_ - 23. For all things that are ſubje& tothe eye, are Idols, and-as it were ſhadows z but thoſe things that are not ſubject to the eye, are ever, eſpe cially the EQCence- of che-Fair and the Good..: | 24. And as the cyec cannot ſee God, ſo neither the Fair, and the Good. | | | 25. Fortheſe are the parts of God that partake the Nature of rhe whole, proper, and familiar unto hunalone, inſeparable , moſt lovely , whereof cither God is enamoured, or they are enamoured of God. | 26. If thou canſt underſtand God, thou’ ſhalt underſtand the Fair» and the Ged, which is moſt ſhining , and enlighrening , and moſt enlightened by God. | 27. For that Beauty is above com: pariſon, and that Good is inimitable, as God himſelf. 28. As therefore thou underſtandcit God , ſo underſtand the Fair, and the

“28 -Thetkb Book of - | the Good, for theſe are incommunis cable toany other living Creatures, becauſe they are inſeparable from God. 29. If thou feek concerning God, thou ſcekeſt or askeſt alſo of- the Fair, for there 1s one way that leads to the ſame thing, thar is Piety with Knowledg. 30. Wherefore,they that are ignoranr, and go nat inthe way of Piety, dare call Man Fair and Good, never ſecing ſo much as in adreim, what Good is ; but being infolded and w:3pped uponall evil, and beleeving that chic eyil is the Good, they by thar means, both uſe it unſatiably, and are afraid to be deprived of it z and therefore they ſtrive by all poſſible means, that they may not onely have it, bur alſo encreaſe it. 31. Such, O Afteving,” are the Good and Fairthings of men, which we can neither love nor hate ; forthis is the hardeſt ching of all, that we _ nce

Hermes Triſmegiſtus. 79 need of them, and cangor live without them. Theend of the ſixth Book. 

$0 CEEEIE LIL ELY EAA ELIA ELLADETED: The Seventh Book. His fecrer Sermon in the Mount of Regeneration , and the Profeſs1on of Silence. To bi Son Tat. SK Af. In the general Speech- > Cs, O Father, diſcourſing EI of the Divinitie , thou *F » ſpcakeſt enigmarically , and didſt notcleerly reveal thy (elf, ſaying , That no man can be ſaved before Regeneration. 2. And when I did humbly intrear thee,

\ thee; at the going up. to the Mountain, after thou hadſt diſcourſed unto me, having a great defire to [learn this Argument of Regeneration ; becauſe among all the reſt, I am ignorant onely of this thou toldſt me thou wouldſt impart it unto me, when I would eſtrange my ſelf from the World : whereupon I made my ſelf ready, and have vindicated the underſtanding that isin me, from the deceitof the World. | | 3. Now then fulfil my defedts , and: as thou ſaidſt inſtrut me of Res generafton, either by word of mourh, or ſecretly ; for I know not, O Trife meg:lfus, of whar Subſtance,or what Womb, or what Secd a Man ‘is thus born. ko 4. Þerm. O. Son, this Wiſdom’is ro be underſtood in filence, and the Secd is the true Good, _ 5 Tet. Who ſoweth ir,O Father £ = I am utterly ignorant, and doubtul. ; G 6; Verm g-” + Hermes Triſmegiſtar. $1

| 8: Theſeventh Book of 6: Betm. The Will of God, O Son, * | 7. And what maner of Man is he, that is thus born 2 for in this point, I am clean deprived of the Eflence that underſtanderh in me. 8. Y*rm, The Son of God will be another, God made the uniyerſe, thar In . every , thing confiſteth of all powers. 9. it. Thou telleſt me a Riddle Father, and doſt not ſpeak as a Father ro his Son. . 10. Herm. Son, things of this kinde, arc not taught, bur are by God, when he pleaſeth,’ brought to remembrance. \ T1. Tat. Thou ſpeakeſt of things ſtrained, or far ferchr, and impoſhble, Father, and therefore I, will dire&ly contradid them. — * . 12. Perm. Wile thou prove a ſtranger Son, ro. thy F.chers kinde 2 13. Do not envy mc, Father, or pardon me, I am thy Natural Son \ diſcourſe

2 Hernies T} riſmegiſtus. $3 “0 diſcourſe urito me the maner of Re generation. “44 14 Perm. What ſhall I lay, O my Son 2 TI’have nothing to ſay mote thenthis, That I ſee in my felt anunfained fight or ſpe&acle, made by the mercy of God ; and I am gone. out of my ſelf, into an immortal body, and am not ‘now what I was before, but was begotten in Minde. I 55 This thing 15 not taught, nor | 15 it to be ſeen in this formed Element ; | for which the’firſt compounded’form was negle&ed by me; andrhaet Lam now ſeparated from it ; for I have both the rouch, and the meaſure of - it, yet am I now cſtranged from ws | $f 16. Thou ſceſt, O Son, with thine eyes ; burthough thoulook never ſo 7 , Redfaſtly upon me, with the Body, and bodily ſighr , rhou-canſt nor ſee, nor underftand what Iam now. | | ’ , 17. Tat, Thou haft driven me, | O Farher, into no ‘{mall fury and | G 2 diſtration

84. The ſeventh Book of | diſtration of minde,for I do not now ſee my (elf. 18, Yerm. I would,. O Son, that thou alſo wert gone our of thy ſelf, like rhem that dream in their ſleep. 7 19..Taot, Then tell me this, who isthe Auchor and Maker of Regenerarion ? 20. Yerm. The Childe of God, one Man by the Will of God. | 21. Tat. Now, O Father, thou haſt put me to filence for ever, and all my former thoughts have quite left, and forſaken me, for 1 fee the greatneſs,’ and ſhape of all things here below, and nothing but talſhyod in them all. 22. And fichence this morral Form ’ 1s datly changed, and turned by time intoincreaſe, and diminution, as betng falſhood : Whar therefore is true, O {i megiſtn: 2 22. @Trifſm. Thar, O Son, which Is not. truubled, nor bounded not coloured, «not figured, not changed %“‘Þ chat

that which is naked, bright, compre| henfible onely of it lf, unalterable, unbodlly. 24: Tat, Now Iam mad, indeed Father ; for when I thought me.ro have been made a wiſe man rhee, with theſe thoughts thou ha : A dulled all my ſents. | 25. Yerm. Yeris it ſo, as I ſay y, O Son , , Ye that loketh onely upon tha which is carried upward as Fire, that which is carried downward as Eatth that which is moyſt as Warer, an that which bloweth, or is ſubjc@ ro blaſt as Air ; how can he ſenſibly un» derſtand, chat which is neither hard, nor moyſt, nor tangible, nox perſpicuous , ſeeing it is onely underſtood in power, and operation. : But I beſeech and pray to the Pinde, which alone can underſtand the Generation, which is in God. 26. Tat. Then am T, © Father, utterly unable ro do ir. 27. Yerm. Godforbid Son, rather G 3 draw of Hermes Trifmepiſtus: “P10

86 Thefeventh Book of draw or pull him unto rhee ( oz ffuvy fo kmow hem) and he will come, be buf willing, and if ſha!l be dane : quier {or make idle) the Senſes of the Bouy, purging thy ſelf from unreaſonable ruitiſh tormenmrs of marrer. _ 28. Tat. Have I any (revengers or\ tormentors in tny ſelf, Father ? 29. YHerm. Yea, and thofe, not a few, but many, and fearful ones. 390.” Tat, do not know them, Father. y 31. Yerm. One Torment, Son is Ignozance, a ſecond, Sorow athird, Anfemperance, a fourth, Concupiſcence, a fifth, Jiniuffice, a ſixth, Covetonfneſs, a ſeventh, Deceit , an eighth, Envy, a ninth, Frande o2 Guile, a tenth , Wazath,an elevench,Rathneſs, a rwelfch, Palicionſneſs, | 32. They are’in number twelve, and under theſe many moe ; ſome whichthrough the priſon of the body, do force the inwardly placed Man to ſuffer ſenſibly. 33. And

Hermes TE reuggyond $7 33. And they do not ſuddenly, gr cally depart from him thathath ohrained mercy of God ; afd. hhercin confiſts, both the maner, and the reaſon of Regeneration. NIN 34- Forther: ſt, O Son, hold thy eace, and praiſe God in filetice,, ad y that means, the mercy.‘of: ‘God will not ceaſe, or be A unto us. 35. Therefore rejoyce; my Hoc. from henceforward, being purged. by the powers of God, tothe Knowleds of the Truth, -=. 36. For the revelation ab:Godi is come to us, and when that came, all Ignorance was caſt our. 37. The knowledg of 36 inqoms unto us, and when thar’comes;./Saqrrow ſhall flie away to ARE: arc capable of it. 38. I call unto Joy, the power of Temperance, a power whoſc: Vertuc is moſt ſweet ::‘Ler-us take” hex unto our ſelves, O Son, molt willingly; for G 4 how

88 The ſeventh Book of ” how at her coming hath ſhe pur away Intemperance * 39. Now I call the fourth, Continence,’ the power which is over Concupiſcence. This, O Son, is the ſtable ’ and firm foundarion of Juſtice. 40. For ſec how without labor, ſhe hath chaſed away Injuſtice ; and we arc juſtified, O Son, when Injuſtice is away. | 4r. The fixth Vertve which comes into us, I. call Communion, which is againſt Coverouſneſs. 42. And when that (Covetouſneſs) 1s gone, I call Truth; and when ſhe cometh, Error and Deceit vaniſhcth. | ’ 43- See, O Son, how the Good is fulfilled by the acceſs of ‘Truth; for by this means, Envy is gone from us ; for Truth is accompanied with rhe COoey rogerther alſo with Lite and lf. - And there came no more any torment. of Darkneſs, but being overcome,

-come,they all fled away ſuddenly,and rumultuarily. 45. Thouhaſtunderſtood, O Son, the maner of Regeneration ; for upon the coming of rhelſe Ten, the IntelIeRual Generation ‘is perfe&ed , and then ic driveth away the Twelve; and we have ſcen it in the Generation ir ſelf. 46. Whoſoever therefore hath of Mercy obtained this Generation, which is according to God, he leavin all bodily ſenſe, knowech himſelf ro con(iſt of divine things,and rejoyceth, being made by God ſtable agd 1mmutable. | : 47- af. O Father, I conceive and underſtand, not by the fight of mine eyes, bur by the IntelleQual Operatton, which is by the Powers. I amin “Heaven, in the Earth, in the Warer, inthe Air; Iam inliving Creatures, in Plants, in the Womb, . cyery where. © ig 48. Yet tell me furrhex:; ’ this one ” Hermes Trijmatifia, 8g

F “vo | Thi Crore Book of onething , . How are thetorments of Darkneſs , being in number Twelve, driven away and expelled by the Ten powers 2 What is the maner of it, Triſnegiſtus ? 49. YH*rm. This Tabernacle , O Son, conſiſts of the Zodiacal Circle ; and this confiſting of twelve numbers, the Jdea of one; bur all formed Narure admit of divers Conjugations to the deceiving of Man. _- | 50. And though they be different in themſelves , yer are they uniccd in practice ( as for example, Raſhneſs is inſeparable from Anger) aid they are alſo indeterminate: Therefore with good Reaſon, do they make their deparcure, being driven away by the Ten powers ; that is. to ſay, By the dead. : 51- For the number of Ten, O Son, is the Begetter of Souls. And there Life and Light are united, where the number of Unity is born of the SPI, Ei 52. There 

_ Hermes T riſmegiſtus. 91 “52. Therefore according to Rea| ſon, Unity hath the number of Ten, and the number of Ten hath Unity. ‘53. Taf. O Father, I now fee-. the Univerſe, and my ſelf in the Minde. | 54- Yerm. This is Regenerafion, O Son, that we ſhould not any longer fix our imagination upon this Body, ſubjeR ro the rhree Frmenfihs, According to this Speech which we have now commented, That we may not arall calumniare the Univerſe. 55. Laf. Tell me, O Father, This Body thar confiſts of Powers, ſhall ic ever admit of any Diflolution * | 56. Yerm. Good words Son, and ſpeak nor things impoſſible , for fo x Si ſhale fin, and the eye of thy y Minde grow wicked. | | 57. The ſenſible Body of Nature is far from the Eſſential Generation for that is ſubje& to Diſſolution, but | thisnor;; and that is mortal, but this immorcal. Doft thou not know _ a3 | cnou :

thou art born a God, and the Son of the One, as Iam? 13229 58. Tat, How fain would 1,. 0 Father , hear that- praiſe given by a Hymn,which thou ſaidſt,thou heard(t from the. Powers, when I way in the Nconary. | 59. . Yerm, As Pimander ſaid by. way of Oracle to the £onary: Thou doſt well, O Son, todefire the Solution of the Tabernacle, for thou arr purified. 60. Pimander, the Minde of abſolate Power and Authority , hath delivered no more unto me, then thoſe char are written; knowing that of my ſelf, I can underſtand all things, and hear, and fee what I will.. . And he commanded me to do thoſe things that are good ; and therefore all the * Powers that are in me ſing. 61. Tat. I would hear thee,O Father, and underſtand theſe things. 62. Yerm. Be quiet, O Son, and - now hearken to that harmonious ble{| ſing 92 The ſeventh Book of |

»* $$ So Sy _---_--- © Hermes Triſmegiſtus. 0 fing and thankſgiving , the hymn of egeneration which I did not deter-. mine to have ſpoken of ſo plainly, bur ro = ſelf in che end of all. » Wherefore this is not taught, bur a; in ſilence, 64. So then, O Son, do thou, ſtanding in the open Air, worſhip , looking to the North Wind, abour the going down of the Sun; and to the Sourh, when the Sunariſeth - And now keep ſilence Son, The Secret Song. The Holy Speech. 65. ] i all the Nature of the world entertain the hearing of this Hymn. - 66. Beopened, O Earth, and ler all the Treaſure of the Rain be opencd, 67. You Trees tremble nor, for 1 will.

98 Theſevenith Book of | will ſing, and-praiſe the Lord of the _ Creation, and the Alt, and rhe Dne. ’ 68. Be opened you Heavens, ye * Winds ſtand ſti}], “and ler che mmoreal Circle of God, receive theſe | words. 69. For will fing, and praiſe him that creared all chinps. that fixed theEarch; and hung up-che Heavens, and commanded the fweer Watertocome our of the Dcean, into all the World Anhabired , and-not inhabited, to the uſe, and nouriſhment of all things, or mer. -0. That commanded the fire to ſhine for every ation, both to Gods, _ and Men. 71. Let us altogerher give him blefſing, which rideth upon the Hcavens, the Creator of all Nature: 72. This is he thatis the Eye of the Minde, and Will accept the praiſe of my Powers. | 73- O all’ye Powers that are m þ me, praiſe the Dne, and the All. 74. Sing 47”

7 oj --- Than pf 2. hg * ov = - Sy ag --- --- OC oy OC --- Hermes Triſmegiſtu 9% © 74. Sing together with my Will, all you Powers that are in me, 4; O Holy Knowledg,. being enligheened by the I magnific the in-. relligible Lighr, and Tcjoyce in the Joy of the Minde. 76. All my Powers ſing praiſe with me, and thou my Continence, fing praiſe my Righteouſneſs by me z praiſe that which is righteous. 77. 0 Communion which is in me, praiſe the All. | 78. By me the Truth fi ings praiſe ro the Truth, rhe Nia praiſeth rhe Good, 79. OlLife, O Light from us, unto you, comes this praiſe aad thankſgiving. | 80. I give thanks unto thee, O Father, the operation or a& of my Powers. $1. I give thanks unto thee s &God, the Power of ay crations,”=. , 82. By me thy W fas ſings praiſe * % unto hide” receive by me this le able

83. The powers chat are in me, cry theſe things, they praiſe the all, they fulfil chy Will; thy Will and ? Councel is from thee unto thee. 84. O all, receive a reaſonable Sac”ificg from all things. 85.1O Life, ſave all thar isinuss O Light en’ighien, O Ged the Spirir z for the Minde vviderh{or feederh” the Ward”: O Spirit bearing WorkMin. 86. Thonart God. thy an cryeth theſe things unto thee through , by the F.ce, by the +ir, by the Earth, by the Watcr , by the Spirit ,” by.thy Creatures, 87. Fiom eternity I h2ve found (means to) bleſs and praiſe the? , and I have what I ſeck, for I reſt incby Wil. : | | 88, Tx. O Father, I ſee rhov hit ſung this Song of praiſe and bleſſing, wich thy whole Will, and:cheretore have I put and placed it in my Wo1lJ. - 89. Ycrms 96 The ſeventh Book of able (or verbal) Sacrifice in words.

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_ ”---_--- cunt ed ad .03 The ſeyenth Book,eve. | .all chings ; but propound Yo, .O Son, by word. © zhoy. baft adviſed. .and- inſtructed thus to give praiſe and thanks,… 97 Mat. -1- thank : thee? ge 9$… Perm: 1 am glad, 22: t0 ſee the.Truch bring forth the Eruirs of Good things, and ſ{uch ammortal Branches, - ’ |. -98; And kg of me: Above al other Venues entertain Silence, ci Pore unto.naman,, O.,Son,.the Ira Sig leaſt, we be Or. both way y _ Ty know thy ſelf; ------ THAT. “a0” 4% \ + Yi&s 326 “The on of- the ſeventh Book. ts # » © # , * P , ’ FT & 4 , R .) ; \ ui 4 WW ©-©+ _--- n . L : F p , 4 * 1

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vp The eighth Book of and if youcannot all do ſo, yet do as ts Vs 55,4 ns Os > - ; “the mikiceof Ignorance ©. Yor ay! | J Rh all WE Fi. not ſuf of Salva +.0Sulter ras) your ſelves todd carried with the grear ſtream , bur ſtem |} the tide, you that Can lay hold of the | Haven na: and make ybar full ering it to arrive at oe Havens cou PE: + Seck one _ ”_ lead you by gs o thee ruth ano e-the = Light i Tok We: JI arkneſs, where there is one drunken, or, bblrars foher eng Rint Mvny: 1c: Gi wn: EZ } io he. cannqt bc i: ears, harieen with eyes,nofT in-words q: but onely, in inde, and hean MG 7 7. Byr firſt chou-mulſ teara 3,01 / and um RS. ACE Fo. TE OL IIEE

“Hermes Trijmegi/tud.! r01 and. break throngh: rhogamntnt the weareſt ;i the webiof /Ignbratiee’| his foundation ofall Miſchiefs|rtzrlbondt of Corruption ; the dark Coverture the living Death ; the ſcnſible Carcaſs, the Sepulchre, carried abour with us ; the domeſtical Thief, whych in whar* he Toves us, hates LO us $, Such is the hurtful Apparel, wherewith thou artcloarhed, which draws and pulls thee downward by its own ſelf, leſt looking up, and ſeeing the beauty of Truth, and the Good that -is repoſed therein,-thon ſhouldſt hate the wickedneſs of this garment, and underſtand the traps and ambuſhes which it hath laid for thee. 9. Therefore doth it labor to make x27 thoſe things that ſeem, and are by the Senſes, judged and determined; and the things char are rxuly, ir hides, and envellopeth in much matter, filling what it preſents nnto thee, with | H3 hack

_ 102The eighth Book, &c. hateful pleaſure , thar thou canſt neither hear what thou ſhouldſt hear; nor ſce what _ ſhouldſt ſee. * Theend of the eighth Book.

- Ns . * x * The N -“th Book | OB—S +51 Hermes Triſmegiſi WW. \ ry --- wes 8 A Puirverſal Sermon to All deg: =ICm. All tht is ant 4 O Aſclepius, is it nor moved ‘in fome thing, and by ſome thing * 2. Aſclep. Yes in” deed. 1 3. Yerm, Muſt not thar, in which a 3, is moved ,’ of neceffiry © be greater then the. TW “That * “18 moved 7 f : * Hel Ot neccflir : F 4 H, 4 5 5-And

194- The ninth Book of 5. And that which moveth, is ir not itronger then that which is moved 2 - 6. Aſclep. Tris ſtronger: ; 7. Herm. That in which a thing is moved, muſt ir not necds have a Nature, contrary tothar of the thing that is moved 2 +; $. Afclep, Ir muſt needs, 9: Herm. Is nor- this grear World 2 Body, then which there is no greater * - x6. Afclep. Yes, confeſſcdly * 11. Yerm. And is it not ſolid, as filled with _ great Bodies, and i indeed, with all the Bodicy that are 2 12. Aſclep, TAN | 13. Þerm, And: is not the World a Body, and aBody that is moved £ | 14. Afclep. It is, 75-. Yerm,..Then whar a kinde of place muſt ir be,, wherein it is maved, and of whar, Nature 2 Mult it. not be much bigger, that ir may receive the cantnney of Moton & and leſt’thax A which

G iO. EL EL ERR: | \, , Hermes Triſmegiſtw. 105 { which, is moyed, ſhould for want of room, be ſtayed, and hindered in the Motion ? | 16. Afclep, It muſt needs be an immenle thing, Triſmegiſtus; bur of whar Nature 2 | | 17. Herm, Of a contrary Nature, Q Aſclepius 2, = is.not the Nature of things unboduly,; contrary to a Body ? 53. Aſclep, Confeſledly, p 19. Yerm.. Therefore the place is unbodily ; bur that which is 3 $50 is cicher ſome Divine thing, ox God himſelf. And by ſome thing Divine, Ido not mean that which was made or begotten, 20. If, therefore ir be Divine, it is an Eſſence or Subſtance, bur if ic be God, ir is aboye Eſſence, bur he is otherwiſe intelligible… 2. For the firſt, God is intelligible, r to himſelf, but to us; . forthar which is intclligible, is ſubje& ro thar which underſtandeth by Senſe. -: 3+ Therefore God is not inevet

£ ESC © 7 « A wy 106 TheninthBookof. g bleto hitnſelf, for not. being any othetdnc ching from that which is underſtood, fm he. cannot be underſtood by him-Jja fo ſelf. | 23. But he is another thing from i us; and therefore is he underſtood by || c us. | 24. If therefore Place be inrelliSible, it is not Place bur God ; bur if God be intelltgible, he is intelligible not as Place, bur as a capable Operation. EI 25. Now every thing that is moved, is moved, not in or by that which is moved , bur in that which ſtanderh or reſtetrh , and that which moveth ſtandcth or reſterh ; for it is impoſſible it ſhould be moved withir. | 26. Acſclep. How then, O Triſmegiftus, are thoſe thihgs that are here moved with rhe rhings thar. are moyed ? for thou faycft, that the- | Spheres that wander -are moved by the Sphere that wanders not, ’ * 27. Yerm- Thar, O Aſctepins, is nor |

het Hermes Triſmegiſtur. 10 otamoving together, but a-counter- * d, {mocion; for they are not movedafter m- alike maner, -but contrary one tothe m Yy Fif e: Ki»: oa 0 N20 PEI BUSAN w fother : And contrariety hath a ftanding reſiſtance of motion, for the &Mmiriz or reſiſtance, is a ſtaying of motion. _ 28. Therefore the wandring Spheres being moved contrarily ro that Sphere which wandereth nor ſhall have one from another contrariety ſtanding of it ſelf. 29. Forthis Bear which thou ſeeſt neither riſe nor go down, bur turning always about the ſame ; doſt thou think it moverth or ſtanderh ſtil! ? 30. Afclep. I think ir moves, Triſs megiſtus. 31. What motion, O Aſctepius ? 32. Aſclep- A motion thar ‘is-always Carried about the ſame: 33- Bur the Circulation which is about the ſame, and the-morion abour the ſame, are both-hiddecib Starion’; for that which isabour the ſame, for1, 47.05 hich je above the _ $44 |

108 The ninth Book of 7 KAped to that which is about the - =. | ; , 34+ And ſo the contrary motion ſtands faſt always, being always cas bliſhed by the contrariety. - | ‘35- But 1 will give thee concerning this matter, an earthly example that may be {cen with eyes. | 36. Lk upon any of theſe living Creatures upon Earth,” as Man forex. ample, and ſec him ſwiming z for as the Warer 15 carried one way, the relucarion or reſiſtance of -his feet and hands is made a ſtation. to, the man, that he ſhould not be carried with the Water, nor fink nnderneath ir. 37. Aſclep. Thou haſt laid down a very clecrexample, Eriſuregiſtuz. 38. Yerxm, Therefore every motion is in ſtation, and is mo od of ta. tion. % ;; : 39.The motion then of che World, and of every. material living. thing, ’, happeneth- not.co be done by- choſe things that are, without the Woes Z ug #

Hermes Triſmegiſhus. 109 ..1 but by thaſe, chings withinit, a Soul, ’| or Spirit 4. or. ſome! other unbadily onl *hing, toithoſe things which are withOUT It, -;-, 71 CLOMLYY STALE | 4o. For an inanimated Body doth not now.,.. much leſs: a Body if it be wholly nanimates,. 1/4 — 41; Afclep. What meancth thou by this, O Trilmegiſtns? Wood and Stones, and all other inanimare things, - arg they not moving Bodies © - *{ . —. . — 434\ Yarm., By no means, Q Afcles pius, fox that within-the Body ; which moves the inanimatething, 1s not the Body.z that moves.btth as well the Bodycpf that which beareth;; as the Body of that whighis.born ; far one dead ox.inanimate ching, cannor.tnove anotheri; that which moveth, muſt needs be-alive if it. move. |; |; - , 43-.;Thou ſeeſt thereforehowrhe Soul is {urcharged, when it carrich two Bodis. ’ - «;1:’; IN 44. And now. it 1s manifeſt ,-that the things that axe, moyed- are. moved - in

vas The ftinth Bookof | in ſomething ,” -and by ſomething. 45- Uſtlep, ‘The things “that are moved, O Trifnegiffus, muſt needs be moved in that which is void or empty, bacuom, zw. x Rd et NE -46. Be adviſed, O Afcleping, for of all che chings that are,there is nothing empty, onely*thiat which is not, 1s empty and a ſtranger to exiſtence or being. 27 at h T2733 47. Bur that which is, could not be if ic were not-full of exiſtence z for thar whictis’ihbeing or exiſtence, can-never be made empry. ’ 48.” Alep. Arethere not therefore ſome” things that are-emprty, O Tri megiltus,‘as an-otpty Barrel, anempry Hogſhead, an empty Well;‘anempry Wine-Preſs, and many ſuch like * 49. Yerm,“O’the’groſineſs of thy Erfor,‘O Afclepins, ‘thoſe things thar are moſt full and: repleniſhed , doſt thou account them voyd and empty * ‘50;, Affrlep. What maybe thy meaning Triſmegillus, | REIT 51. Perm.

, ‘Herm, I5’not the Air a Body * = Aſclep. Ir is. a Body. $3-: erm. Why then this Body, doth it not paſs thraugh all: thi that arezand paſling through them, fl them ?7 and that;:Body doth it not conſilt of the mixture of-the four 2 therefore allthoſe things whichthou calleſt empry, are full of Ayr. 544; Therefore thoſe chigs: that thou calleſt empty, thou oughteſt to call: them. hollow ,;;nox empty ; far they. exiſt and. are full of. Byr. and Spirit. 55. Aſclep-; This “ontand is bennad all contradiQion, ,Q;Triſmegiſtus, bur whart-ſha}l we call che Place, in which the whole Univerſe is moved £ 56,-: Herm. Cali it ncorporeal, O ficlepins. _ 57. Aſclep. What is that incorporeal orunbodily 58. Yerm: The Minde and Reaſon; the whole, wholly comprehending ir __ free from all Body, undecciveable, “IOGIn Wm

| TIZ .’The ninth Book of able,invifible, impaſſible from a Body ir ſelf, ſtanding faſt in ir ſelf, capable of all chings, and that ſavor 6f rhe things thatare, ”-/ 59. Whereof the Gwd, the ‘Truth, the Ytchetypal Light; rhe Archetype of the Soul, are as ir were Beams. - —= 69! Aflep. Why then , what iS God 6x.” Herm. Thar which i is nofic of theſe things, yer is, and is the cauſe of Being 10, all , and-every one of ‘the things( Chatate 4 for he left nothing =” of Being, .- And all” thinps are made of es thatare, anÞnor of thint’s that are not + for the’things thatiarc’nor, have nor the natire- to- be able’\to be made z and agairi,the things that are, have not the nature never to be, op NOT £O be at all. fa V2 63. Aſclep. What doſt thon: thei lay at lengeh, that God is e - / 64+ Yerm. God is’not a Minde/l but: the Gavke that the Minde is; /not 4 Spirit; _---” a. ee it. et CEE ---__---

N w_ Hermes Triſmegiſlus. ns S bur che Cauſe “thar che Spitix 7b Light z* bur the! Ciuſe! chat Light IS, ne 2449 bou I? 65. Therefore we mill worſhip God’ by theſe two Modes, which are propecr-x0 thintalone, can tono other.” . iv bagh2L; .- 66. For neither. of All the other which, are: called, Gods, ngrefeMen, nor Demons, @h Angcls; canany one bs, Fhgpgh aliens lines » $yod, fave onely 7000: OF ect 6 PR, this He, i is, and, not cle fa all oth 7 Ives: arc f oo cangont: in he 0 © 69. For Sri yon of Pr i 15 as + Ereat as the Exiſtence of all thin 7s; tharfare ‘both he int y and mb6di Y, both’ CEAGbICAGE joible. Tavis « ©06:? This? is _ TOS: «1 oth God. 1 22119991 5 Irs -£ “1942 2 Scetienor tharrhbudonor | at +83

a4. The ninth Book of Mi4@y: time, call ought elſe Good, fat; ſs.gdu-ſhaly de tmpious, ar any elſc God, bur onely che Godd, for Gothou ale again be impious. . 87 Word {tis ofceh [aid by all ine ets [Good ;but ‘aHt imen donot underſtand what i it 15; bur chro 4 Ignorance they “call both the T c and folnemen Gogd; tharcan never eizht be’or be trite £6. 5; Therefore all the oil Gods arc honored with theritle and appelfation of 0d, bur God is. the Bog, not” 1ctordihg to Heaven, bur? Nw _ ‘For thete is one. Nara of &b, even the Good. and ohe kinde | of x chem, both, Kom whence all’are kindes, vr 175. For hethat | is gael 2 is !+he >iver of all therefore, and receives nothing. 5,and rakes nothing 5 | eyes; 4 things , | | F ls : [ | h

- troN,; 15 the Farker;, ‘Þee2 bf) bis making allchings;;;ifor K 4$-£1E; of 2 Father ro make. “args, 34 77. Therefore it hath be en the greareſt and moſk Religious gaze in rh&Qifel Gorkvocin obs and wel-minded, to beget children. 78. As likewiſe, irc is the greateſt misfortune and impiety, forany to be ſeparared from men, withour children; and this man is puniſhed after death by rhe Demons , and the puniſh. ment. is_this , _ To_bave rhe Soul of this childleſs man, adjudged and condemned, to a Body that neither hath the nature of a man, nor of a woman, which is an accurſcd thing under-the Sun. | 79. Therefore, O Aſclepins, never | afgrmacc any man that 1s child+ lets; bur on the contrary , pity his misfortune, knowing what puniſhment abides, and is prepared for him. | 80, Let ſognany, and ſuch maner | | I 2 of

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Kh - The tenth Book of Plain.ro.0 lO, mg. in. this. point 3 for will wanifefin. wer tarteevchg 3- Then ſaid the Minde how hy | caſe ſtands. 4- God and All. +054 5. God, Eternity, the World, _ Generation. 6. God: made Ecerpiry, Erernity the World ; , the World Time, and Time Generation. 7. Of God, as it were the Subſtance,is the God, the Fair, B’efledneſe, Wiſobu- :; ! 3: of Eternity, lgentity, or SelfC nels. 9. Of the World; Order. 10. Of Tice, Change. vr. /Of Generation, Life , and was: {NL But:the. Operation of God , b-Minde and Soul; } :243. Of Etepriicy, Permanence, or Long laſting, and Inimortaltty. oa Of the” adam Reſtituripn , and

and Decay,.or Deſtruction; 117 15:5 15. Of Time, Augrnenetion,znd Dimigution: 1116. AnFof Generation qualities, 17- “Therefore Ecernity is1n God. 18. The Worldm Ecernicy. -. x9. Time inthe World, i .-. 20. And:Generation in Time. _ And Eternity ſtandeth hour 0 22. The WES moved in Eeernity. 7 23s Timo is determined in che | World. | 24 Generation is done A Time: ’ 25. Thercfore. the Spring: 3 and Founcain of all things, is God: * 26. The Sabſtance Etomiury:.. 27. The Matteris the World: -.. 28, The: Power of God is Epernit ” 9. And the Work of ‘Kabrniry, i is the. World not yer made, and yer.ever made by Ecerniry. — 30: -Thereforcſhall nothidg. by at I4 any _ Heimes Triſmagis. rg

120 The tenth Book bf any time: ---_--- for bcemiey. IS incorruptible. 31.-Neither can any thing periſh or be deſtroyed-in_ the; World ,. the World: bcing- contained ; 5: anG embraced by.eternity.. ’-; 22. Bur what is’the Wiſdom: of God.s;Eyen the Gwd,: and. the . Fatr, and Bleſſedneſs, and every Vetrucand Beeony’ 33- Eternity therefore putinro-rhe Marter Immorrality and Everlaſtingnels z: forthe Generacjon.of that -depends upon Eternity, even as Ererairy doth of God. * ©», 34+ ’ Hor’ Generation! and Time, in Heaveo, avd in Ezrth, arc of -adouble Nature; in: Heaventhey are tigchangeable; and incorruptible//but on Earth they are: changeable ,;! and carrupttrigs 5. Add the:Squl of Ecernity , is God; and.the.Soubof the World, Eternity 3 and of the Earth, Heaven. 36; God 51 in che Minde,the Minde | vii in

Heimes Triſmegiſtus. 12 in the Soul, the Soybinthe dom all Irhings b Eceroy. + 37«-All this Univerſal Body, which are all’ Bodies: is full of Cry the Soul full of Minde, rhe Minde full of God. 38. For within: he fills them, amd without he contains them, quickning | the Univerſe. 39. Wiuhourt he quickens hisper| fe&living thing the World, and within all living Creatyres. 40. And aboyein Heaven he abides in Identity or Selfneſs, but below-up/ On _ he changeth Generation.. | Eternity comprehendeth the World, cither by Neceſhty, « or Pro[ vidence, or-Nature. | 48. Andif any man ſhall chink any other thing;, it is : God that aRuaterh, | oroperateththis All… 43- Bur the operation or Act of | God, is Powerinſuperable, ro which | none-may_compare.;any thing, either Humane or Divine. | --- , ca LY Ow 2, 44.There 

122 .TherenchBook-of : - 44-*Thereforo, O Yormeo; think none of theſe things below,” arthe things ubove’, ’ inany wiſo hke’unto a; ‘for if thou doſt, thou ‘erreſt from the Trarhy-.— 1 - | | 45- For nothing can be like theunlike, ahd onely, and One; nor mayeſt thou think, tha he-hath- given of his Power to any other thing. ’ ’ : 46. Por who/afrer him can. make any thine, either of Life, -or Immorrality; of Change, or of Quality 9 and himfelf, what other thing ſhould 47- For God ts noridle;, for then all things would be idle, forall things are full of! God. - A 48. Bur there is-not any where in theWorld, ſuch athing- asIdleneſs , for Tdlenefs is aname tharimplieth a thing voyd or empry, both of a Doer, and a thing dotie. OG “49.” Bur all thiigs muſt neceſſarily be made or done both always, and according to the nature of every place. | p 50. For

Hernnos Trifinegſsi” wg; [$0 For by thac makech ordath, is) inall things, yet not iaſknediar come? prehended, iy any: thingy normaking. or doing one SARS ofok al things. -5k«;;Por being -an.aRive arapera-: ting Power, and ſuthcient of himſelf for the things that are made, andthe tþINgs that are made, arcunderhim. 52; Look uppn;‘through. me, the, World: 1s ſubje&t ‘to thy fight; and underſtand exactly the beany there po 3- A, Body immarcefcible, then the which, there is nothing more ancient , yet always vigorous and. young. 54. See alſo the ſeven Worlds ſer. over us, 2dorned with an everlaſting Order, and filing Eicrnity , ‘with a difference courſe, 55, Forall things are full of Light, buethe Fire is/no where. $6. For the friendſhip, and commixture of contraries and unlike, be+ came a ſhining from the. AR oy Opcration

124 The tenth Book of Operation of God; the Father of all. Good, the Prince of all Order, and the Ruler of the Seven Worlds. 57: Look alſo upon the Moon;‘the forerunner of them all;the Inſtrument of Nature, and which’changeth the Matrer here below, | 331, 58. Bchold the Earth, the middle: of the whole, the firm and’ ſtable Foundation of rhe Fair World, _. the Feeder” and-Nurſe of ‘Eatthly things. | 59. Confider morcover, how great the multitude is of immortal living things, and of mortal onesalſo, and ſce the Moon going abour in the midſt of both, to wit,” of things immortal and mortal, 60./ Bat all things are full of Soul, and all things are properly moved by it; ſoine things about the Heaven, and ſome things abou the Earth, and neither of thoſe on the right hand ro the lefr, northoſe onthelefr hand ro the right 3 nor thoſe things thataro | above,

, many. Hermes Triſmegiſtus. -12 | above, downward; nor thoſe _ thar are below, i upwards.- Foun | 61. And that all theſe things are made, O beloved Yermes, tho needſt not 1eaffi of me,” * 62: For they are Bodies, and have a Soil; and ate moved? -63. And that all theſe ſhouldicome rogethbr into 0n@,// ic is impofible without ſome thiig, hy garher chem rogiether. - 64. Therefots hate muſt th forme Luc ones; and/he aldogethet’Ons: | “65! Bor ſevindchiabr the niotions’arc diyers, and many, arid the’Bodleg&nor alike), nd yer Ons ordered Twiftheſs ‘am6nſs them/a}l : Iris impoſſible thete ſhoul be two or moc Makers? ''': - 66. FUs one order is nor Kept by NE Buei in theweaker, therewould be jealbuſic of the ſrongerjand rhence alſo Contentions. *’ . 68: And if chere were one Maker of mutable and mortal living ha + TS\ he

he would dſ re Pa t0- make immor{ral ones, as hethatwere che Makerg ; 4mmaxtal anes,, + on _--- eat mortal. , 69. Moteover Is, if chere were | 4wo ; .she Manes, þcing one ,, who| * ſhould be chiefs ar have the 6:ſpoſing .of then 20.-Qri AURA which of them the greater Pafr’s- ; 71- Burt thinks thus that every lj-viag Bouy - hav; ks hen es, of Maucerned Soulz,; gad of that which is immoxtaland-thas which.is mortal, and 4 blcs el”? INE 213%!) 73-:/For all living Bodies have 2 -Soiyl ; 4nd choſe-rhaags; chay are nor living are-onely maiter by it felt; ’ 78+ Ang the;Spyl likewiſtofir, ſelf drawing neer her Maker, i is the.cauſc ‘of Jife; and Beiogy ’ and. Beiggthe -cault; of Life, ANaleeta Inner. the cauſe of immortal thy x How: thenarb Wong wights, other fromitimergl *%:. 0.2 9 75- Or

| Hetmes Triſmegiftwr. 127 1 75» P how canner he make living af might chats chat cauſcch, unmorral things, aka | 4 ere ho .Gots t& Wake Life, and. Soul, rtalir e 56. 5. Thar ps is ſome Body char .doth-theſe chings, ir is apparent, and ghar he is alſo one, jt 15: moſt manifeſt, 77: : Fortherc is goc Soul,ous Life, and one Matter. _… 78.. Who is this r who can ir be, other then the Dne, God? k 79:,. For whom. ele can .ir bencfie, to make living things, fave one, God alone < 80. There.is Lt al one. God. 8 © $1.;. For it, is a, zidiculousfbing tb confeſs. the Woxld to be one, , one Sun,‘.one; Moon, .one; Divinity ; - “and yet £9 have I know not how many gods: 82. He “KY Ns being One, doth all chipgs in many phipgs… -; . 83; And _whar,gxcatztbiog is, 18 A mortality,and Change, nies ae colt {0 many things, .,;.

128 -The tenth Book’ef ’| - $4. For thoji both (ceſt, fpeakeſt] j and heareſt;” ſmelleſt ,- raſteſt’ and 1 roucheſt, walkeſt, underſtandeſt, and * breatheſt. | 85. And itis not one that ſterh,and : anorher ‘thar heareth , and’ another] that ſpeaketh, and anocherthar rbuch!] 1 eh ,. and another that ſmeMeth, and] 1 another that walketh , and another | that underitandeth;’ and atiothier tharf | brearherh; zbut Oric that doth/ alitheſc] ‘thimgs. | 6… Yet ncither can cheſe things po! ibly be without God. © $7. For as’thou, if chod ſhouldſt ceaſe from doing theſethings ,’ weir not a living wighr; ſoif God ſhould ceaſe from thoſe,he were not (which LE gt lawful ,co ſay ) any longer $8. For if: it-’ be already- demonted+, * that’nothing tan” be idle or bi ey mich morc may be affirntO # pet 15h | r* For if there be any thing which c

“5 mu bus oq Heres THmegifiu ur. 129 J he oth” at do, rheni is he oi ir were | HY ro ſay (0) imperfed.” “Whereas” ſceing he is ng r idle [hp perſea z Certainly: he. « Fo. all ings a5 Now give thy ſelf untZ Ts Hermes, for 4 little While: rhou ſhalt the more eaſily. underſtand, thic. it is the neceſſary wotk of God, chat thin $ ſhould be wnade. or dons, that are done , or were ongc done ox 1 t ſhall be done. we: And this, ‘0 “belt Bapied, b i c 93 And this isthe Fair.© 94: 70 this is the God. Ne IN -9L5- this is Gods, E * 69., And if thou wilt MY ghd this by wotk alſo. mark what happenst6’thy ſelf, when thou wilt gene-! TAtC.-.” 97+. . And yer this | is. ot. like anito. him, for he is not ſenſible of plea-. ſure, for neicher hath he ahy other” Fcllow-workman. K 98. Bur

120 The tenth-Book. of 98.. But being himſelf the onely Workman, he’s always! in the Work, himſelf being that. which he dork Or makerh. <0 “99; For all things, if they. Wycks araned from. him, muſt nse ds fatt dic, Shes being, go oo life 1n gay agath, “if vl things ; be N fs “is hrs; bark Yhic hag ln 63, V5 Eirth;. anc Thar! there be ObIE A ” aft thing s Te cHRE IS, made 213 Fbat,is G I. cn things! av inade, or one Go 101. Life is the union of ddl and the Soul. © © Is Bi death is notthe dgſtipdiq *vy $ that wer eprnhered a uta Tigalzing 6 fie Uni398 [The img 16 three gf oY Eternity, of Eternity: the &. af the World Nt ; $UD,, of the Sun Man. £ 104. But

ly | 394s But - the; yeople’ ſay ,: That ?| <hanging-is Death, becauſe the Body | is difiglved ,, .and the Life goeth into _/ | that which appearctb-nor. | ,- - b .. 195; ‘By this.diſcourſe, my deareſt - Hermes, I aftirm.as chou heareſt, Thar the World. ischanged, becauſe every day part thereof becomes inviſible; < | -bugghar iris never difſolved,. .-: , 7 106. And theſe are the, Paſhonsgf * | the World; Revolutions, and Occul* | ratians, and: Revplution is-a turning, ”| but Occultation & Renoyatipn.. /; | | :, 107. And the: World: being all formed, hath not_the forms lying la ir, bat- inſet changeth in it E y \‘s 0. S 108: Seeing then the World is-all formed, what muſt he be rhag,made it * for without form, he cannorthe. 109; Andif he be all formed, he will be kept like che World z but-if he have bur one form, he ſhall be in this regard lefs chenthe World. 110. What do wethen ſay that he ‘K 2 1s 7

132 - The tenth Book of | is ! we will not/raiſe any doubts by our ſpeeth ; for nothing thatis’dbubt’ful concerning God;iFyet known. Ix. He hath” therefore one Jen which ‘is’proper ro him”, which becavſe.it is unbodily, is riot ſubje&‘ro the fizhr; and yet ſhews all forms ‘by abe Bodies. |. 112, And donet wonder, if there bean incorruptible-Jdea;- * -©: 113. For they arelike the Matgents of that *Speech ‘whieh is in writing ; for they ſeem ro be high and ſivelling, but? they arc by” nature ſmooth and _ x14. But underiand well ths that I fav, more boldly,for it is more ttue’: AsSa man cajinor live withour life; ſo neirher can. ‘God live, not | doing good. 115. For this is; 2sit were, the Life and Motion. ‘of © God, to move’ all things, and quicken them. 116. Burſome of the things I have ſaid, muſt have” a particular explication :

Hermes Triſmegiftus. 133; _ Underſtand) then what TI ſay. 117.: All things are in God, thor as / tying ina place; for Place’is both a Body;:and- unmoveable;, and’thoſe things that arc there placed, have no mouon.” . 118. For they: lc otherwiſe in Pry which is unbodily, then in the: fan-. ralie, or to ay rance.” © , 119. Confiderhimn that contains all things, and underſtand,*tharnothing is more:capacious, then thar Which is incorporeal, nothing more ſwifr, nothing ‘more powerful z but it-is ‘moſt capacious , moſt {wif , and” moſt Rirong. - 120. And judg of ghis by thy ſelf, command thy Soul to go into acia, and ſooner then thou canſt bid t it, itwill be there. 127. Bid it likewiſe paſs overthe Deean, and ſuddenly it will be.there : Not as paſling from place to plac,but ſuddenly i it will be there. “322. Command 1 ir-to flte:into Hea£46159 K 3 ven,

24 The-renthBook-oE\ ven, ind it will need:no Wings, : nei-: ther ſhall any thing hinder it 5 nor the fire of the Sun; not the Aether, not che turning of the/ Spheres; .nor’rhu bodies of any of the other Stars; bur cutting through all, it will flewp rf che laſt, and furtheſt Body. “123. “And if thou wilt even break the whole, and ſee thoſe things that are without the World (if th there be any thing without) thou mayeſt.- _ | I24. Behold how: great power; how great fwifcneſs thou baft:! Cant _ do-all theſe things, ew cannot 125. Aker this maner | thanks contemplate God to tiave alt the whole World ro! himſelf, as: 16-Were all choughts, orintel IeQtons.: ©) | 126. If therefore thou wilr-niot! equal rhy felf ra God, thou: Canſt Nor underſtand God. .. ’ 127. Fot the ke 1 5 ineligible by the like. | 128. Increafe! -tliy ſelf oxito.2n im| meaſurable

< 7 « i, > 5 Hn, Hethes ae meaſurable retieſs, fro | jj ‘every Body, Kip recs Time become ith oy Hahd (G90 it ng thob Ba t lf, that fioiking is offible, bil v.Coubrett thy ſelf “hol 21. and that thoy cabſt,tfiderſtand : x in , every A, | every” ehefs Fo maner and cutoru’” of. 7 Rig thing; © - 129. Become bis prongs lower, then all dt Zi £6 fend in thy ſelf, the qualities bf all Creatures, of 4 s bite, . the” | the Dry, a and Moyſt ; and c jo: likewi if that thou catiſt. at ohte be every where in the Sea, inthe Baith, ’: 139. Thou ſhatr We once uhdetfian thy “rag, not” yet , begotten in” the “Womb, young, 01a, 10 be Lek, d, the “things after Ry and all chefe log ther as alſo, times, places; dee qualities, oh rn or elſe tobcanſt .not yet un EEE YL) ISL. | Bat if thou > uþ thy Soul in

-in the Pody, po abuſe; its uy ry q underſtan nothin I cafido nothing, I am afraid of -rhe -Sta , I cannar climb, vp into Heavefi,, I know not wholT am, -I cannot tell what. I ſhall be; what haſt thou to do with God e for thau canſt undetftand rione of thoſe Fair and Gagd things , be a lover of the Bod and Evil. - 132: Foritis he greateſt evil, nor to know God. 133. Bur to be ible to know, and ro will, ‘and-to hope, is the ſtraighr way, and Divine way, properto the Good, and it will every where meet thee’,” and every where be ſeen of thee ,, plain and eafie, whenthoudoſt not expe orlook for it * It will-meer thee, waking, ſleeping, failing, traveling by night, by day, wtien thou “ſpeakeſt , and: when thou keepeſt Hilence. ’ 134. For or is » nothing which’s not the Im 135, A ofa = fayeſ, God is | invifible, |

Hermes Triſmegiſtus. ng inviſible, but be adviſed , for who is moremanifeſt, then He: — >»; 10, I 36: \For therefore hath -he made all chi s ,\ that thou by all things mayeſt tee him. 137. This is the Good of God, this is his Vertue, to appear, and to be ſeenin all things, 138. There is nothing inviſible, no wo of thoſe things that arc Incorporea 139: The Minde is ſeen in Uinderſtanding, and God is ſeen in doing or maki | 140. Let theſe things thus far forth, be = manifeſt unto thee, O Trifmegiltus., | 141. Underſtand in o like wow Ml other things by ſelf, le not tbe hs The end of the -_ Book. | &

| “Di | Hiern Book | Et FRO San Triſm epi q the Comment Minde to Tat. fy C C { x EQ He Minde, O Tat, is of the S very Eſlence of God, if 2. What kinde of EL TP thar i is > healtone knows himſelf exaaly. “The Minde therefore is not cur off} or divided from the ep” / 2 O 3

” Hermes Trifmegſuh1’ rp “A | |Sod, tbut: ubired. A$‘elite- ighrhonte Sun.” dd VF ak barivy + -Anidthis ‘Mande i inen; S5Tbd; 9 antchcreſdes drerdome: men Divane, 2nd there Humaniryismeex Divirhry: ! ! 5.” Fore good: Demon called rhe Godbimniorial men; and glen mocral Gods. oC 34; bodamgia - 6., Butinche bruir.Beaſts, py” unreaſonable;living whgher) $ the Mideis rome !Narurc. 13C “Lit ‘! $0 þ 1119” 2 7 . For where there’is a Soul;:;ohere is ws. o Minde’z as where there | is Lives there’ts alſo a Soul. n. 2Þ x ’$. In living Creatures chinefoc ; that are withour Reaſon, rhe Soul 18 Life, voyd of rhe Es anans:; of che Minde.”. “96 For whe Minde’i is the Benefacidt of rhe’ Souls of men; ‘and worketleto the proper Good. 20: “And in unreaſonable thin co-ogerarerh withche Nacurte of ‘cvery one of them, bucin mmcn jwrockecd vgaiaſt their Nannes2 13120 T 1 I1. For

r4:0 The eleventh Book of | + 17; For the-Soul being in the Body,ſpro is ſtraight way made Evil by Sorrow Ph! and Grief,and Plcaſure’or Delight. 1. | 1 12. For Grief -and:Plcaſure:: flow} do like Juices fromthe compound Body] fo! whercinto, ; when the Soul’ icnrererh,} thi or deſcendeth.,. ſhe is moyſtened and} liv tinted with them, _ = 8:3, BY - 13: As many: Souls therefore ,- as | w the: Minde governeetv or over-ruleth, || tt rothem it ſhews’irs own Light, -refiſt- | a1 mg thcir-prepoſſefſions ‘or preſumpri- | p Cel el 37 i; 3135; : Lb 14. As a good . Phyſician: grieverh } 9 the Body, ‘prepoſicfied of adiſcaſe, | \ by burning or launcing ‘it for healths } : RS conn yo; 203 19.5407 15. After the ſame maner alſo, the Minde/grieveth the Soul, by drawing it out. of. Pleaſure; from whence every diſcaſc of the Soul proceedeth: x6; [But ‘the great Diſcaſe of the Soul is Atheiſin, becauſe that opinion followeth to all Evil; and no Good. . 17. Therefoiethe Minde reſiſting, | ; procureth 

’ DBermes T1 jeg F* ſprocuteth” Good to’the’ Soul” hyfician health to the Body. 18. ‘But’as many” Souls of men £4 «| do not/admir orchtertain the 58 for their Governar, do Fs es thing’thar-the $5 .unre onible hvingepng Ys Forthe Soulbent 2 Elle IS: - them, pexmirs or leaves Jas by | their cdheup Hcences) Whetet ate carried” by ehet6ruchit BF heh Ap. petite, and fo tend to brpies fce* 726 42d.” Arid as briie Beaſts,” they fre. angry without reaſos; ‘andthey: clire wichour reaſon, and i ficycr. ceaſe,” nor are ſarisfied with evil,” + 4 05 ’ 2x. For anreaſotibHile Angers and Defites ; are che moſt exceeding I Eck “And therefore-hath God ſer the Minde over thele, asa Rovenger and Reprover of they. + 23. Tat. Here, O Father, thardiſcourſe of- Fate or Deſtiny, which thou madeſt ro. me; is in’danger to be oyerthrown :

142 The: «leye nth Pogko chrown-: Forifi be Fazal for any, may 5 ro comme; Adlerpor ace, Or dc ic 209 5x AEM d.alſo,, uh ovet | di-necel icy. - irkot fi |: q rDelnys \ T by. 24+, Ye “Ni 26, 0.5 gn, arg the work of Þ ate, and withqyy Jt. FAY | he POLY ---_ Ge 3 Epi : il de 231; | ir Oc it 1S.decn that a os oh APE ale: ſuffer F or it, -,. | ng: ther fore be i, that] © bewiy ok ha which dope tht hecauls e did, | 27. But forthe enecka’ Jer alone that Gh-,, CONGerming Evil and Fare, at Other tamgs we _ Jpokes ; of it #3, ir differs, and is in, men ſuch 20ne,but in hae Beaſts changed. | . . 29. And again, an bruit Braſts i itis DEN but.in men by quenching

| Hermes Triſmogſtw;” 143. | TA ogh their Anger and Concupi| Ls ITE. of .men thou muſt under: | ſtand, ſoine ro be tartonal or gavern1 cd by, reaſov, and ſome APY, Wi: k vhs all men are ſubje&t Pate, nd 0 eneration, and Change ; for theſe Are. the beginning and <q of Fate-or 1 Yſtiny. n&al men ſuffer thofe thi 6 Es þ envſacs rr: ing Zit rattonal men, “over whom. 1K we fad, the de bears rle,” Fa | or. ſufgr like unto, other, men’; bur Felberfreh fron Vicioutnels, ad being not evil ,they do ſuffcrevil. 34. Tat. How fa yeſt than! ‘this* as gain Father : : An Avulterer, is .h4 nor evil -: a Purtherct, is he not evit’s 2nd ſo alt others. 25. Yerm, Bur the rational man, O Son, ,: wilt nor if uffer for Adulety; bur as the Adulteres,” nor for Marcher,bue, as the Mirtherer.. oo .36- [Andi is impaſſible to. cleave

144 The elevench Book! ol. the Qualiry of Chadge, 25 bf Gene: thi ration, bur the Viciouſneſs , “heghbat RB hach, 5 1B Minde, may eſcape. 47h And therefore, O Son, ‘T have M $ heard the good: Denion ſay, Iu he had delivered it in writing, he had much profited all waprnde : For he alone, O Son; as the firſt born, God, ſecing all things, tr uy Take Divine words. I have heard him ſay lome crimes, Mhat all thiags are one things £‘pect ly jatelligible Bodies, c2 that all eel ly intelligible Bodies are one. . We live in Power, in AQ, and in EE, 7 39:,: Therefore. 2 good Minde, is th: 1! which the Soul of. him is. .. | And if this be ſo, theri ns intelFowbie thing differs from intelligible thin S. 41. “As therefoft iris poſſible that the-Minde, the-.Prince of all c ings; ſo Itkewife; that the ‘Soul that is of God,, can do wharſoeverir will. 43- Bur underſtand thou well, ve als

y »] ; c 4 [ b | ] Hermes Triſmegiſtut.. 145 “Re this” Diſcourſe: I have made to the Queſtion which thou’askeſt of me be{ fore, I mean concerning Fare and the 6 Minde. . =: ” 43. Firſt, if, O Son, thou ſhalt diligently wichdraw thy (elf from. all Contentious ſpecches,thob ſhalt finde that in Truth, the Minde, the Soul of God bears-rule oyer all things, both over Fate, -and Law, and all other things. * ones He 44. And nothing 1s impoſſible to him, no not of the things that are of Fate: FE T0 | | 45. Therefore, though the Soul of man be above ir, let it not negle& the things that | happen* co | be under Fate. -46. And theſe thus far, were rhe excellent ſayings of the * good Dez mon. ;25p | = 47- Tat. Moſt divinely Tpoken, ‘O Father, - and truly and profitably, yet clear this one thing unto’/me; __ . * 48, Thou has il in bruit m \ | cne ---_

14.6 1,he eleyvemth Book of the Minde workethor acteth after mancs of Nature , co-operating al . .with.cheir 4 us, impetus) inclinaci ons. . -:49- . Now: the impetuous inclinati ens of . Þruic Beaſts, as I conceive, ard Paſhons:, If therefore the Minde dc co-operate with theſe impetuous In clinations, and that they are the Pafſions in bruic Beaſts, certainly rhe Mindeis alſo a Pafſion, conforming it ſJelf C0 Paſlions:. | . 50. Yerm. Well done Son, thou askeſt nobly, and yer it is juſt that T ſhouldanſwerthee. - $51. All .iacorporeal things, O Son, that are inthe Body,are paſlible, nay, they are properly Paſſions. . $2. .Every thing that moverh 1s incorporeal , every thing that is moved Sa Body , and it is moved into the : Bodies by che Minde +: Now Motion is Paſhon, and there they both ſuffer z as well that which moveth , as thas which is moved, as well that w_ VA | ruleth,

” Hermes T riſmegiſtur. 14.7 | ”__ * >< _---_--- 1s ruled. ; 3. Boy! ced from the B * It i “Fred likewiſe from Paſkon. og tid 54+ But eſpecially, O Son, there is 2rd . nothing impaſlible, bur all things arc dd paſſible. n 55- But Paſſion differs from thar 1) which is paſſible 3 for thar (Paſhon) MJ aceth, but this ſuffers. ith - 56+ Bodies alfo .of themſelves do at; forcither they arc unmoveable, u orelſe are moved; and which ſacver 78 itbe,itis a Paſſion, 57. Bur incorpareat things doal| ww a@, or work, and therefore they 1 paſlible. be” 16 Let not therefore the appcllari. | on$or names trouble thee, for Afftion [| and Paſſion are the ſame thing, bur that ir is not grievous to uſe the more honorable name, 59. Tat. O Father, thouhbaſt.delivered this Diſcourſe moſt plainly. 60, Þerm. Conſider this allo; O $00, T hat God hath freely beflowed L 2 upon

| 148 Theeleventh Book of upon man, above a-ather living things, theſe two, to wit, Minde and Speech, or Reaſon, iy, equal td ims» mortality. 3X - 61, Theſe if any man uſe,or implpy upon what he ought, he ſhall differ nothing from the Immorrtals. 62. Yea rather going our of, the Body, he ſhall. be guided and led by them, both into the Quier and Society of the Gods, and bleſſed Ones. ’ 63+. Tat. Do not other living Creaeures uſe Speech, O Father? : 64. Yerm. No, Son, but onely Voyce; now Speech and Voyce. do differ excecding much ; for Sp:ech is commonto all men, bur Voyce is proper unto every kinde of living thing. 65. Tat. Yea, but the Speech of men is different, O Father ; every man according to his Nation. 66: Þerm. Ir is true,O Son,they do differ : Yer as man is one, ſois Speech one alſo; and it is interpreted and found

found the ſame, both’i 1 Cgypt, Per ſia, | and Grece:/ 67. Butthonu ſcemeſt unto me, Son, to be ignorant of the Vertue,or Powcr, and Greatneſs gf ‘Speech, © 68, For the bleſſed God, the good Demon” faid or commanded the Soul ro be inf the Body{*the Minde, in the Soul; 6599) the Word, or Speech, or Realon-i in the Minde, and the Minde in God, and that God is the Father of them alt. Y 69. Therefore! the Word” is the Image of the Minde, and the Minde of God, and: the Body of ‘the Jvea, and the Jdea of the Soul. | 70. Therefore of the Marter, the fubtileſ or ſmalleft partis Air, of the Air the Soul, of the Soul the Minde, of thie’ Minde God. ** ‘:71: And God is abour I things, and throughall things, bfitthe Minde abour rhe Soul , *the Soul abourthe Air, and the Airabout the Martrer. es Bur Neceffity, and Providence, L 3. and.

eleventh Bock of 150; and Nature, are the Organs or Inſtru-. ments of the World, and af the Or» der of Matter, 74 3. ‘Forof thole’things that re jntelligibls,cvery one is z but the Eſſence of them is Identity, 74 Butofthe Bodies of the whole, or “I Se 2 one is many things. Bodies that are pus roWL} fo and that have, and make their changes into other, having this Identity, do always ſave and preſerve the uncorruption of the Identity, 76. But in every one of thecompound Bodies, there isa number. For without : Number it is nnvolt by there ſhould, be conſiſtence or conſt LUTION, or compoſition , or difſolueion. 78. But Unities do both beger and increalc ‘Numbers, ; and again being diflolyed, come into themſelves, 79. Andihe Matter is One, \80. But this whole World, the great God, and the Image: of the Greater,

Hermes Trifmegiſtae. * 1 Greater, and united unto him , 2nd conferving the Order, and WA ofthe Father, is Rh fulneſs of Life. $1. And there is nothing therein, throngh\all the Eternity off the Revolutions, neither of the whole; nor of the parts which doth not Ive. © $2. Forthere is nothing dead, that either hath been, or is, or Malt be rn the World. $3. For the Father woudhive itas long asir lafts,to, be a rngrhgae therefore. ir muftneeds be God alfo. $4. How therefore, ‘O Sor, car there be in God, jnthe Ima. Univerfe, in the fulneſs of 1 tte, + dead ings e OO AHERN. $5. For dying is corruprion ,”: nd Fa corruption is deſtruaion. . © 4 $6. How then.can any part fee incorruptible be corrupted) of of God be deſtroyed ? $7. Tat. Therefore; © Father, a notthe living things inthe Waj “di though rhey be parrs thereof. L 4 88. Horm,

152 The eleventh Bookvf | 88. Þerm- Be wary in thy Speech, O Son, and not fue dhe inthe Ft | of things. + | | | $9.. For they do: not. die, O Son, bur as compound Bodies they are difſolved. 90. ..But diſſolution is not deathzand they are diffolved, .not that they may be deiroyed, but that they. may be made new. x) - 91. Tat. What then is the operation of .Life 2 Isit not Motion.? _ © 92…Yerm. And what is there inthe World, unmoveable ©. Nothing ar all, | O Son… | .93- Tat. Why, doth not the Earth ſeem unmoveableto thee, - O Father e 94+ YHerm, No,bur ſubje&tro many motions, though after a maner, it a- Jone be ſtable. en 95% ,Whart a ridicutous thing irwere , that the Nurſe of all things ſhould he unmoveable, which beareth and bnngeth forth all chings * 96. For it. 15: impoſſible , that any IR _ thing 

3 Hermes Triſmegiſtus: 153 thing thar bringeth forth, ſhould being forth withour Motion. 97-. Anda ridiculous queſtion. i itis, Whether the fourth part ofthe whole, be idle : For the word immoveable, or without Motion , fignifies powung ele, bur idleneſs. 98. Know generally, O Son, That whatſoever is in the World, is moved either according to Augmentation or Diminurion. | 99. But that which is moved.liverh alſo,ycrit is not neceſfary,thata living thing ſhould be or continue the ſame. 100. For while the whole World is together, it is unchangeable;O Son, bur all the parts thereof are changeable. 101. Yet nothing is corrupted or deftroyed, and quite - aboliſhed, bur the names trouble men. . 102. For Generation is not Life, byt Senſe; neither is Change Death, bur Forgcrfulneſs, or rather Occultation, and lying hid. | 02-1 Oc

I54. The eleventh Book of [1 Or betrerthus. | pa 102, F0z Generation is not a Creation | of Life, buta pzoduction of things fo Senſe, | and making them manifeff. Neith-r is ’ Change Death, buf an occulfafion 02 hiding of that which was. oY 103. Theſe things being ſo, all FF things are Immortal, Matter, Life, Spirit, Soul, Minde , whercof every living thing confſifterh. Ee 104. Every living thing therefore, is Immortal, becauſe of the Minde, bur eſpecially Man, who both receiveth God ,, and: converſcth with him. 105. For with this living wight atone is God familiar ; in rhe night by dreams, in the day by Symbols or Signes. (e2 106. And by-all things doth he forerel. him of things ro come, by Birds, by Fowls, by the Spirit, or Wind, and by an Oke. ’ r07.- Wherefore alſo Man profecfserh ro know things thar have been, : things

| things rhar are preſcnt, and things to 4 OMe. it | 168. Conſider this alſo, O- Son, ny other living Creature goupon one part of theWorld,Swim- . - : ings in the Water, Land wig hes. che Earth, Flying Fowls in rhe ”_ Bur Man uſeth all theſe, the: arth, the*‘Water, the Air, and the IFire, nay, he ſceth and roucherh HeaJven by his Senſe, 110, But God 1s. both eboir all things, and through all chings ; for he is both At and Power. 111. Anditisnohard thing,O Son, to underſtand God, 112. Andif thon wilt alfo ſee him, look upon the Neceſltty of things that | appear, and ehe Providence of things |that have been, and are done. . “117. Sce the Matter bcing. moſt full of Life, and. fo great a. God. moved with all Good, and Fair, both. Gods, and Demons, and Men. I14. Tak, e “Hermes Triſm ooo, = ---------_

\ 156 The eleventh Book off -114; Taft. Bur:theſe ,’ | O: Father | are wholly Ads, or Operations. +. -þ . 115.. Yerm. Tf they be therefor wholly Acts or Operations, , O-Son{ by whom are they acted or operaredP’ but by God e i 1! 116. Or art thouignorant, that ag the parts of the World, arc Heave and Earth, and Warer, and. Air “after the ſame maner the Members off God, are Life,* and Immortality, .andf Eternity, and Spirit, and Neceſſity * and :Providence ,:‘and Nature, and Soul, and Minde, and the Cantinu-ſ ance or Perſeverance of all theſc which is calted Good. 117. And there.is not any thing 0 all chat hath ‘been, and alt.char is, where God is nor. 444 007; 118. Tat. Whar, in the Matter, O Father e 19. Yerm. The Matter, Son, what] is it withour God , that thou ſhould(ſt aſcribe a proper place to ir 2 | 120, Or whas doſtthou think it to : be

| Herne Trijmegiftut. “-15Y y De f G Hot aired or operated, adventire ſome heap that is, 121. Butifir by a@uired, by whom. is it actuated e for we have ſaid, thar Jas PIPES, are the parts of God, * 122 By na are all living things quickned 2 -and the Immortal , by Twhom are they immortalized? the things that are changeable, by whom are they changed. 123. Whether thou ſpeak of Matter, or Body, or Eflence, know thar all theſe are as of God. 124. And thar the Ae of Matter is materiality , and of the Bodies corporality, and of Eflence eſſentiality 3 and this is God the whole. 125. And inthe whole, there is nothing that is not God, 126. Wherefore about God, there is ncicher Greatneſs, Place, Quality, Figure, or Time, for he is All, ns he All, chrough all , and about all. 127. This

| : The cleventh Book © 127. This Word, O Son, ,worſhi and adore, And the onely. 5] God, is not to be evil. The end of the eleventh Book. T The

The Twelfth Book +; ’ OF Hermes T riſmegiſtus. Hyu Crater or Monas. =27JHce Workman made SF this Univerſal World, 2 not with his Hands, bd bur his Word. 00 2. Therefore thus =. think of bim, as preſent every where, and being always, and making all things zand one above, that by his Will hath framed the things thart are. 3. Forthar is his Bodyznot tangible, | ngy

43% The twelfth Bookof .nor viſible, -nor. meaſurable,—nor cxFoſble norlike any other body, | : Por ir is neirher Fire, nor Warer, Re. Air, nor Wind, bur all theſe things arc of him; for being”Good, he hath dedicatcd that name” unto himſelf alone. | 5. But he would alſo adorn the Earth-, .but with the Ornament of a Divine Body. 6. And he ſent Man an Immortal; and a Mortal-wight.’ 7. And Man had more then all living Creatures, and the World ; becauſe of his Speech, and Minde. 8. For Man became the ſpe&ator of the Works of God, and wondetcd, and acknowledged the Maker. *. 9, For he divided Speech among all men, bur’ not Minde , and yet he envied not any; for Envy comes not thither, bur is of abode here belowin che Souls of men, thit have-nor the Minde, 10. Tat, Byt wherefore , No, ;

Hetmes Tiifnieniftlr: 161 di nor God difiWViite he Mirfe to. F 1 70 .3L titt, 47: Yerin. Baile i Sleardly thn, O S6H’ts fer that inthe middleamong! atl ſouls, as A ard ro ftrive for. ‘13:: Kat, And where harh hefer ir * 1;, Herm. 2h ok a’large Cup: or Bowt: therewith c ſer 1c down, giving alſo a Cryeror Proclaimer.’ . An4 he commanded him LO Pro hi theſc things to the fouls of mens 15. Dip and waſh: thy ſelf, thouthar aft able in-chis Cup or Bow! :: Thou : that beleeveſt,, tharthou ſhale return to him thar ſent this Cup; thouthar acknowledgeſt whereunto thou wert. made. | 16. As many therefore as underſtbod rhe Proclamation , and were baptized or dowſed into che Minde, theſe were made partakers of Knowledg, and became perfect men, re--- the Minde. Bur as many. as miſſed of the Popclamarion, they received Speech, .M bur * ©” _--- o--- ” we

162 The ewelhBookof bur not Minde being BD FEW>, unto they were made, or by w 18. But.chcir Senſes;arc juſt Gro bruic Beaſts, and-having theirgemper in Anger Wrath, ency do not admire het things worthy of flookiies p 19. - But wholly addi&ed to t pirates and deſires of the Bodies, hey belecve that man was made for them. … 20. Bur as many. as partaked © of the gift of God , theſe, O. Tat, in corpariſon of their works, arc rather immortal then mortal. taen… -...: 21., Comprehendiog all things, i in. their. Minde, which:arc- upon Earth, | which are in Heaven, and if thergh any thing above Heayen., 22., And lifting up themſelyey. fo high, they ſceerhe/Good ; and ſeeing ir,they, account it a miſcrable ia to make their abode here. 23. And deſpiſing all things bodily and unbodily ,, they; make haſt to the Dne andDnely, 24. Thus

v3 A VD @® + Hermes Trifmegiſtut. x63 Thus,. O Tat, is the Knowledg of “he Minde. . the! beholding of Divine ‘things , andthe Underſtanding of God, the-Cupir ſelf being Divitie - 25, Tat. And l. © Father, would be baptized and drenched therein” 26. Herm. Except thou firſt haterthy body, ©: Son ; thou canſt ‘tiot- fave thy {eis; ; bur loving thy ſclf,chou thafr have the Minde ,- and having’ the Minde., thou ſhalt: alſo partake” The Knowledg or Science. 27. Tat. How meaneſt thou thar, Q Father ? 28; Þerm. Becauſe ir is impoſſible; O Son, to be converſant about things Mortal and Divine. 29, For the things that are, being ewo Bodics, and things incorporeal, wherein is the Mortal and the Divine, the Eleion/ or Choice of either is left ro him thar will chuſe: For no man-canchuſe both.. 30. And of which ſoever the: choice made the other being diniiniſbed M 2 or

164 Therwelfth Book of ordvercome, magnifieth the at and operation.of the other. .< 174 0 - -$1<\ The choice of the better there fore; is nor dnely-/beſt for bim-thar chuſcth, irs by deifying:a:man!; bur ir alſorfhewerl: Picry’:and. Religipn rowards God… [IG95Z A. AIRNE V2 1/33.:;But’ the. choice : of. the worſe deſtroyes a man; bur doth nothing againſt God , ſave. that. as Pomps or Pageants , when they. come abroad, cannot do any thing themſclves - but hinder ; after the ſame maner alſo do theſe make Pomps or Pageants in the World, being ſeduced by the plea{ures of. che Body. 33. Theſe things being ſo, O’Taf, that things have been, and are ſo plenrcoully miniſtred to us from God ;; Jer them proceed alſo from us, withour any ſcarcity or ſparing. ’ 34+ For God is innocent or guiltleſs, bur we are the cauſes of Evil,::prefering thom before tht Good. - —. . 35. :Fhouſceſt, O Son, how many Bodies

_--- * Hermes Triſmegiſue. 16s Bodies we muſt go beyond, ahd tiow many wers’ of Demnbns , and whar continuity and courſes of Stars, that we_may*make haſt to the One, ‘and onely-God. ’ | os For the Good is not to be 1 tranſcended, it’is-unbounded and infinite ; unto ir fe}f withour beginning , hur unto us, ſeeming to haye a begintiing, even our knowledp of It. 37- For our knowledg is not the beginning of-it , but ſhews us the beginning of its being known unto us. 3$. Let ustherefore lay hold of the beginning, and we ſhall quickly go through all things. 39. Iris indeed a difficult thing,‘to leave thoſe things that are accuſtomable, and preſent, and turn us to thoſe rhings that are anctent, and according to the original. 40. For theſe things that appear,delight us, bur make the chings char appear not, hard to beleeve, cz te things that yrege not, are hard to bel&@ve, M 3 41. The

166 The twelfth Book of ., 41+: T he things moſt: apparenc are Evil, bur Fwy ya, is ſecrety; or-hid in, or tothe things thar appear; for it bath neither Form nor Figure.,… . © 432. For this caule ir is like.ro it ſelf, bur. unhike every: thing elſe ; for it is impoſlible,thar any thing incorporeal, ſhould be made known,. or appearto a Body. 6; ag, ‘43- For this. is the difference between the like and the unlike yand the unlike wanteth always ſomewhat of the like. 44. For the Unity, Beginning, and Root of all things, as being the Root and Beginning. 45- Nothing is without a begining, bur the Beginning is of nothing, bur of ir ſelf; for it is the Beginning of all ather things. 46. Therefore ir is, ſecing it is nor from another beginning. 47. Unity therefore being the Beinning , containeth every number ; inni Pur it 1clf is contained of none, and begerterh

minde, and heart, belecye Ne, Son, lead thee. atid draws unto’f, as they fay, the Loadftone dorh Iron. they po: | Hermes Triſmegiftus. 167 SIT nam ny Yo it ſclf being ke of -n no:other wubeks BUD. to of a < ae there hapneufhone o 6 tr pt d RD wW Dare is increaſed, is increaſed by Unityz bur is conſumed and vaniſhed thraygh pdt ag notdblero receive 51. This Image of GoT, have I deſcribed to: thee, O Tat, as well as I could whichif\chou:dgdiligencly confider, and view by the eyes of thy thou ſhalr finde the ways above, or rather chel io =o | * 52), Burthe ſpeRtacleſ If Oahbc,-Hat this’ pecutiar and þr “KT ein th can ſee, and beho a it, .It is.) he end’of the twelfth Book. M 4 The

The: Tr Book “02 2 QF: if 4 PEE Fn ONES Sy 3 APY ’#% of. Cn and ende Pandng ’” courſe ; but “now. 1 - think 1 My neceſlary., in EE {uicc of thar, ro diſpute ------ lo of Senſe, 3. For. Senſe and Underſtanding ſecmro differ, becauſe the one is material, rhe other eſſential. -| 3- But

Thea, Boo CTC. ct69 3—:Pux uato me, thty. appear 59: be £2 hor, ones: OT united; 46d. AQ. divided .inimen, ] MEAN, 244216 —14-»F06, 19. other, living Crearures, S Senſ(e-i5 uyniied-.yntq-,Nature:, Huge 1 in ,mea4q\ Underſtanding. _ , | 5. Buriche Minde; (differs TAS > aJeritanding » as much. as God from Divinty.. 6, Fox Diviniry;is (9m) from.or un.dex God, and Underſtanding, from the Minde > being the! ſiſter-of the Wordor Specch, and chey the Inſiguments one of anorher. ‘-7. For . neither, is the Word. .ptonounced without Uladerſ}anding;.neither 1s, | Underſtanding - manitcited without the-Word..: \ $: Therefore Senſe, and Underſtanding do both flow rogerher inzo i man.,:‘as if they ,were infold ed qe within another. 7 9: For neither is jt poſlible withque Senſc to Underſtandznor can we have Senſe without Undacſlanding 10. And

” _ “Then” Bookoof | 1 ad “And yetit is (topje tin abu bot; } thc Ne ner 6h underſtand withour Senſe 1-8 , «US vhi charFantaſie Vikoris in their: Dream all ’ Ft. Bur ir Feem$‘iUnto me, chat Goto? the operations fe’in rhe Viſions off ! Dtcims, and-chavthe Senſeis ſtirred bY _ wa fleep,unto awaking” --- [ 8u . For man is divided into a Body Fr W Soul « “which both parts of the 0 ---_ -accord one’wich another, then b $/ the” Underftatiding childed ,” orf L btoighr forth “y the Minde pro- l nounced. ‘x3: For the Minde brings forth all , IntclleQions ’- or+- Underftandings ’-| ! Good ones, when ic receiveth good || | Secd from God ; and thecontrary, | when ir receives them from Devils. 14. ‘For rlhers’-is no Parr ‘of the World voyd of the Devil, which enrering in privately, ſowed the feed of his own proper-operation’ and the Minde did make-pregmant ;’ or did bring forth thi” whicly was ſown, Adulteries,

Hermes Trifmegiſts. 191 ; in texies > Purtþers , Striking of Pa>, @acriledges, Jmpleties 5 Dfrange throwing down headlong) find Arp things which arethe auils xllof- evil Demons.:;; «;: 10 15. Andthe Seeds of God ark few <4 but;Grear, and Fair,;and Goad, . Ver” [rue-and Temperance, and Picty., | + {yl - 16. And the Piery is the: Knowledg tel of God , whom. whoſoeverknoweth hf being full of all good things’, . hath rj} Divine Underſtanding , and not uke P the Many. 17. And therefore they char have | | that Knowledg,, neither pleaſe the | multitude, nor the multitude them, | but they ſcem to be mad, andto move laughter, hated and deſpiſed and many times alſo murthered. 18. For we have alrcady ſaid, Thar wickedneſs muſt dwell here, being; in herown region. 19, For her region is the Earth, and natthe World;as ſome will fometimes ſay, Blaſpbeming. 20. Bur 6

172 -‘The13*Bookof 20. * But the godJy of God-worſhipy ing Man laying hold on Knowleds A will deſpiſe” or tread- under alt chef chings y :for.rhough they. be evil t ‘2 other men, yet to wal all things’a in good. ’: = 21. -And- upon marure confideratigeo on, -he-refers all things to Knowledgfla and. rhar which is moſt ro be wondtec at, he alone makes evil things good. {ſti 22. -But I return again-ro my Diſ-Þri courſe of Senſe. pl 23, Itis therefore a thing proper to Man ;/to communicate and conjoyn} 3 Senſe and Underſtanding. n ſ | 24. But every man, as 1 faid before, doth: not enjoy Underſtanding ; for one man is material , another efſenrial. 25.. And he that is material - with wickedneſs, as I ſaid, received from the Devils the Seed of Underſtandbur they that are with the Good TE are ſaved with God. 26. _ God is the Workman - | a

If Hermes Trlfmegifiu. + 173 Jo | things; “and when he worketh, he Þſerh Nature. > . 7 27- He maketh al things good! like arqhimſclf. ” | 28. But theſe things that are hide tifgood,! arc inthe uſe of Operation ung fawfal. | ed 29. Forthe Moziod of the World Iftirring-up Generations, makes Quali{ ties z infeQing ſome with evilnefs,and purifying ſome with good. of 30. Andthe World, Alclepius, bath nf a peculiar Senſe and Underſtanding, not like to- Mans, nor fo varions or | manifold , - bur’ a berter and more | fimple. | —371.- For the Senſe- and Underſtand: ing of the World” is One, in that it makes all things , and unmakes them again into it ſe]f, for it is the Organ ot Inſtrument of the Will of God. ‘32. Anditis ſoorganized’ or framed, and- made for an Inſtrument by | God ; that receiving all Seeds into it ſelf from Gbd , and keeping them in it

174 . The 3* Book of it (If, it:maketh all things effecoally, and iſfolving chem e renewetly all Tunge, . . And therefore like a 700d HusVP of Life, when Gs arc diſlolved or looſened , he affords b the caſting of Seed, renovation to all things chat grow. - 34-T here is nothing thar ir ( rhe World) doth nor beget or bring forth alive ; and by its Motion, it makes all things alive. 34; Andirtis at once, both the Place and. che Workman of Life. | - 36» Bur. the Bodies are from the Marrter, in a different maner; for ſome are of the Earth, ſome of Warr , ſome of Air, ſome of Fire , andall are compounded , but ſome arc more compounded, and ſome are more ſimple, 37-. They that are compounded,are the heavier, and they that are leſs, arc the higher. 38. Andthe Criſis of the Motion

Hermes Triſegiſus. 17s g on of che World,- makes the varieties. of the, aſtries of, Generaiony, OE. - c ſproon or hers by ng ol. uent,. extcadeth unto the oe ities, with one. fu 06s whi &* Life. 39. Therefore, God’js the; f ft the World, bur World ist Father of; ‘chings in World. 40. And the World Is the Son of God, but things inthe Yorld ire che Sons of the World. ; 41.. And, therefore; is well c led /oz@y the World,.. thar is an’Ornament, becauſe it adorneth and Net. fieth all things with. the varict Generation, and indeficiency gf Ties which the Cn of Qperation, and the Ee of Neceſſity ,. with the ming f Elements,,, = the order of th in, RE… 42. Therefore it is neceſſarily, and prope oy called oG:the World; « 43-. For of all living things s, both the Senſe, and the Under anding, cometh _

176 Ther Book’bF- -\ cometh into them from without, inſpited by . rhat© which © compaſſerh rhem abour, ‘and continucth them. | “44. And the World” receiving it once from God aflgon as it was made, hath ir ſtill, what everit on e had. | 45. Bur God js nor as it ſeems to ſome who Blafpheme through ſuperNicion, ’ withour, Senſe, and withour Minde, or Underſtanding.. , © 46. Forall things that are, O Afclepius, are. in God, and made by him, and depend of him, ſome working _ by Bodies, fome moving by’a Soul. like Eſſence, ſome quickning, by a’ Spirit, and ſome receiving the things that are weary, and all very fily. 47. Or rather, I ſay, thar he hath them nor, bur I declare the Truth; be is all things, not receiving them from without, but*exhibiting them outwardly. - h RTE” 48. And this is the Senſe and Under- : ſtanding of God, ro move all things always. 49. And

Miermes Toifmegiſtis. iny = -1:45:/ : And there ſhall never: be. any ‘tims- when any.of thoſe rhings char are; ſhall fit oribe-waming,. {043 + .50/When1 ſay.the’things thar-are, I mcan God; for the things. thatare, God hath ; and: nticher’is-ehere: any thing wichour”hinv;* nor he withour . any thing. 51. Theſe things, O Afclepins, will appear to be true, if chou underſtz them; bur-if thou vnderftafid v nor, incredible. 52, For to underſtand , is to beleeve; but not to beleeve, is nor to underſtand: For my ſpeech or words reach not unto the -Trurh, bur rhe Minde is great, and beingledor conducted fora while by Speech, is able co attain to the Truth. ’ 53- And underſtanding all things round about, and finding them con{6nant, and agreeable to thoſe things that were dclivercd, and interrupted by Speech, beleeverh ; and in that good belict, reſterh. | N 54. T0

- 27$ The 13*Book, “CM ” 54. To them therefore that ynderRand rhe chings thas : been faid of God ,. they are crediMe ; but to them that underſtand them, nat, incredible. $5- And [ertheſe , and thus many things, be ſpoken eoncerning Under» ftaming and Senſe, The end of “i thirteenth Book.

5 WW HM ---: ’ a LA a : » , . . 4 5 \ a k ” # } ( 5 tx { | . 0. « ’ A” - > Xx þ 1 : | $ ; The i angel Book FL Ti riſmagitu. » Of Operation and Senſe, = cher; Teach whe fi SESWR more theſe things ; , for *” - thou ſayeR, tha octence and Art were che Operarigns, of the rational , ’ bur gow thou Aayeſt, that Beafts are unreaſonable, and for wagt | and ht calle

-Wo The 14. _ oF 2. _ It muſt nceds be ſo SM-2 [44929310 T al 1 “Eat yt fs Father, do we fie ſome rey hen living Creaeures ule þoch Science and Ar; ? as the Piſndivds\iF yr for theid(clves food again the Y Winer, _ Fowls of the Air like wiſe make them Nelts,and four- fobted: Beaſts\know rheir own _ | q:. TH ſe thi be nor Y, IEAce Of L.,out Natul fox Scie She or Art axe t things. | ji LEANS (caught, uf none, O i: clc brue Beal MI any.0 c things.” -© A Hi eo afypal bo (FUE WP, hgt ‘Þ(#

Hermes TriſmegsftÞ. 18k have learacd ſomgghing by thewark-.. ing 0 Science Or ATC. NOT 7.; Afiet che; fame-martenghſo, if foms Piiulres did wi be and ---_--- thou mighteſt well ſay, c er; their Food accordingiro Sengceand Azz : +, | A412 41] 5013 366 $,.’Bur being ! A are all.led; by, Naiyre:,- tg” rhe ſame thing! — even againſt theif” wills, it is manifeſt they. do; not..do;; i by SCIencg or Art. /.. 9. For Operations, © Tak, being tits, are in Bodies, -and warkby Bodies. to. -Wherefore,.O Tat; in as much as they are unbodjy, thou muſt neefes ſay my are/immortal,* | -,..;” Butin as. much ,as they cannot: a without Bodies, L fo, FRY aroalways1 ina Body. - 124, For x hong . things be. are ro any-. thing ,- or for he .Caulc., of anything made ſubjc& ro Providence or : Neceſſity ,— cannor- - poſhbly , re| N 3 main

main idle’of their’own proper Opetation. | 13. Forthat which is,ſhall ever be ; for both/the Body, arid the Life of it, 14. And by this reaſon, it follows, that the Bodies alſo are always, becauſe T affirm, Tharthis corporiety is aways by the AQ and Operation, or for them. © 25.” For although’earthly bodies be ſubjeQ rodiſſolurion yer theſe bodies muſt be the Places, and the Organs, and Inſtruments of Ads or Operations. | 16, But Ats or Operatibns are immortal , and that which is immortal; 1s always in At, and therefore alſo Coppozification if ir be always. ’ 19. Ads or Operations do follow the Soul, yet come not ſuddenly or promifcuouſly;butfome of them come together with being made min, being about bruiciſh or unreaſonable things. - x8. “But: the purer - Operations do | | in 

: 2 » Hermes rg. 183 inſeofibly in the of time,work with the oblique part of rhe Soul: . 14 And-theſe Operations depend upotrBodics, -and truly they tharare Coxpozifying, come from the Divine Podies:into Mortal ones. ‘. 20. But every one of them. acech borh-abour rhe-Body and:the Soul, and are-preſent: with rhe Soul, even withour the Body. 21. And theyare always Ads or Operations, but the Soul is not always in a Mortal Body , for ircanbt wi _ otita Body, but Adts or Opcritions _--- be withour Bodies. —/ This is aſacted ſpeech; Son; The! Wody cannot conſiſt withoat a Soul. -53. Tat. How meaneſt citouthar, prank g: 31 24 4. Yerm. Underſtand: iv: cus; 0 Tat, Whenthe Soul is ſeparated from tao there. remainerh thar ſame. | 25. And this ſam Body ecobidiig tothe time of-irs OF 7 himed 43 or

184- AY enFBook:of\ b, or operated. intharivis rn wane | becomes invifible. 1106 57 1.260 And_cheſe things the Rody canndt- ſuffer \without:acd ox operation, atideonſequenthythere retaainerh with the Body the fante ac; op! ‘bpe- | Fattion. 1187-: /This theh, inthe diwencg hes Tween an:Immortal Body, and -aMorral one, that the immortal one conſiſts of one Mater ,; and-ſo doth-.nox ghe mortal -one;; and: the immortal. one doth, bur this {uffereth, 7 28.1 And (every/\thing that. adterh or operatcth, is ſtronger, and ruleth, but thatwhich is actuated. or opirated, 1sruled. - 29«:And’that which ruleth, direceth, and governeth as free , - but he other eda ſervant. . we ’ Acts or Operations do not oneoroperate, living or breathng or inſouled (va) Bodics, bur Ho::broathleſls Bodies: or wichour Souls: --------- = egy and fuch + £4 Uk. 4 Yo like |

Hermes Triſmegift#. a8s like.encrealing andbracing fruitgzipens ing, corxupting, raging, putrityl and horegling, (oe orking, ſuc | thing$-1;and ver: it Bodies can fo, 4 B- i909 413%-;A@; or Operation, Q. Sqn, i is called, whatſoever,ils,: of -is made-or done 3; and: there-are always many things made, or ratherall chings.;« ;. -.32-; For the’Woxtd: is never wadowed-.or, forſaken; of; any af: thoſe things that are ; bur being alway,carried ormoved inic.ſelf, It is’ in [abor to bring forth. the’things that, are , which ſhall never, be left by it xo cor» ruption. } g33. Let therefoxe every. act or Operation be-underſiagd co be always imral, i in,what maner of Body ſacyer it ©1IS&s Bur ſome Ads or Operations be of. Divine; ’ ſome of corruprible Bodies, ſome uniyerſal, ſome peculiar,; ant fome. of. the generals, and ’ ſome of the parts gf very thing. | 35+ Divine

i$6 -The Th Book of” 8 24 [Divine Acts ‘or Operations / therefore thete’ be,/ and- ſuch as work ori operate upon”their proper Bodies and” ‘thefe alſo: are perfe@z-and: heirig upon or in perfect Bodies.” 15> 25 36. Particular;arethey whith-work by any of the living Creatures, + . 37. Proper, be they that work op-+ on any of the things that are, ’ /-433. By this Diſcodtſe therefore, -O Son, ifs gathered that all things are ful of Ads orion: BN CEP 29. For if neceſſarily they ’ be in every Body , and that there be many Bodies in the World, I-may very well affirm, chatthere be many other Acts or Operations. £5 7 40. For many times in one Body, there is.one, and a fecond,and 4 third, _ theſe univerſal ones that folOW. -{. 41. And univerſal Operations , 1 call them that ateifnideed bodily, and are-done by the Senſes and Motions, 42. For without theſe its one ig 5: ble bl ------

nd = &. “A CS ? Hermis Thiſagiftu. 185; {| ble char +che Body ſhouldi”confilt 43- Bur other Operations are’pþro+ per to the Souls of Men, al 5 Sciences, Studies, ant Ations,* “i! 44. The Senſes ilſo follow theſt Operations, or rathe are che effets or perfetions (wniciany of then. 45- Underſtand therefore, O Sun, the difference of Operations, it is fent from above. | ; \* OC \- 46. Bur Senſe being in the Botdy, and having its eſſence from it’; when ir receiverh AX or Operation, mani_--- it, making it/as it were Cotþ&6real. x C 243 47. Therefore, T- ſay, that the Senſes ate both corporeal and mattdl; having ſo much exiſtence as the Body; for they are borh with the Body, -aad48.. Bur mortal things themſelves have nor Senſe, as not confiſtiag of ſuch an Effence. « 4-008 £795 49. For Senſe can be no’ other then a corporeal One oy | 0 

8g; TheaqBook of of eyil-or good that. comes :10- the |-. Body. © = | - . $©., But to Eternal Bodies, ‘there is nothing;.comes ,, . nothing» departs ; therefoxe there isnq. Senſe inthem, — 51« Tat. Doth the Senſe therefore perceive or apprehend in every Bady £, | :;. 2+ . Yerm, .1n, every Body, O Son. | + 53: Taft. And do the Ads or Operations work in all things 2 | 54- FHerm, Evea.in things. inantmate, O. Son, bur there arc differences of Senſes. | | 55+ For the Senſes of. things rational, are with Reaſon z of things unreaſonable, Corporcal onely.;; but the Scaſcs of things ingnimare, are paſſive onely, according to Augmentation - $6: Bur Paſſion and Senſe depend both upon one head, or .height, and are gachered rogether into the ſame, by Ads or Operations, \ FI 57. But

$4 CM 3 ads extth Hermes Triſmboiftus. 189 57. But in living wights: there be is | two other Operations that follaw the 5 « | Senles..and, Paſſons , zo, wit, , “Grief © hrs: * 58. Ang without theſe, ir is imy | pefliblethar aliving wighc, eſpecially | a reaſonable one Boat PEICcLyE OF ) | apprehend. 2: 2500 59. And therefore; I ſay ,. that theſe are. the J>exs of Paſſions, thar bear rule, eſpccially ‘in’ reaſonable * living wights. : - rig 2H 50. The Operations work indeed, but the Senſes do declare and mani feſt the; Operations, and they being bodily,are moved by.rhe booth arts of the Soul ; herels E Tf are both malcfctil rtlbers’s evil. . 61. For that which affords rhe Senſe r6”rejoyce: wikh-Pleaſurty 8 ſtraighrway the cauſe of many evils happening to himthar ſuffers it. 62. But Sorrow gives ſtronger torments and Anguiſh, therefore doubt1&6 are they both malcficial. 63. The

199 The 14% Book, gc. 63. The ſame may be ſaid of ch ’ Senſe of che Soul.” BS SH -. 64. Tat. Is nor’the-Soul incorp9reat,and the Senſe 2 Body, Father 2? or **—15 it rather inthe Body 2? , - ., G5. Yerm. If we purit in a Body, O Son, we ſhall make ir like the Sonl or the Operations. For thefe being ynbodily, we ſay are in Bodies. - 66. Bur Senſe is neither Operation, Nor Soul, nor any thing elſe thar beTongs to the Body ; butas we have ſaid, and therefore iris not incorporeal. _. 67. And if it be not jincorpaxreal X muſt needs be a Body “for wealJ m ways ſay,chat of things that are,ſome 7 by are Bodies, and ſoine incorporeal. ’ The end of the fourteenth Book. The I hs, } \,

* bv Thi F FIRES ak OF ; Hermes Triſmey jhuw « kd Truth fo ow Jon Tit: << (2 5 noe polfble that ma Teal: Heing an uopet{e SOR, fe@t Members ‘L fad hahis yaberlied,, ; conſiſting of wa and man o--- > thould peak with any cv II my Bur as far as itis poſſible, and hs 1 fay, That Truth i is onel) inthe _

The i5* Book of * 392 Erexngl Bodies, Fhole yery.By Bodies AA T $ 43 LES, . 5 The! Fice iclire be vt ys; mocking «ſc; the Earchis carth ir “ſelf, and nothing elſe; the Air is air it ſelf, and nothing elſe’y- the Ware? water it _ and nothing elſe. Bur our Bodies conſiſt of all theſss forrhey, have of-the Fire, they | have of che Faith, they. have of the Air, nor any thing true. ‘. * \ 5. And if at the beginning, our Candrurion- nat. T cold. men. pac he FH “0 2 ty! CE would | “BA ll rbings reve tare por. Truth, Fog i 108 oft f Truths Bp yer -not a neither,” for. HAHA buc, fewt that ar ſo. ,»!4c. 9.Burthec ot are Fllhbod, | ang Deceit , ey pa “ug like ’ Water, and Air, and yet there is neither Kyeznor Eamb, nor Water, nor | ſpeak Bop: underRand Ic aber 0x

| Hermes Triſhegiftus. 193 © like the Images of the fantaſie or ap- | PEArance. ; > % oe $8: And when rthefantafie hath an f, | influence from above , then ir is an f | imitation of Truth , but without thar it | operation from above, it is left a lye. l s 9. And as an Image ſhews the. 7 | Body deſcribed, and yet isnot the > | Bodyof that which is ſeen, as it ſeems . ’| tobe; anditis ſeen ro have eyes, but - | itſees nothing, and ears, bur hears nothing at all ; and all other things hath ’ thepicture, bur they are falſe; deceiving the eyes of the beholder, whileſt they think they ſec the Truth, and yer they arcindeed burlies. © | 10. As many therefore as ſee not Falſhood, ſee the Truth. | - 12. If therefore we do ſoundetſtand, and” ſee, every one of theſe things as it is, then we ſec and underſtand true things. | | ’ 12. Bur if we ſee or underftafd any thing beſides, or otherwiſe, then | O char

194 _ Ther5*Book of chat which is, we ſhall neither underſtand, nor know the Truth. hee 13. {Tat.-Is’Truch therefore upon Earth, -O Father ? 14. Perm. Thou doſt nor miſs the mark, O Son. Truth indeed is no where at all upon Earth, O: Tat, for it eannot be generatcd, or made. I5. But concerning the Truth, ir wt be that ſome men, to whom God ul give i good ſceing Power, may undecfian dir. y 29% So Ning, “rowing Mole ad caſon, there is n true indee upon Earth. | Bur uneo the true Minde and WY all things are fancaſrcs or apPEearances, don OPINIONS. 18. Tat. Muſt we not thereforc call it Truth, ro underſtand and ſpeak the things that are * | r9.. Yerm. But there 1s nothing | true vpon Earth. eo. Tat. How then is this true, “Thar we do-not know any thing FRE o.; ow

, Hermes Triſmegiſtue. Þ5 how can - that. be done- hefe & 21..Yerm, © Son, Truth is the oft perteR Vertue 5 arid the & Goods fol not tfolibled by h &r, not cnc d’ by #’ Body, haked! clear; unc angeuble, vehcrable, [ud alrerable G 22, Bur the things thit ate here, ’ © Sonhzate rib, 6ep bIs 66f Good; corruptible , Yeble, changeable, eamniri abi, ad made of anotHher.: - hb ae 23, ‘The [8 fr E*t AFC not Ttue to chietif Iyes ; we te be true ? 24+ For ever -thing - a is a lie, not abiding ih ehir is ; but being changed’ it ſhews us always, other; and orhey appearinces: I 4 : 35. Wat. Is figt can reiſe,“O’Et-, tracts - 26, Pttmi. A; fa forth TIT Man: he i& not} rriey Sorts fof that which is £rue.; hath’of it felt | conteuſkahe 9 ---_ ahd” rewains 3 and. _abides,

196 Thea? Bookiof : abides according zo it ſelf , -ſuch as It -1S. | 2 | y 27. Burt man «conſiſts af many thiags, and doch, not-abidei of himſelf, bur is turned and changed, age after age.,. Jdea after. Idea, or form after form ; and this while he q yet in the Tabernacle… 28; And many have not: known their own 5X fg aſter a lirtle whilez and. many children. likewiſe have not known their own Parents. 29.” Isir. then; poſſible, :O Tat, that he who’is ſo, changed , -)is not to be known, ſhould be true 2: no, on the contrary , ;.’ be. is Falſhood , being. - ia - many Appearances | of changes. 309. Burt do ut underſtand the True/to be that, which abides; the ſame, and is Eternal , but man is not. cyer,. therefore nor True; $ow man-is a certain Appearance, ;396 4 oy doptarones: is the higheſt Lie gr F 3. “i Begile crernal. Bodies, Father,

him the Workman., Hime DHſneg FIR 199 Father, are they tot true though they. be changed s _ 32. Verm. Every thing thar is begotren, or made, and changed, is nor rue; bur being made by our Pr rogenitor., “they might, have, had true ___ | 3- Bur rheſe. aff have i thethvg -fomerhing that is ate, “Inf xe, gard of their changs: © “34. Fot nothing that “mb not in it elf, is True. 35: Tat, What fall one Father ,.. thar onely y the Sun; hi beſides rhe Nature * other = 25 | notthanged, bur abides | in’ir Truth 36. Herm, Tt.is Truth, and as fore is he ‘onely intiulted © “with rþ& Workmanſhip of the World, rulii and making Air rhings whor Tai bothihonor, and A ALT ruth’; Ar after the’ One, and Fitſt, Fac owl 37. Tat. What therefore doſtthou O 3 affirm

198 Then” Book of: affirm. $0. be the, fixſt.’ Truth, Q Faher $. Yerw, The Dye and @nely, O i, that is not. of Matter Hats © is not.in a Body, thax.is Faroe Cola, wi haut F UI: ON SNape Impuable nalterable , which folic por but Fallages. 2F T5 Far9Y ryption hat Si hold upon F» ings ON ION wig vidence of th, he Eur encampl ch, and will encompafs them,. 02; Far FiEAus qacruption, there can fi Gengrapyonconſilt… $31, For . .Corruprion followerh ey6ry Gy FRETS. © it may. again c generated. | “E Tye vr tighel gs thatarc gene| ty be generated f4 Py: af are FAORON, Icon, ; phi jay Fes ip f 5 Gengrd q tg \May..not, {tgnd. OW mh E. 44 AGbuowirde therefore. che

Hermes Triſmegiftus. 199 -Arft Workman by the Generation of rhings. = , by . 46+ Conſequently the things thar -are generated of Corruption, ate falſe, _ as bemyg ſometimes one thing, fomerimes*another:*’ For ic.is impoſſible, they ſhould be made the fame rhings n; andtharwhich is cotthe fame, Howis ittrue ? a 45. Therefore, ‘O Son; we muſt call theſe things fantaſies or appearankeÞt! in init 2G bo ti 2 6. And if we wlll give a manhis right name, we mult call him the appearance of Manhood; and-a Childe, the fantafic orapprearance of a Childeg an old man, the appearance of anold ran; a young man, the-appearance of a young man; and a man’ of ripe ape, the appearance of a man of ripe age. 9? 47-. For neither is a man, a manz nor achilde, a childe; nor a’young . man, a young man; noran old man, an old man. | O4 48. But

200 The 15* Book,e4: 8… Bur the. things that pyccx1 and that are, Fa Fa gs . 49. Theſe things underſtand thus, O Son, as theſc falle-Operations,; having their dependance. from. aboye, even of the Truthir {elf 50. Which being ſo, I do affirm, that Falſhood is the Work of Trurh. The end of the fifteenth Book: - i aA

201 ETTT DOO0S 2568 whbedeptorceers 4 The Fixer Book 46-0070” 3” oy Her erm es; Triimegiſus. ; That 10112 of ce to that are, Can periſh: wh: ig. Erm.. We muſt noW oy Y beak of Wa Soul: ® Body, O Son; atter Ds the Se oe X __ Is SN MA ; - operation that which his the Gd andd folves ir. * --- A

202 The1r6* Book of +» 3» Bur in noneof theſe .is Neazh, for it is a conception of a name, which is either an empty word, or cle it is -wrongly called Dearth, (#=70) by the raking away the firſt letter, inſtead of Immortal (<YirerG, ) 3+ For Death-i5 deſtruCtion , bur there is nothing in the whole World that is deſtroyed. | 4. For if the World be a ſecond God; and anImmortal living Wight, It is impoſſible that any part of an Immortal living Wight ſhonld die. 2 5. ‘Bur all -rhings thar’are’in the World, are members of the World, eſpecially Man, the reaſonable living Wi he. _ F For the fi:& of af EK Etetrat, and Urninade, and eWork- -myo Alt th NI Bx= 7 We The fees 4s the: | im, after hjs own In ; » holden tggether, and nouriſhe: 4nd immorttized ; and as from 1 its | own Father, ever living. 8. 50

| Her ”_ Triſmegiſtis. 203 - | $:. Sotbar as Immortal, tis ever living, and ever immorral. SE 9 For that which is ever living, giffcrs from thar.which is eternal, 130+, For the; Eternal was not begotten, or made by another z andif ir were begotten or made ,-: yet. ik was made by ir ſelf, nat by any oxher,: bur it is always made; 12+; Fox the Evernal, as its: Eternal; is the Univerſe, ’ i 12. For the Father himſelf, is Erernal of himſelf ; but the World was made by the Father, ‘cver living,” and 13. Andas much Mater as. there was laid up by hinm-the Bather madc all into 2 Body, and-{welling It, made it round like a Sphorez-endued it with Qualuy;heing ir ſelf unmonal, and having Ereingl Marcriality. 14. The Father being full of Jean, ſ4wved. Qualities; ‘in) the-Sphere , and ſhur them up, avin a Circle, delibers: ting to beaurifie; with exigjiualiry; | TaT! caat

204 “Ther Bookof that | which | ſhould ’ afterwards be made. AE A 15. Thencloathing the Univerſal Body with Immortality, leſt: the Martrer; if it would depart from this Compoſition, ſhould be diſſolyedinro its owndiſoxrder, 16. For when’the Matter was incorporeal, O Son, it’wis diſordered; and-it hath: here ‘the ſame confuſion daily revolved about” othet -lirtle things, endued with Qualities, in point of Augmentation , : and Dimunition, which-mericall Death, being indeed a diſorder happening ‘about earthly living wights.. . 17. For the Bodies of Heavenly things, have one, order, which they have received from the Farher’ atthe Beginning ,:and is by the inſtauration _ of cach’of them, kept indiffolveable.” 1; T2031 þ 18. ‘Burthc inſtauration of carthly Bodies’y/- is: their: confiſtence-, | and their -diflolation/ reſtores then into ; in 

| Hermes Triſmepiſtur. 205 bs indifſoluble, that is, Immortal. * 19: And ſorthere’is made a priva-;. tion of Senſe,” bur not a deſtruQion of ‘Bodies. | 20, Nowthe third living wight is Man , made after the Image of the World; and having by the Will of the Father, a Minde aboye other earthly wights. * * 21. And he hath nor onely a ſympathy with. the ſecond God, 9 alſo an underſtanding of the rſt, 22- For the ſecond God, he apprehends as a Body , bur the firſt, he underſtands as Incorporeal , and the Minde of the Good. 23. Tat. And doth not this living wight periſh 2 | 24. Yerm. Speak adviſedly, O Son, and learn whar God is, whar the World, what an Immorial Wight, and what a diflolveable One is. 25- And underſtand that the | World

206 The 16*Book, 62% World is of God, and in Go.d but. Man of the World , and” in: the World. 26. The Beginning, and End, and Conſliſtence of all, is God. | Theend of the ſixteenth. Book.

The Seventeenth Book O: F Hermes Triſmegiftus. To Aſclepius, tobe truly wiſe. =---I3 Ecauſe my Son Latinthy ©” abſence, would needs Wy learn the Nature of the a things that are : He ⇒ would not ſuffer me to give over (as coming very young t9 the knowledg of every individual) till I was forced to diſcourſe to him many. things at large, that his conremplation might from point to point, be more cafic and ſuccelsful, ls : 2, DU:

203 The16* Book of + Ag But to thee, I havc thoughs good to write in few words, chnfing Our the principal heads of the things | then ſpoken, and to interpret them more myſtically., becauſe thou haſt, | both more yeers, and more knowledg of Nature. 3- . All things that appear, were made, and are made. 4. Thoſe things that arz made , are not made by themſclves, bur by another. | 5. And there are many things made , bur eſpecially all things thar appear, and which are different, and not like. | | 6. If the things that be made and done, be made and done by another, there muſt be one thar muſt make,and dothem , and he unmade, and more ancient then the things that are made. 7. For I affirm the things that are made, to be made by another ; and ir ‘15 impoſſible, that of the things that are

”> ITY Not then HunſelFf, Hermes Trijmegiftw. 209 axe. made, any ſhould be mare ancient then all, but anely that which is ngt made. ‘s. He iS irons er, and One: ad ving any thipg. mare ancictie noe aug ny all Nt thinks indeed, as 9. For he bears ruſe , hoth Qver multitude, and greatn : and the d1verſlity of the hls S’t py are tnade, 4nd rhecontinuity of jhe IN of te © Operas. Moreover, the things raade.” as viſible.” Bur heis ay and for i cauſe, he. tnaketh *t 2h Y chat he, thay be viſible: and therefore he males them always… © rt. T tivs it is fir to dnderſtaif4 4 | pncerhan ging to ACEs and 4dindring ro thy felf h po ring 00 the be Faber | 13.5 Fol what i is ſweeter” rh& “Tn El narutaf Father 19; ho the tres hi falls ko “x eas oh Uh & ol | 4. ‘Or

210 *”The15* Book of x4. Oris it juſt ro aſcribe unto him alone, the Title and Appellation of God, orof the Maker, or of the Fa> ther, or all Three? That of God, becauſe of his Power; the Maker, becauſe of his Working and Operation; .and the Father, becaulc of his Goodneſs ? OR 15. For Power is different from the’things .thatare made, bur A or Operation, in’that all things are made. 16. Wherefore, letting go all much and vain talking , we muſt underftand theſerwo things, What which is-made , and him which is the Paker ; For there is nothing in the middle, berween theſe Two, nor is there any third. ; CO has) 17. Therefore. underſtanding All things,: remember theſe Two; and think char cheſe are All things, put- ’ ing nothing into doubr, neither of the ngs above, nor of the.things below; neither of things changeable,nor things that are4n darkneſs orlecret. 18, For. a -©A

Hermes Triſmegiſtux. 21 ” _ - 48, For All things, are but Two things, That which maketh, and thaf which is made ; andthe One of them cannot depart, or be divided from the other. SY | 19. For neither. is it poſſible, that the Maker ſhould De hog the thi | made, for: eicher of them is the ſelf» ſame thing; therefore cannot the One of them be ſeparated from the other, no morethena thing can be ſeparated from ir ſelf. o | , 20, For if he that makes be nothing elſe, bur that which makes alone , ſimple, tncompounded, it is of neceflity, that he makes the ſame thing to himſelf, ro whom it is the Generation of him that maketh to be alſo All that is made. . 21+, For that which ts generated or Made, muſt neceſſarily be generatcd or made by another, but. without the Maker that which is made, neither is made, nor is; for the one of them. withoutthe other , hath loſt hjs proP3.— oo TRSOl © +4 4

212 The 15 Bookof py per Natte by the privation of the “7. - 22. Soif theſe Tiro be confeſſed, Thar which mikerh, and that Which ’ is made,, then they are, One in, Union, this goig before, arid thar followihg, nd that which gorthb 0A is, Cod the Maker; and that which follows Is. harwhith Is mate, be: ir whit i Wa 24. And ler ative afc3ng! bes cauſc of the vorieey of things” * g-dupy made, or done , teſhould taftan aſperfio of baſer ; Or infamy , or ; for it ‘is tht anely”Gtory of Son: ro do, or inte Atl chitigs. 23. And this making, or Ade, is as it were rhe Body of God, ai to him that maketh, or doth, theres nothing evil, of ffthy to be impufted, dz tet ixochin eevil,“6 Mahb: 6. For thefe ar6 P:iffions CEE. low Neto Nonighs, Ruſtdoth Copper, ‘or as $50 Bir vent do rh: Bod Birr neither did the? Copper. {mith

ſmith ſhake the Ruſt, rtor-theMale® che Plth;nor Godithe Evilneti:!c5”’/ 228, Bur’the vicifficude ’ of -Genetario) Goth” make them, -as Jewert to; bloficin ur +; and for this canſcaditt make Change ro beas oneftrould tay; To Pi ation of ‘GonerarioHn. .* 5 £ oreovepts it lawful: forthe Ge Painter rowake borh Heaven, and the/Gods » Und the Famnh;:and the Sea; and Menfafid bruiro Beaſts, and intnimare Thitigs, and “Trees ; and’is: it wnpoſfible for Godreimake cheſt ge + ! Othegretvmayacſs, and ignorance of mer in OOIOTER contern’God f 10h 5 202 Formen that chink “I ſulfer chat which is no{tridiculousnf all; for peoRſfiog 10 bleſs;and prafe God, yetinnor af; cribing’#d -him che making or dot of All things 3 elicydgow him not. 0-444 V’s 31: And’ befilesrhivir widow him, they -are <xtreamly-‘i7pwns againſt tim , arffiburing” ants him P 3 Paſſions,

214 ‘Therj* Book of \ Paſtods, as: Pride; or Dberſight, or Weakneſs, or Ignorance, or. Envy; .:32:: For if he do, nor make, or do all chings, he is.either proud, or not able, or ignorant, or envious,.which is impious to affirm. Her dt” I 7 - 33- For God: hath onely one Paſfion; namely , -Goqd ; and he thariis good, t5.neither proud, nor impotent, nor the reſt, but God is Good-itiTelf. 34+. For Gwd-is all Power, -to do or make all. chings ;‘and- every thing that is made, is made by God, thar is, by the-Good, and that can make, or doallthings. _ 35. See then how he maketh all things, and how the things are done, that are done; and if thou wilt learn, thou mayeſt ſec: an Image. thereof, very beautiful, and like, 36. Look upon the Husbandman, how he caſterh Seeds into the Earth, here Whear, there Barly, . and elſecwhere ſome other Seeds. 37… Look upon the ſame-Man, 771K! | planting

Hermes Triſmegiſtus. 215 planting a Vine, or an Apple»Tree, or . a Fig-Tree, or ſome other Tree. - 38. Sodoth God in Heaven fowe Cnpare’ + in the Earth Change in the whole Life, and Motion. _ . 39- And theſethings are not many, but few,and eaſily numbred , for they arc all bur four, God and Generation, in which arc all things. The end of the 17% Book. FINTS.

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Connections

• hermeticism — the tradition
• hermes-trismegistus — the attributed author
• corpus-hermeticum — overview and analysis
• Corpus Hermeticum - Mead — the modern standard translation by G.R.S. Mead
• nous — divine Mind
• logos — the Word
• alchemy — Everard’s translation deeply influenced the English alchemical tradition
• Emerald Tablet of Hermes — the alchemical companion text