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In X V II. Books.
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Doctor Bverard.
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judicious Reader,
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His Book may

■ place
for antiquity }
from all thp
Books in
World , being written fome
hundreds of yeers before Mofes
his time, as I fhall endevor to
make good. The Original (as
A 2 far
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far as is known to us) is ^4-

blcky* and feveral Tranflations 1

thereof have been publiflied ,

as Greek, Lathe, French, Dutch,
&c. but never Englijb before.
| is pity the* Learned Tranflal
tor had not lived, and received
himfelf, the honor, and thanks
due to him- from Engliflmen •
for his good will to, and pains
for them, in tranflating a Book
infinite
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worth, out -of^1 .4

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into their Mother
i K
tongue,
Concerning the Author of
the Book it (elf, Four things
l {J
are confiderable, His
g Name, Learning, Countrey,
/C 1
and Time. 1. The name by
>c
which he was commonly filled,
is.
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is, 'Hermes Trifmegifius, i. e. Mer-

I
\curius ter Maximus, or. The
thrice greateit intelligencer
well might he be called Hermes,
for he was the fir ft Intelligencer
in the World (as we read of)
i\ >

that communicated Knowledg

to the fons of Men, by Writing,
or Engraving. He was called
Ter Maximus, for fome Reafons,
II which Ifihall afterwards • men-
Irion. 2. His Learning will ap- 3?

'pear,as by his Works; fo by the

| right underftanding the Reafon
of•N 1 his Name.
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2. For his 1 9

jCountrey, he was King or E-

\gypt. 4. For his Time, it is
not without much Controver-
fie, betwixt thofe that write of
this Divine, ancient Author,
2 what
 To the
what time he lived in. Some
I % he lived after Mofes his time,
giving this fiender Reafon for
Becaufe he was named
Ter Maximus - for being pre¬
‘ * Fran-
cifctii
ferred * (according to the Egyp¬
Fluflas. tian Gxx&oms) being chief Phi-

1
er . to be chief of the
\/*\ ; and from thence,
to be chief in Government, or
k.. '

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i YiV*& But if this be all their
i> I
> you muff excufe my
1 kl diffent from them, and that for
II this reafon , Becaufe according
■ | * Cebcr
f Paracel. to the moft learned of his * fol¬
| Hcnricus
i No Hitts lowers, he was called Ter Maxi¬
i in tbeo-
I {via Phi- mus 5 for having perfect, and ex-
lofophia ad: Knowledg of all things
c Herme.
tear contained in the World • Which
l£ tica Batts
Wnmo. things he divided into Three
) „ King- &
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Kingdoms (as he calls them,)

Mineral, Vegetable, Mnimal •
which Three,he did excel in the
right underftanding of* alfo,
becaufe he attained to, and
tranfmitted to Pofterity (al¬
though in an i£nigmatical,and
obfcure ftile) the Knowledg of
the Quinteffence of the whole
:cj
Univerfe (which Univerfe, as I
faid before, he divided into
Three Parts) otherwife called,
The great Elixir of the Philofo-
phers 5 which is the Receptacle
of ali’Celeftial and Terreftial
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Vermes; which Secret, many

ignorantly deny , many have
chargeably fought after, yet
few, but fome, yea, and EngUjh-
men * have happily found. n°m
f
A 4 v The&h
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 after the Flood. So that the
Realon berore alleaged to prove
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this Author to live after Mofesy
leems invalid • neither doth it
any way appear^ that he lived in i
Mofes his time , although it be i
the opinion of Tome, as of John t
h- a
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FmEiius who faith in his Chro-
That
one yeers before thcLaw was
given in Wilder
the Reafons that he,
im ^ are far weaker
then thole that I fhall give, for
his time.
for that, are thefe
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cReader
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Firft, Becaufe it is received a- i

jniongft the Ancients , that he
’was the firft thatinvented the
(Art of communicating Know-
!jledg to the World, by Writing . * i

.or Engraving. Now if fo, then

jin all probability he was before
mis. for it is laid of Motes ..
'that he was from * h;s ,Aa,
zu
in all the Egyptian 7‘
.earning, which could not well
Pve been without the help of
Literature,which we never read
f any before thatinvented by
Je,nms: Secondly, He is laid by 2.
i| lmfelf, to be the Ion of Su- *chap»
and by * others to be *°sm-
fcribe of Saturn. Now Saturn choni*~
ton.
Recording to Hiftorians, lived
|pt time of Sarug, Abrahams
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take in Suidcts his judgment ,

and io reft iausfied, that he didl I

1 not live onely before, but long

before Mojes: His words are
• snides tilde, - 'Credo Mercurium TdrifinM
«ilium (apientem %
*n f 'k TO nr "\'tk h 11 /111 I'lnYU.iflft

; j■ l araonem, -

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in this Book, though fo very
Old is
X*~> conta
OOUUUAivvi
more true
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knowledg of God and Nature,

.11 the
the Books in . the!
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then rn. ail . i

World betides, l except onebjj
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Sacred Writ : ;And they tba
/ flfiiii judiciouhy read it, an
rightly underhand'it, may we*
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Books. the Authors of whic
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■ tion. If God ever appeared in

, any man, he appeared in him,
I as ic appears by this Book.That
| a man who had not the benefit 9

l of his Anceftors knowledg, be¬

ing as I laid before , The firfl ■
inventer of the Art of .Commu-
| nicating Knowledg to Poflerity
] by writing, fhould be fo high
I a Divine, and fo deep a Philo-
fophepfeems to be a thing more
1 of God , then of Man • and
s therefore it was the opinion of
llorne > That he came from *Goro.
Heaven, not born upon Earth. tgg
|There is contained in this
Book , that true Philofbphy ,
without which; it is impofsible
iever to attain to the height and
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on. According to this Philo-
fophy,I call him a Philofopher,
that (hall learn and ftudy the
things that are, and how they
are ordered,', and governed, and
by Whorn,and for whatcaufe,or;
to what end • and he that doth
fo, will acknowledg thanks to,
and admire, the Omnipotent |
^Creator, Preiervcr,and Directer
of all thefe things. And he j
that (hall be thus truly thank- -
ful, may truly be called /Pious
and Religious; and he that is!
keligious , (hall more and
more, know where, and what 1
the Truth is: And learning that,
he (hall yet be more and more
Religious. i f
The glory and fplendor of
5 7 Philofophy
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To the Trader.
Philofophy, is an endevoring
to underftand the chief Good,
as the Fountain of ail Good;
Now how can we come neer
to, or finde out the Fountain,
but by making ufe of the
Streams as a conduct to it ?
The operations of Nature, are & 1-

Streams running from the

J
Fountain of Good , which is
God. I am not of the ignorant,
and foolifli opinion of thofe
that fay. The greateft Philofo-
j phers, are the greateft Atheifts •
as if to know the Works of
j God, and to underftand his go¬
ings forth in the Way of Na¬
ture, muft necefsitate a man to
^deny God. The* Scripture dif.
approves of this as a fottifh
tenent, :
 e Reader.
\ ■ *'•' ' •, * * HtJ

tenent experience contra¬

dicts it: For behold
. ! Here is ' ^ .» .

the greateir Pliiiofopher, and

therefore the greate ft Divine.
Read imderftandingly this
*" (-and for thy
help, thou mayeft make ufe of
* Han- that volumnious * Com menta¬
ls ry written upon it) then it will
Gdahar. more for jts Author, then
, by any man, at
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That God is not manifeft, and jet
mft manifefl. g2
That in God alone isgood. 72
The fecret Sermon in the xMotmt’of
Regeneration, and the Profefion
of Silence. gQ
That the greateft evil in Many is the
not knowing of God, pp
I A Vniveitfal Sermon to Afclepius.
I , 103
• The (Jtiinde to Hermes. ny
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O my Son, write this

firft Book, both for
Humanity fake, and for
Piety towards God.
2. For there can be
no Religion more true
or juft, then to know the things that
are 5 and to acknowledg thanks for all
things, to him that made them,which
thing I (hall not ceafe continually to
jdo.
1 $. What then (hould a man do, O
Father, to lead his life well *, fccijig
there is nothing here true i
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4. Be Pious and Religious, O my
Son y for he that doth fa, is the beft
andhigheft Philofopher*, and with¬
out Philofophy, it isimpoflible ever
to attain to the height and exa&nefs
of Piety or Religion.
- 5. But he that fhall learn and ftudy
the things that are, and how they are
ordered and governed, and by whom,
and for what caufe, or to what end,
will acknowledg thanks to the IHlcjfe*
mart, as to a good .father, an excellent
$ntfe, and a faithful fefetnajD, and he
that gives thanks fhall be Pious of
Religious, and he that is Religious
fhall know both where the truth is,
and- what it is, and learning that, he
will be yet more and more Religious.
6. For never, O Son, fhall, or can
that Soul, which while it is in the
Body lightens and lifts up it felf to
know and comprehend that which is;
Good and True,flide back to the con¬
trary : Bor it is infinitely enamored
thereof, and forgetteth all Evils *, and
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1 into a cerfatnmopff nature, unfpeakably j

troubled, which yielded a fmoke as

from fire; and from whence proceed-
® ed a voyce unutterable, and very
mournful, but inarticulate, infomuch
that it feemed to have come from the
, LiSht*
f 6* Then from that Light,a certain
l;olg W.ojd tornco it felf unto $afore,
and out-flew the pure and unmixed
Fire from the moyft Nature upward
I on high 5 it was exceeding itgijf, and
II fljarp, andopcratite withal. And the
| Bfr which was alfo light, followed
the &>p?rtf and mounted up to iffrr,
ffrom the Earth and the Water) info-
much that it feemed to hang and de¬
pend upon it.
7. And the Earth, and the Water,
flayed by thcmfclves fo mingled to-
I gether, that the Earth could not be
feen for the Water $ but they were
moved, becaufe of the Spiritual ceioja
that was carried upou them.
S. Then faid poemancer unto me,
• Dofl
 16 The fecond Book of
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Doft thou underhand this t&tiien, and

what it meaneth? I fliall know,faid I:
Then faid he , % am tfj.it Lfgftf, tfje
SSshnut, tbp<2?o&, totjo am before ttjit mopff
Mature tfjat appeareo out of oatknefs; ana
tfjat bright ano figfjful Ho;9 from tfje
j. q^tnoc, is tfte &on of <£co. !
9. How is that quoth I < Thus,
/ reply ed he,Underhand it: SCfjat tuljidj
in ffjic f&t(j ano fjeatetb, tbe ®^ojp of tty
3to^t>, ano tty sptnoe, tty Jfatfjer, (ftoo,
■ i

Differ not one from ettjer; ano tty unien

a *
of tt)Cfe,ts &tfc.
SCrifmcg. I thank thee, pimano*
/
But firft conceive well the Light in thy
minde* and know it. , -i l
10. When he had thufc faid, for a
long time we looked ftedfaftly one
upon the other, infbmuch,that 1 trem*
bled at his SSOea or 5?ojm. _
11. But when he nodded to me, I
beheld in my minde the Light that is
in innumerable, and the truly indeh-
nite ojnament or tuojtt) *, and that the
fire is comprehended or contained in
 ©r by a moft great Power, and con-
ftrained to keep its ftation.
12. Thefe things, I underftood,
feeing the word of f t'manoer; and
when I was mightily amazed, he faid
again unto me, Haft thou feenm thy
minde that Archetypal Form, which
was before the interminated and infi¬
nite Beginning { Thus ^rnianorr to -
me: But whence quoth I, or where¬
of *are the Elements of Nature
made ' pmtanoer. Of the Will and
Counfel of God ; which taking the
Word, and beholding the beautiful
World (in the Archetype thereof )
imitated it, and fo made this World,
by the principles and vital Seeds or
Soul-like productions of it felf.
1 3- For the spinoe being God,
spate and female, fttfe and lu'g&f,
brought forth by his wo;p ♦ another
$Ptn&e, the Mloakman: Which being
Gas of the and the falhi-
oned and formed feven other Ctotiem*
which in their Circles contain
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18 Tie fecond Book ot
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the &cnfibic , whofe Govern¬

ment or Difpofition is called J?atc °r
HDctfinp.
14. ^traightfoaE leaped out, or ex¬
alted it felf from the downward bom
Elements of God >■ -tbeOTojDof (©cp,
into the clean and pure Workmanihip
of Nature > and was united to the
Mojfeman, Spinbe, for it was Ccnfub*
ffanftal • and fo the downward bom
Elements of Nature were left with¬
out Reafon, that they might be the
onelyMatter. ; ’IU
15. But the OTo&man, Spinue, to¬
gether with the containing the
Circles and Whirling them about,
turned round as a Wheel his own
Workmanfhips; and fuffered them to
1

be turned from an indefinite Begin-

ing, to an undeterminable End 5 for
they always begin where they end.
16. And the Circulation or running
round of thefe, as the Minde willcth,
out of the lower or downward-bom
Elements brought forth unreafona e
 Hermes Trifmegijh
\ or bruitifh Creatures, for they had no
I reafon, the Air flying things, ahdthe
I Water luch as fwim. -;
. 17. And the Earth and the Water
i were feparated, either from other, as
’ the ^ttiDe would - and the Earth
brought forth from her felf, fuch
Living Creatures as fhe had,four foot¬
ed and creeping Beafts, wilde and
tame.
I , Ig- But the jfaf&et of all things,
't the spinDe being Me and &ig&t
I brought forth span, like unto himfelf*
whom he loved as his proper Birt& 5
1 for he was all beauteous, having the
J Bimage of his jfahjer.
J t 19. For indeed God was exceed-
j ingly enamored of his own Form or
1 Shape, and delivered unto it all his
J0wn Workmanfhips : But he feeing
; and undemanding the Creation of the
j Workman in the whole, would needs
alio himfelf fall to foojk, and fo was
I leparated from the Father, being in
the Iphere pf Generation orOperation.
Ci 20, Having
zo The fecond Book of
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20; Having all Power,he confider- ,

ed the Operations or Workmanfhips
of the ^etoen 5 but they loved him,
and every one made him partaker of j
his own Order. 5 < I
a 1. And he learning diligently,
and underftanding their Effence, and
partaking their Nature, refolved to -■
oieree and break through the Ctttutn* |
fmnce ofthe Circles , and to under-
Hand the Power of him that fits upon 1
the Fire. 1
22. And having already all power 1
of mortal things, of the Living, and I
of the unreafonable Creatures of the |
World, Hooped down and peeped I
through the i^attnoni?, and breaking 1
through the ftrength of the Circles, 1
fo fhewed and made manifeft the I
downward-born Nature , the faitl
and beautiful Shape or Form orj
God. .
23. Which when he faw, having
in it feif the unfatiabie Beauty, and
ail the Operation of the ^en
, , fcetno;0i
 Hermes TriJmegiJh zi
ftetnojg , and the Form or Shape of
God, he fmtleD for love, as if he had
feen the Shape or Likenefs in the Wa¬
ter, pr the madow upon the Earth of
the faireft Humane form. ' * Vs

24. And feeing in the Water a

ihape, a fhape like unto himfelf, in
himfelf he loved it, and would coha-
bit with it 5 and immediately upon
the refolution, enfued the Operation,
and brought forth the unrcafpnable
Image O or Shape.
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25. Nature prefently laying hold
of what it fo much loved, did wholly
wrap her felf about it, and they were
mingled, for they loved one an-
other. ‘ - s r -y'
r. •. Jt j f .

26. And for this caufey^an, above

all things that live upon garth, is
double 5 mortal, becaufe of his Body3
and immoral, becaufe of the fubftan-
tial Man : For being immortal, and
having power of all things,- he yet
fuffers mortal things ,• and fuch as are
fubjeft to Fate or Deftiny.
C $ 27. And
9
 The fecond Book of
27. And therefore being above
all ^armotrp, he is made and become a
fervant to ^arnionp. And being
mapfooDtCe, or Male and Female, and
watchful, he is governed by, and fub-
je&ed to a Father, that is both Male
and Female, and watchful.
. 28. After thefe things, I faid,
act ms spinoe, ano 31 am in lots Until
Iteafon.
%g. Then faid piman&er, This is
the that to this day is hidden,
5 for Nature being
mingled. witn Man, brought forth a
Wonder moft wonderful * for he
having the Nature of the barmens of
the £>st>cn, from him whom I told
thee, the Fire and the Spirit, Mature
continued not, but forthwith brought
forth {even Men all $palea and
males»,and fublime,oron high, accord¬
ing to the Natures of the Seven Go¬
vernors.
30. And after thefe things, 0>
pomanoer, quoth I, I am now come
into
 Hermes Trifmegijh
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into a great defire, and longing to
hear, do not digrefs, or run out.
31. But he faid, Keep filence, Tor
I have not yet finilhed the firft
fpeech.
32. %xifm. Behold, lamfilent.
33. ptman. The Generation there¬
fore of thefe ^etjen was after this
maner, T he #ic being feminine, and
the Water defirous of Copulation,
took from the jflte its ripenefs, and
from the (ether Spirit 5 and fo $afure
produced bodies after the Species and
Shape of men. '
34. And Man was made of Htfe
and Htgljt into &oul and $$)inQe, of Jttte
the &oul, of night the spiitue.
35. And fo all the Members of the
gjsnfible Wo?lo, continued unto the
period of the end, bearing rule, and
generating.
3 6. Hear now the reft of that
fpeech, thou fo much deftreft to
hear,
- 37. When that perioD was fulfilled,
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the bond of all things was loofed and

untied by the Will of God*, for all
I living Creatures being l^ermripbJODifhal,
or Q£ale and female, were loofed and
untied together with Man *. and fo
the Males were apart by thetnfelves,
and the Females like wife.
4 '

38. And ftraight-ways God /aid

to the Holy Word, Cucroafe in m>
creaffng, ana multipip in multtiuDeaU pou
mp Creatures ana me:femanahps. to
let bint that is ensues teitb spiiwe, tote
’ bimfdf fo lie immortal* anb that the caufe
of seat!) is t&e lobe of f pc boar, ano let Ijtm
learn ah things that are. |
29. When he had thus faid,p,jo>
ijisenre bp jfafe ans l^armonp, made the
mixtures, and eftablifhed the Genera¬
tions, and all things were multiplied
according to their kinde ^ and he that d
knew himfelf, came at length to the
$fcuperftantial of every way fubttantial
good.
40. But he that through the
Error of Love, loved the HBoop, abid-
• eth
Kj^.y, 4 rf •* \ (

cth wandering, in darknefs, fenfible,

fufFering the things of death.
41. SCrtfm. But. why do they that
jare ignorant, fin fo much, that they
ifliould therefore be deprived of im-
jmortality ?
42. pimano. Thou feemeft not to
have underftood what thou had
heard. '
ij 43. Crtfm. P e rad venture I fees n fo
1 to thee *, but I both underftand and
ijremember them.
| 44. ptmans. I am glad, for thy
1 fake, if thou underftoodeft them.
I 45. Sctifm. Tell me why are they
: worthy of death , that are in
(death? ^ y
i.; 46. ptmanfc. Becaufe there goeth
lafad and dsfmal darknefs before its
[ body; of which darknefs is the moyft
INature 5 of which moyft Nature,
i the Body confifteth in the fenfible
World, from whence death is de¬
prived : Haft thou underftood this
aright?
I rfe- . , 47.
 47* SCriftH* But why, or how,
doth he that underftands himfelf, g<3
or pafs into God i J
48. pirn. That which the Word
of God faid, fay I: Becaufe the Fa-|
ther of all things confifts of Life and
Light, whereof Man is made. , M
4p. sCrtfrn. Thou fayeft very wellJ
; 50. pim. God and the Father isl
Light and Life , of which Man isj
made. If therefore thou learn and!
beleeve thy felr to be of the Life and!
Light, thou (halt again pafs into!
Life. I
51. Crtfm. But yet tell me more,
G my Minde, how I fhall go into
Life. ]
52. pint* God faith. Let the Man
endued with a Minde, mark, confider,
and know himfelf well. j
53. SCrifm. Have not all men a
minde i j
54. ptm. Take heed what thou
fayeft, for I the Minde come unto
men that are holy and good, pure and
‘m merciful
 0

merciful, and that live pioufly and re-

licrioufly ? and my prefenbe is a help
junto them. And forthwith they know
all things, and lovingly they fuppli-
cate and propitiate the Father 5 and
blefling him, they give him thanks,
and fing hyms unto him, being or¬
dered and directed by filial AffeCtion,
f and natural Love: And before they
1 give up their Bodies to the death of
’■them, they hate their Senfes5 know*
^ng their Works and Operations.,
|r 55. Rather I that am the Mindeit
felf, will not fuffer the Operations or
“ Works, which happen or belong to
4the body, to be finiihed and brought
| to perfection in them 5 but being the
^ojtcr and SDcu^feeeper, Iwillfhutup
t the entrances of Evil, and ct^t off
| thoughtful defires of filthy works.
I 5 6. But to the fooli{h5and evil,and
| wicked, and eriviou$, and covetous,
1 and murderous, and profane, lam far
offgiving place to the revenging SDe*
f mon, which applying unto him the
I ' fharpnefs
r
 fharpnefs of fire, tormenteth fuch a
man fenfible, and armeth him the
more to all wickednefs, \that he may
obtain the greater punifhment. J
57. And fuch a one never ceafeth,
having unfulfillable defires,and unfati-
able concupifcences, and always
fighting in darknefs; for theSDmon
afflids and tormenteth him continual¬
ly, and increafeth the fire upon him
more and more. , ? >T
58. SCrifm. Thou haft, O Minde,
mo ft excellently taught me all things,
\
as I defired * but tell me moreover,
after the return is made, what
then i
$9. p imams. Firft of all, in the re-
folution of the material Body, the
Body it felf is given up to alteration,]
and the form which it had, becometh
invifible 5 and the idle maners are per-!
mitted, and left to the SDemon, and
the Senfes of the Body return into i
their Fountains, being parts, and again
made up into Operations. 1
/■-. , 6q. And!
i 60. And Anger and Concupifccnce
■go into the bruitilh, or unreasonable
.Nature •, and the reft ftriveth upward
I '

by Harmony.
61. And to the firft zone itgivcth
' .had of increafing and

I 62. To the fccond, the machina¬

tion or plotting of evils , and one
effectual deceipt or craft.
I S3. To the third, the idle deceipt
, of Concupifcence.
* 64. To the fourth, the aefire of
‘ Rule, and unfatiable Ambition.
65. To the fifth, prophane Bold-
jnefs, and the headlong raftmefs of
Confidence.
I 66. To the fixth,Evil and ineffe&u-
[ aloccafions of Riches.
] 67. And to the feventh ^one, tub-
tfle Falfhood, alwayes lying in
!! wait.
f 68. And then being made naked
\ of all the Operations of Jarmans,
lit cOmeth to the eighth Nature,
havm
 having its proper power, and fingefi
praifes to the Father with th^e things
that are, and all they that are prefent
re Joyce, and congratulate the coming
of it 5 and being made like to them*
with whom it converfeth, it heareth
alfo the Powers that are above the
eighth Nature, finging praife to God
*n a certain Voyce that is peculiar to
them.
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69. And then in order they return

unto the Father, and themfelves de-1
liver themfelves to the powers, and!
becoming powers, they are in God. 1
70. This is the Good,and to them!
that know to be deified. I
71. Furthermore, why fayeftl
thou^ What refteth, but that under-1
(landing all men,thou become a guideJ
and way-leader to them that are wor-|
thy 5 that the kinde of l£umanih? or*
^ankinoe, may be faved by God ? • 1
72. WhenptmanDst had thus faidl
unto me, he was mingled among thcl
Powers. I
( • 73. But]
 Hermes 1 rijmegijtus. 31
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[ 73. But I giving thanks, and blef-

Ing the Father of all things, rofe up,
xing enabled by him, and taught the
Nature, of the Nature of the whole,
ind having feen the greatell: fight or
pc<5tacle.
1 74. Arid I began to Preach unto
men, the beauty and fairnefs of Piety
und Knowledg.
75. j2D pepeople^en, bojn atiD mane of
ie (Earth,tobhb fjatie gttjen sour felbes ober
;jo D?ankennefs,anD fl®p,ano to the ignorance
if ©oo, be fober, ano ceafe sour forfeit *
obereto pou are nUutto, ano tnbtteo bp
jtfuttifo, anD unreafonable Ueep*
; 76. And they that heard me,comci
yillingly, and with one accord; and
|hen I faid further.
j 77. MbS^ £) Spen of tl>e iDff’fpjtng of
be earth > tabs babe sou oeltbereD sous
|kbes obernnf 0 Death, bahingpotoer to par#
ake of imwtaKfp i Kepent ano change
jour mtnbea, sou that bake together foalkefc
ti Cot t ano babe been Darknco in tgnoz#
luce* V ' 0: v • st
78.jBPepart *
 78. jSDepart from that Dark light, be pan
takers of tminortalifp, ano leafcs lj, fo^fai
corruption.
79. And fome of them that hear*) me.
mocking and fcorning, went away
and delivered themfelves up to tin
way of death, s
80. But others calling therafelve;
down before my feet, befought me,
that they might be taught 5 but
caufing them to rife up,became a guidi
©f mankinde, teaching them therea-
Tons how, and by what means the;
maybefaved. Andlfowed inth
the words of Wifdom, and nouriihei
them with Hmbrofian water of immcji
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Si. And when it was Evening

and the Brightnefs of the fame began
wholly to go down, I commanded
them to go down, I commanded them
to give thanks to God 5 and when
they had finished their thankfgiving,
every one returned to his own lodg¬
ing. ' ■ ;1
82. But
 Hermes nlmentus
!
\ 82. But I wrote in my felf, the
j bounty and beneficence of pimanOer *
J and being filled with what I moft de-
| fired, I was exceeding glad.
83. For the deep of the Body was
the fober watchfulnefs of theminde =
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and the {hutting of my eyes the true
fight, and my filence great with
childe, and full of good 5 and the
pronouncing of my words, theblof-
foms and fruits of good things.
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84. And thus came to pafs or hap-

\ \

!1 pened unto me, which I received from ’ /

my minde,that is,ptmanOer, the Lord

■I of the Word •, whereby I became in¬
i' Ipired by God, with the Truth.
85. For which caufe, with my
if Soul, and whole fircngth , I give ;V * ~ .f

dpraifc and blefiing unto God the

Facher.'
86
fjmgg.
, 10 <25oO l&t jfatljer of all
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. 87. 'Ijelp ts<H5oD,' fobofe tutli 10 performs

ana accomplifljeO bg bis ofon potoero*
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eftafalilbe& all thtnpr. j
90. %eig art tfjcu, cf iDbam all Mature is
tfce Image. ^ff
pi. l£o!p art tijea, febom Mature baf()
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The Third Book

CALLED
ermon.

HE glory of all things,

God, and that which is
Divine, and the Divine
Mature, the beginning of
things that are
2. God, and the Minde,
tore, and Matter, and Operation, or
Working , and Neceffity , and the
End, and Renovation.
g. For there were in the Cfoac*, an
infinite darknefs m the Abyfs orbot-
tomiefs Depth, and Water, and a
febrile Spirit intelligible in Power 5
and there went out the Holy Light,
and the Elements were 'coagulated
- fr<*m
 I , ' •, ,

From the Sand out of the moyft Sub-

ftance. v
4. And all the Gods diftinguiftxd
the Nature full of Seeds.
5. And when all things were in-
terminated and unmade up, the light
things were divided on high. And the
heavy things were founded upon the
moyft Sand, all things being Termi¬
nated or Divided by Fire *, and being
1 fuftained or hung up by the Spirit,
they were fo carried, and the
{
I was feen in &et>en Ctrcle0.
i if
.
6 And the Gods were feen in /

i their SlDeasof the Stars, with all their

m
Signes, and the Stars were numbred
i with the Gods in them. And the
Sphere was all lined with Ayr, carri¬ /
ed about in a circular motion by the
Spirit of God.
7. And every God by his internal
3 - power, did that which was command¬
ed him 5 ? and there were made four
footed things, and creeping things,
and fuch as live in the Water,and fuch \

D 3 as
V
 as flie, and every fruitful Seed, and
Grafs, and the Flowers of all Greens,
all which had fowed in themfelves
the Seeds of .Regeneration.
8. As alfo the Generations of men,
to the knowledg of the Divine
Works, and a lively or working Tefti*
mony of Nature, and a multitude of
men, and the Dominion of all things
under Heaven ? and the knowledg of
good things, and to be increafed in
increafing, and multiplied in multi¬
tude. ' ; I r/SM
p. And every Soul in Fleih,by the
wonderful working of the Gods in
the Circles, to the beholding of Hea¬
ven, the Gods, Divine Works, and
the Operations of Nature 5 and for
Signes of good things , and the
knowledg of the Divine Power, and
to findeout every cunning workman- !
fhip of good things.
10. So it beginnetb to live in them,
and to be wife according to the Ope- -j
ration of the courfe of the circular
Gods t
 megtjm.
I Gods} and to be refolved into that
i which (hall be great Monuments, and
| Remembrances oftheeunning Works
j done upon Earth, leaving them to be
| read by the darknefs of times.
I n. $nd ;every Generation of
j living Fleih, ofJFruit, Seed, and all
Handicrafts, though they be loft,muft
I of neceflity be renewed by thereno-
1 vation of the Gods, and of the N a-
I ture of a Circle, moving in number 5
i for it is a Divine thing, that every
worldly temperatqre mould be re-
| mewed by nature 5 for in that which
is Divine, is

| The end of the Fragments i'

I of the third Book,

very unperfedl.

1 ■

f v
 s Speech , O
3Tclep««0, I dedicated
to thee , this days it
is fit to dedicate to
SCat, becaufe it an Epi¬
tome of thofe general
Speeches that were fpoken to him.
2. God therefore, and the Father,
and the Good, O have the fame
Nature, or rather-alfothefame A6t
and Operation. ‘ ' |
3. For there is one name orappel-
lation of Nature and Increafc, which
eoncerneth things’changeable, and
another about,things unchangeable,
• . and
 •ijmegmm.\ 4*
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and about things unmoveable, that is

to fay, Things Divine and Humane 5
every one of which, himfelf will have
fo to be •, but action or operation's of
another thing, or el few here, as we
have taught in other things, Divine
and Humane, which muft here alfo be

4. jfoifjts jDpcraften oj att,ts Ijis

anomie Cflfence, fo toil} all ffjtngs fo be.
I ' .
5* For what, is God, and the Fa- '

ia. ther, and the Good, but the Being ot

all things that yet are not, and die
evidence it felf, of thofe things that
arc?
6. This is God, this is the Father,
this is the Good, whereunto no other
• • •• j , •• ■

v thing is prelent or approacheth.

i 7For the tsagojio, and thel»uit,
which is alfo a jrat&ef by J^arftctpaftor,
is not for all that equally the caufe of
Good, and of Life, to living Crea¬
tures : And if this be fo, he is alto¬
gether conftrained by the Will of the
Good, without which, it is not pofiL
T- “ •. x ble
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 ble, either to be, or to be begotten or
made.
8. But the Father is the caufeof
his Children, who hath % will both to j
fowe and nourilh that which is good
by the &un. ■
. v 9. For Good is always a dive or
bufie in making 5 and this cannot be
in any other, but in him that taketh
nothing, and yet willeth all things to
be 5 for I will not fay, O Cat, making
them *, for he that maketh,is defedive
in much time, in which fometimes he
maketh not, as alfo of quantity and
quality 5 for fometimes he maketh
thofe things that have quantity and
quality, and fometimes the con¬
trary. - \ 1 • ' •'?
10. But God is the Father, and
the Good, in being all things . for he

v
(be known r This'is the Good, O
ECaf. 1
12. ffiaf. Thou haft filled us, 0
3?at’(jer, with a fight, both good and
{fair, and the eye of my minde- is al-
moft become more holy by the fight
orfpe&acle.
I 13. SErifm. 3 foonDer nof at it, for
tijthe flight of <25cod is not like the Beam of
the £>tm,which being of a fiery finning
Jarightnefs, maketh the eye blinde by
ifiis exceflive Light, that gazeth upon
it y rather the contrary,for it cnlight-
meth, and fo much increafeth the
f:
;’ight of the eye, as any man is able to
Receive the influence of this intelligi-
A .

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{ 14. For it is more fwift and fharp

;opierce, and innocent or harmlefs
Withal, and full of immortality 5 and
x v.
;hey that are capable, and can draw
W ftore of this fpe&acle, and fight,
’fo many times fall afleepfrom the
£#v
ody, into this moll fair and beaute- SI.

fius Vifion-, which thing Cdms and

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unto. ;
15. SCaf. I would we a!fo, 0 Fa
ther, could do fo.
16. SCrtfaf* I would w£ could,
Son 5 but for the prefent we are lefs
intent to the Yifion , and cannot y<
open the eyes of our mindes to behol
the incorruptible, and incompreheri-
ftble Beauty of that Good : But then
v 'V
(hall we fecit, when we have nothing
at all to fay of it. :y
17. For the knowledg of it, is a
Divine Silence, and the reft of all the
Senfes: For neither can he that un
derftandsthat, underftand anything
elfe, nor he that fees that, feeany
thing elfe, nor hear any other thing,
nor in fum, move the Body.
18. For ftiining ftedfaftly upon
and round about the whole Minde, i
enlighteneth all the Soul; and loofing
it from the Bodily Senfes and Moti¬
ons, it drawcth it from the Body, an
ehangeth it wholly into the Effenc
of God. 15?, jfty
♦
 ifmegijh
19. ^0? if fe pofstWe ft? t|e ^>sul, £D
g>oit) fo be Sctfieo Suljile vtt it loogetbin ttys
H5oop of span, if tf contemplate tjje beawtp
)f tbe d5o3J). , N , .
20. SCaf. How doft thou mean dei¬

fying, Father l ,
' 21. Crtfm. There are differences,
O Son, of every Soul. > .
2%. SDat. But how doft thou again

divide the changes f

E 23. SCrifm. Haft thou not heard in
the general Speeches, that from pne
Soul of the univerfe, are all thofe
Souls , which in all the world are
tofled up and down, as it were, and
feverally divided f Of thefe Souls
there are1 many changes , fome into a
more fortunate eftate, and fome quite
contrary $ for they which are of creep¬
ing things, are changed into thofe qt
watery things $ and thole of things
living in the water, to thofe of things
living upon the Land 5 and Airy ones
are changed into men, and humane
Souls, that lay hold of ^mortality*
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are changed into t>em&n$.

24. And fo they go on into the
Sphere or Region of the fixed Gods;
for there are two quiers or companies
of Gods, one of them that wander,
and another of them that are fixed:
And this is the moft perfect glory of
f
the
■./
Soul. ^ r - ■ , / '

25. But the Soul entring into the

Body of a Man, if it continue evil,
fhall neither tafte of immortality, nor
is partaker of the good.
26. But being drawn back the
fame way, it returneth into creeping
things. And this is the condemnation
, v , ,
of an evil Soul.
27. Andthewickednefs of a Soul,
f I is ignorance * for the Soul that knows
nothing of the things that are, neither
the Nature of them, nor that which
is good, but is blinded, rufheth and
dalheth againft the bodily Paflions*
and unhappy, as it is, not knowing it
felf, it ferveth ftrange Bodies, and
ones* carrying the Body as a
burthen.
burthen, and not ruling, but ruled.
And this is the mifehief of the Soul.
28. On the contrary, the vertueof
the Soul is Knowledg 5 for he that
knows, is both good and religious-amd
already Divine.
29. -2Cat. But who is fuch a Oftes
O Father i
30. 2Drifm. He that neither fpealcSg,
nor hears many things *, for hc,0 So%
that heareth two fpeeches or hear¬
ings, fighteth in the fliadow.
/
I 3 u For God, and the Father
Good, is neither fpoken nor heard
[ 32. This being fo in all things
are, are the Centra, becaufe they can¬
not be without them.
33* Knowledg differs much
rom Senfe ^ for Senfe isofrhinj
hat furmountit, but Knowledg is rl
lend of Senfe.
34. Knowledg is the gift of God5
'or ail Knowledg is unbodily, Uanr
ufeth the Minde as an Inftrument, as
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3$. Therefore both ini

and mat dial things, go both of them
into bodies*, for, of eontrapofition,
'is, feitiu^ oti3 againfi another, and
contrarictv’TaUtl)tngs muft confiff. And it
"•> *>
is impomble it lhould be otherwife* ]
36. %iit. Who therefore is this
material God ?
37. SDi ifjs:. The fair and beautiful
World, and yet it is not good • for it
is material, and eaiil.y paffible, nay, it
is the fil'd of all piilible things $ and
thefecondof the things that are, and
needy or wanting, fomewhat elfe.
And it was once made, and is always,
and is ever in generation, and made,,
and continually makes, or generates
things that have quantity and qua-
rm ' :

3$. For it is moveable, and every

material motion is generation 5 but the
Intel le&ual (lability moves the mate*
rial mo- ion after this maner. >|
39. Becaufe the World is a Sphere,
is, a head, and above thehead
* there
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tjiere is nothing material, as beneath

the feet there is nothing intellectual.
40. The whole univerfe is materi- ,
al: The Minde is the head, and it is
moved fpherically, that is like a-
head . • . • • i -

41. Whatloevcr therefore is joyn-

ed or united to the Membrane or
Film of this head, wherein the Soul
* ' ^ , 4 •

is, is immortal, and as in the Soul of

a made Body, hath its Soul full of the
Body* but thofe that are further
from that Membrane, have the Body *
full of Soul.
I 42. The whole is a living wight,
and therefore confifteth of material,
and intellectual,
43. And the World is the firft,
and Man the fecond living Wight after
tfie World , but th$ firft of things
hat arc mortal 5 and therefore hath

pther have;
lot onely not good,
tong mortal ■■ ■I

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44- Per
k
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: 44 ror the World is not good, as

it m moveable , nor evil, as it isim.
•** »** *ft •*-'

45, But teart is evil, both as he is

nioveabM, afokJ as he is mortal.
... 4f But the Soul of Man is ear-
ili this mazier , ■ jB&fjc Spinog'ts;in

■I47.. T he spirit being diffufed, anu

gomg through the'veih^ -and arteries,
and bided, both ' moveth the living
Create-/ and' after "ld certain maner
> iki w,::th it.
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f j? f " l y‘

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1»-»
%-M *. t>. Sw & fv., fom-e alfo have
cfiouglit the Soul to beBlood, beinj
deceived in Nature, not knowing that
5 fete Spirit twill return into the
Soul,and then the- blood i&.congealed,
the veins ’add aitenes^emptied, an^
ne
f . ^ a ii. 1-*n - ** A, ' * ‘ a •

-^ Kw.-
;' And tol!

one be-
the" begirti
ebat is one and alone.
"i' 50,
 V-,

mm m. 51
, t w - ’ . ♦, ' - - v r •;* r, r,..., *- . ■ ' v •; - r

50. Arid the beginning is moved,

at it may again be a beginning $ but
is one,
is not :j*. /•

51. There are lUuvtu».,

ai«) tije<©a)D, tfte Mcjlo
ho span : God hath the World, and * \ 7

he World hath Man 5 and the

^orld is the Son of God, and Man
|pS*> ‘ v- ' •;i - *0"

s it were the OffTpring of the

I, 52. For God is not ignorant of

riari, but knows him perfectly, and
/ill be known by him. This*onely
^healthful to man *, the Knowledg
’ *: If his is the return of 4DM*
Iff :*1
$5 this onely the Soul is made
d, and not fometimes good, and
■■ » ~ .. 5. • m 4 /■»

metimes evil , but or n

■, ... ...y ■ • . ' . ■ ■' •
ood.
tat What meancft thou, 0
hther i
U4. JCrifni- Confide r, O Son, the
bulpf a^Childe, when as yet it hath,
reived no difiblution of its Body
' £ 2
 The fourth Book of» *V \

which is hoc yec grown, but is very

fmalh how then if it look upon it
felf, it fees it felf beautiful, as not ha¬
ving been yet fpotted with the Paffi-
ons of the Body, but as it were de*
pending yet upon the Soul of the
World.' •. / ,r. g ■ r ■ * • A . \

55- But when the Body is grown

and^difttadeth, the Soul it ingenders
Forget fulnefs,' and partakes no more
of the fair, attB the ham, and Forget-
fulsiefsis Evilnels. . ' ' •
56: The like alfo happeneth to
thetn jhat. go out of the Body : Foi
whoi the Soul runs back into it felf,
the Spirit is comraded into the blood,
and the Soul into the Spirit 5. but the
Minde being made pure,, and free
from tfiefe doathings $ and being Di¬
vine By Nature, taking a fiery Body,
sahgeth abroad in every place, lcaviflg
the-Soul to judgment, and to the
gunifhmcnt It hath deferved. \.“
■ 57, %^L Why doft thou fay ft
0 Ta$krfFfias the Minde is feparatei
from
* i-j "*
 rijmegijtw, 53
K, ; . Y '
B ' r m , ... f * V* l;

Prom the Soul, and the Soul from the

Spirit? Wheneven now thou faidft
the Soul was the Cloathing, or Ap-
parrel of the Mindc, and the Body j

of the Soul.
**>

f ^8. 2Cfifm. O Son, he that hears

muft co-underftand, and confpire in
thought with him that fpeaks • yea,
he muft have his hearing (wifterand
r, then the voycc of the
V:‘ '

fpeakef.
I 59.Thedifpofiti :>n of thefe Gloat fl¬
ings or Covers , is done in the an
Earthly Body •' for k is impolfible,
iat the Minde fhould eftablilh or reft
fclf, naked, and of it felf, in an
arthly Body $ neither is the Earthly
ody able to bear fuch immortality :
fVnd therefore, that it might faffer fo
>reat vertue, the Minde compared as
t were, and took to it felf the pafiiblc
5ody of the Soul, as a Covering or a
ploathing. And the Soul being alfo ■t

n fome fort Divine, ufeth the Spirit

iSher Miniftcr and Servant*, and the
F ' \ , • E 3 Spirit
 54.
Spirit governeth • the living thing;
60. When therefore the Mindeisj
feparated, and departeth from the
Earthly Body, presently it puts on its
Fiery Coat, which it could not do,
having to dwell in an Earthly Body.
61. For the Earth cannot ,fuffer
fire, for it is all burned of a fmall
fpark ^ therefore is the water poured
I round about the Earth, asa Wall or
defence, to withftand the dame oi
fire. • > 4h i

62. But theMinde being the moft

fliarp or fwife of all the Divine Cogi¬
tations, and more (wife then all the
Elements, hath the fire for its Body.
6-%. For theMinde which is the
Workman of all, ufeththe fire as his
Jnftrument in his workmanlhip $ 2nd
he that is the Workman of all, ufeth
it to the making of all things, as it is
ufed by man, to the making of Earth*
ly things onely • for the Mjnde that is
upon Earth, voyd, or naked of fire,
cannot do the bufinefs of men* not
\ ,
' vT ' that
I
that which is otherwife the affairs of
God.
64. But the Soul of Mail, and yet
not every one, but that which is pious
and religious,is Angelical arid Divine,
And luch a Soul, after it is d eparted
from the Body , having-"driven the
ftrife of Piety, becomes either Minde
or God.
65. And the ftrife of Piety is to
know God,and to injurn no Man*, and
/

this way it becomes Minde.

66. But an impious Soul abideth
in its own * 4
it'
y
felf,
feeking an earthly and human
/

Body to enter iflto. r

67. For no other Body is capable
of an Humane Soul, neither is it law¬
. \ 'i

/
ful for, a Mans Soul to fall,info the

For it is the Law or Decree of God,

to preferve an Humane Soul from fo
grCatacontume
158. Cat How tnen is the
of Mail punifhed, O Father*, ')
E 4
 56 t
of
what is its greateft torment i
V 6,9• ^erm. Impiety, O my Son*
for what Fire hath fo great a flame as
as it ' Or what biting Beaft dothfo
tear the Body, as it doth the Soul.
79. Or do ft thou not fee how many
Evils the wicked Soul fuffereth, roar¬
ing and crying out, 3 am barnei>, 3 ant
confumeo, 3 bnoto nottobat lo Tap, o^oo, 3
am DeboureD, uubappp njctcf), of ffcc ebils
tfyst rompafa, ano lap fjolo upon me; miier'
able that 3 am> 3 nettfjer f® noj bear sttn
l&fng.
V- .Th.cfe are ‘he voyces of a
puniftied and tormented Soul, and not
as many ♦ and thou, O Son, thinkeft, I
that the Soul going out of the Body,
grows bruitifh or enters into a Beaft;
which is a very great Error, for the j
■ Soul puniftied after this maner. 1
72. FortheMinde, when it is or- I
dered or appointed to get a fiery Body
for the fervices of God* coming

the
 die wicked Soul being fcourged,turns
it fclf to Murthers, and Contumelies
, and Blafphemies, and divers Violen¬
ces, and other things by which men
are injured.
I 73. But into a pious Soul, the
j Minde entering,leads it into the Light
1 of Knowledg.
1 74. Andlucha Soul is never fat is -
f i fied with finging praife Co ©00, and
\ {peaking well of ail men; and both
I'in words and deeds, always doing
good in imitation of her Father.
f 75. Therefore, O Son, we mud
i give thanks, and pray, that we may
| obtain a good minde.
i 79. The Soul therefore may be
j- altered or changed into the better s
r but into the worfe it is impoflible.
! 77- 3ut there is a communion of
I Souls ; and thofe of Gods, commu-
- hjeate with thofe men ; and thofe of
t men, with thofe of Beafts.
j; 78. And the better always take
j.
of the worfe, Gods of Men, Men of
.« - ' „ • -v "’ -— *-- w ^ "

* *7 )
bruit ** r

1
 I

bruit Bealls, but God of all : For he

is the belt of ail, and all things are
left then he.
79. Therefore is the World fub-
jed unto God, Man unto the World,
and unreafonabk things to Man.
So. But God is above all, anda-
bout all 5 and the beams of God are
operations ? and the beams of the
World are Natures 5 and the beams
of Man are Srfs atiD Sciences.
81. And Operations do ad by the
World, and upon man by the natural
beams of the World, but Natures
work by the Elements, and man by
Arts anq Sciences* 1
82. And this is the Government
of the whole , depending upon the
Nature of the 4ptte> and piercing or
coming down by the 4Dne$EtfnDe, then
which nothing is more Divine, and
mare efficacious or operative $ and
nothing more uniting^ or nothing is
more 0ne. The Communion of Gods
4

to Men, and of Meato Gods.

% < 83.This
 A. X 4 A i * 'I ■', •

83. Thi$ is the ISonna genf^f.•, or

; bleflc&Soul that is
it / and, unharmv Soul that is > ' \

it. . f 4-^ i. 4. -J *>. *

84. scat. And wherefore Father ?

85. SDttfm. 1 Know Son, that every
Soul hath the; ^tnte ; for of
that it is we; now fpeak, and pot of
that Minifter, of which We’fajd be¬
fore, That he was fent from-the Judg*
ment.
»*• t - ■ C ' ' *• * » * ■ ■ 1 ;• « ; j \ ' . : ■ *

86. For the Soulu without the

Minde, can neither do, nor (ay any
thing *, for many times the Minde flies
away from the Soul, and in that hour
the, SquI neither feeth nor heareth,
but is like an unreafonable thing • fo
greatis the power of the Minde.,
87. But neither brooketh. it an idle
or lazy Soul, but leaves fuch a one
faftned to the Body, and by itpreffed
f * -f
••

88. And fuch a Soulj O Son, hath

no minde * wherefore neither, muft
fuch a one be called a Man.
X if V 8p. For
 8?. For Man is a Divine living
thing, and is not to be compared to
any bruit Beaft that lives upon Earth,
t
but to them that are above in Heaven,
» ^ ^ '** :f. / ''I

that are called Gods.

go. Rather, if we fhall be bold to
{peak the truth, he that is a man in¬
deed, is above them, or at leaft they
are equal in power, one to the other t
For none of the things in Heaven will
| come down upon Earth, and leave
the limits of Heaven, but a man
* * 'v *

afeends up into Heaven, and meafures

it. ' ^ ‘ •
pi. And he knoweth what things
are on high, and what below, and
iearneth all other things exactly.
p2. At)d that which is the greatefl
©f all, heleaveth not the Earth, and
yet is above: So great is the greatnefs
of his Nature.
P5. Wherefore we rhuft be bold
to fay, SC&at an Cartht? man, is a mortal
^00 j ano t^at tlje Ijeatjcnly d5oo, is an tm*
ntotfal - vlri
 Meviim. 61
94. Wherefore, by thefe two arc \1

all things governed, the World, and

Man; but they and all things elfe, of
i'

.jf

that which is £Dne»

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and jet mofl mmifejl.

His Difcourfe I will;
alfo make to thee,
O "%at, that thou
may ft not be igno¬
rant of the more
/ excellent Name of
God. ) •• ! y

2*. But do thou contemplate in thy

m4’e, how that which to many
feems hidden and unmanifeft, may be j
moft manifeft unto thee. Ja__
<« 2. For it we re not all, if it were ap*
parent, for whatsoever is apparent,
is generated or made $ for it was made
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■itiamfcft, but that which is not mani-

fell is ever. ' . ‘
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not to be manl-
fchecij for it is always. > n

5. '! And he maketh t

mamfeft^being onmanifefl, as being
;always, and fencing otter thin**
inifeft, he is not made mamfeftflHH » t +u

6. Himfclf is not made, yet in

fantalie hefantafieth all things, or in
nppearancehe:;v-;',^i'v^
jFor appearance is on
hat are generated’ or made , for ap~
" {is.nothing bet generation*
i /. *»ut he' that is
• < V i v
that is not
enerated,
*'4T° 'r
is \ alfo„ imappa®
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rent ? ■A.
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mgs appear.
3

to, or
19—

r\

to the $)ms front

is one to to thee,
that
 \

that thou mayeft know and ttnderftand

fo great a Cod $ and that he would
fhine one of his beams upon thee in
thy underftanding. >,
, j o* For onely the llndcrftanding
fees that which is not manifeft, or ap¬
parent^ as being it felf not manifeft of
apparent ^ and if thou canft, O ■ JCif, it
will appear to the eyes of thy minde.
li. For the Lord, voyd of envy,
appeareth through the whole world.
Thou may eft. fee. the intelligence, and
take it in thy hands, and contemplate
the Image of God. .1
iu Bat if that which is in thee, be
hoc known or apparent unto thee, j
bow* {Hall he in thee be feen, andap
pear unto thee by the eyes i
15. But if thou wilt fee him, con [+

fider and underiftand the &Hn, con-

ftder the coiu le of the {©am, confide?
the order of the v■
14. Who is he that keepeth order <•
for all order is circumfcribed orter*
minated.in number and place. ,
*Mhc
« Hermes Trifmegiflm. 6$
i 15. The Sun
.isthe greateft of the
f-Gods in Heavcn^o whom all thehea-
! venly Gods give places as to a King
and potentate 5 and yet he being fuch
: a one, greater then the Earth or the
Sea, is content to fuffer infinite lefTer
iStars to walk and move above him-
'tlelf; whom doth he fear the while, O

1 16. Every one of thefe Stars that

are in Heaven, do not make the like,
pr an eqyal courfe • who is it that
fiath preferibed unto every one, the
planer and the greatnefs of their
courfe i
I 17. This Bear that turns round a-
>out its own felf, and carries round
he whole World with her, who
»ofieffed and made fuch an Inftru-
nent.£
■p j
'- • : v

I 18. Who hath fetthe bounds to

he Sea i who hath eftabliifhed the
iiarth? for there is fome Body, O
'Mt, that is the Maker and Lord of
lefe things. 3
■ Is 19, For
 m *
c

it is impolTible, O Son,
or number, or mea-
furc, ihould be obferved without a

26, For no can be made by

• ; y

v*v* v/i ' X

y I
2 i. r-'p would it were pofliblc for
thee, O my Son, to have wingS, and
toflie into the Air, and being taken
up in the midft,’ between Heaven and
Earth,to fee the liability of the Earth,
the fluid nefs of the Sea, the courfesof
the Rivers, the large nefs of the Air,
the fliarpnefs or fwiftnefsof the Fire,
the motion of the Stars, and the
fpeedinefs of the‘Heaven, by which
it goeth round about all thde.
22. G Son, what a happy fight it
were, at one inftaht, to ice all-theft*
that which is unmoveable moved,an
that wfiich is hidden appear and be
nifeft <
23. And if thou wilt fee
hold this Workman, even by ni
things that are upon Earth, and inutile 1
 'ijmegijm. 6j
1- i

ipeep, confider, O Son, how $)pan is v

I

taade and framed in the Womb 5. and

examine diligently the skill, and cun-
pg of the Workman, and learn who
it was that wrought and fafhioned
[he beautiful and Divine fhape of span-
who circumfcribed and marked out
his eyes < who bored his noftrils and
ears ^ who opened his mouth, who
flretched out and tied together his
pews t who channelled the veins i
ffho hardned and made ftrong the
pones ? who clothed the flefh with
[kin ? who divided the fingers and
he joynts i who flatted, and made
►road the foals of the feet i who dig-
■ d the pores e who flretched out the
fpleen < who made the Heart like a
Bmmts i who made the Liver broad s
Vho made the Lights fpungy, and
“ill of holes f who made the belly V I

rge and capacious ? who fet to out-

ard view, the more honorable parts,
nd hid the filthy ones. >, r
' 24. See how many Arts in one
I P 2 Matter.
Matter, and how many Works in one
Superfcripcion, and all exceedingly
beautiful,and all done in meafure, and
yet all differing, , ;:j
25. Who hath made all thefe
things? what Mother ? what Father $
faveonely God that is not manifeft i
that made all things by his own
Win. •/ ; •

26. And no man fays that a flattie

or an image is made without a Carver
or a Painter, andwasthis Workman-
fhip made without a Workman? 0
great Bliridnefs, O great Impiety, 0
great Ignorance.
27. Never, O Son Eaf,canft thou
deprive the Workmanfhip of the
Workman, rather it is the bed Name
of all the Names of God, to Cal him 1

the jfatfier of all, for fo he is alone;

and this is his work to be the Father.
28. And if thou wilt force roe to
fay any thing more boldly, it is his
Eitence to be pregnant, or great with
all things, and to make them,
v : ‘ ; 2p< And
 2And as without a Maker, it is
tj impoffible that any thing ihould be
made, fo ic is that he mould not ai¬
rways be, and always, be making all
things in Heaven, in the Air, in the
1 Earth, in the Deep, in the whole
| World , and in every part of the
i
whole, that is, or that is not, -f' f’
i 30. For there is^nothing id- the
q whole World,that is not himfel^both
^ the things that are, and the things
.. that are not.
• 31. For the things that are,he hath
made manifeft * and the things that
are not, he hath hid in himfelf.
J 32. This is God that is better then
0 any name •, this is he that is fee ret 5
this is he that is mo ft manifeft ; this is
%e that is to be feeh by the Minde^
: this is he that is viftble to the eye*
[, this is he that hath no body * and this
-Is he that hath many bodies, rather
■! there is nothing of any body, whiclf
lifts not
I 33., For btalone is all things.
f 4

if 3 v 34. 8nn
 r

34* tfnDfoj (1)13 caufe ppty all $ames,

becaKfc t)c w tp £Dne JFat&er; ano t&emoje
$5*1 no $ame, b^caufe lie to tp ifat^cc
of all.
35* Who therefore canblefs thee,
or give thanks for thee, or to thee.
36. Which way /hall I look,when
,1 praifethee * upward ? downwards
outward ? inward f
37. For about thee there is no
maner,nor place, nor any thing elfe of
all things that are.
% 3 8- But all things are in thee •, all
things from thee , thou giveft all
things, and takeft nothing •, for thou
haft all things, and there is nothing
that thou haft not. \
3,9' When fhall I praife thee, 0
Father - for it is neither poffible to
comprehend thy hour, nor thy time ?
49. For what (ha'll I praife thee ?
for what thou haft made, or for what
thou haft not made < for thofe things
thou haft manifefted, or for t
1

41. Where-
* H 4 X
 41. Wherefore {hall I praife thee
, as being of my felf, or having any
thing of mine own,or

,I 42. For thou art what I am, thou

I art what I do, thou art what I fay.
■ 43. Cfjcu art all flings, ano tijere is no*
tiling dfetljouartnch A
,i 44. « ait ffjcu, all f|tat is maor, am
fj| all t^atts not maOe.

46 . t^a£ ma&cfl) ana fram*

48. %fyi ©ffitj tljat cot?) all £jjtng?»

4p. Of the Matter, the moft fub-
Ltilc and (lender part is ^tr, of the Air
||the &ou!, of the Soul the spinoe, of the
i Minde OeD.
 i

Cod, O 0fcleprus > is in

nothing but in Giod a*
lone 5 or rather God hitn-
felf is the Good always.
2. And ifit be fo,thcn j
muft he be an Effence or Subftance,
voyd of all motion and generation*,
but nothing is voyd or empty of
him.
* ft *
1
* ■

3. And this Elfence hath about or

in himfelf a Stable, and firm Operation,
wanting nothing, moft full,and giving
abundantly.
4. One thing is the Beginning of
all things, for it givech all things5
and
/
I The fixth Book, &c. 75
I . //* ■
it and when I name the Good, I mean
I that which is altogether, and always
'Good.
I 5. This is prefent to none,but God
(ialone 5 for he wanteth nothing!, that
[he fhould defire to have it, nor can
*•

.any thing be taken from him • the

ilofs whereof may grieve him • for
tforrow isa part of evilnefs. . /
I 6. Nothing is ftronger then he,
S|1that he ihould beoppofed by it-, nor
^ nothing equal to him, that he fhould
iolbe in love with itnothing unheard »
31 of to be angry, with nothing wifer
k to be envious at.
Jr 7* And none of thefe being in his
::: Elfence, what remains, but onely the
{Good < ..
8. For as in this, being fuch an
iJpflenee, there is none of the evils; fo
in none of the other things lhallthe
Good be found.
9- For in ail other things, are all
thofe other thlngs,as well in the final!
J as the great, and as well in the par-
" / ' j • ■v ' ticulars.
 ticulars, as in this living Creature «
the greater, and mightieftof all.
10. For all things that are made or
generated, are full of Paflion, Gene¬
ration it felf being a Paflion • and
where Paflion is there is not the
Good; ‘Where the Good is, there is
no Paflion *, where it is day, it is not
night, and where it is night, it is not
day. j
11. Wherefore it is impoflible,
that in Generation fliould be the
1 * r ; .

Good, but onely in that which is not

, generated or made. H
12. Yet as the Participation of all
things is in the Matter bound, fo alfo
of that which is Good. After this
maner is the World good,as it maketh
all things, and in the part of making
or doing (tk^v) it is Good, but in all j
other things not good. J
13. For it is paflible, and move-
able, and the Maker of pafliblej
things.
14. In Man alfo the Good is or-
• ■« ) ‘rs ,' v Apred
 dered (oj fafeotl) Denomination') in com¬
panion of that which is evil*, for that
> which is not very evil, is here Good $
'and that which is here called Good,
> is the leaft particle, or proportion of
ivii. ''o':
§ 15. It is impoflible therefore, thac
mhe Good Ihould be here pure from
Evil *, for here the Good groweth E-
vil, and growing Evil, it doth not ftill
• abide Good $ and not abiding Good,it
(becomes evil.
is 16. Therefore in God alone is the
%

ICood, or rather God is the Good.

)ii 17. Therefore, O Jifclepio^ there
fijis nothing in men (fj among me^) but
fiflihe name of Good, the thing it felf is
ujJiot,'for it is impoflible 5 for a material
uiBody rccciveth (ttf ccmpMjtnsetjj) is
,.,?not as being on every fide encompafs-
|ed, and coar&ed with evilnefs, and
labors, and griefs, and defires, and
wrath, and deceipts, and fooiilhopb
Imions. \
Jf 18. And ip that which is the worft
< . of • -
 76 The fixth Book of
\ ’’ . N . ,,
of all, Hfc!rpt«3, every one of the fore-
named things, is here beleevedtobe
the greateft good, efpecialiy that fa.
pream mifehief y&Tex^pU the plea-, j
fures of the Belly, and the ring-leader
of all evils: Error is here theabfence j
of the Good. •j
ip. And I give thanks Unto God,that ]
concerning the Knowledg of (Seen, 1
f put this affurance in mymindg, (hat
it is impolfible it fhould be in the
World.
y ,
20. For the World isthefulncfs
/ ■
!
of evi’ntls ^ but God is the fulnefs of j
Good, or Good of God.\ E I
21. For theeminencics of all 2p*j
pearing Beauty, are in the Eifence j
more pure, and more fincere, and
peradventure they are alfo the Eifen' j
ces of it. I
2 2. For we muft be bold to fay, j
£fcleptus, That the Eifence of God^J
' if he have an Eifence, is ?b i&hbv that!
which is fair or beautiful 5 but no 1
good is comprehended in this World, j
l 23. For I
 For all things that are
to the eye^ are Idols, and as it were
ftiadows ; but thofe things that are
not fubjed to the eye, are ever, efpe-
1( daily the Cttence of the Fair and the

24. And as the eye canrtBt fee

,Cod, ib neither the Fair, and the
’ Good.
nr-
25. For thefe are the parts of God
that partake the Nature of the.whole,
proper, and familiar unto him alone, ( '

infeparable, moft lovely, whereof

either God is enamoured, or they are
enamoured of God.
26. If thou canft underftand God,
/ ^

thou fhalt underftand the and

the dSisD, which is moft ihining, and
'enlightening, and moft enlightened
lby God. ' . ”,
27. For that Beauty is above com¬
panion, and that Good is inimitable,
5 God himfelf.
28. As therefore thou underftand^-
ft God , fo underftand the Fair, and
the
 theGa°d. forthefe arc incommuni*
cable to any other living Creatures
becapie they are infcparable from
God. j
‘ sp. If thou feck concerning God
tliou ffekeft oraskeft alfo of the Fair,
for there is one way that leads to the
fame thing,. that is ^ietg with tofu*
te&S. #
30. Wherefore,they that are igno-
rant, and go not in the way of Piety,
dare call Man Fair and Good, never
feeing fo much as in a dream, what
Good is 5 but being infolded and
' *. \
wrapped upon all evil, and beleeving
that the evil is the Good, they by that
means, both ufe it unfatiably, and are
afraid to be deprived of it; and there¬
fore they ftrive by all poffible means,
that they may not onely have it, but
alfo encreafe it.’
31. Such, O Sfdeptu*, are the
Good and Fair things of men, which
we can neither love nor hate 5 for this
is the hardeft thing of all,that we have
need
 ' • 7

*f

/. l '

V in the
Mount
elsion of oi
lence.
\

To his Son Tat.

$af.'In the general Speech
rK es, O Father, difeourfing]
H of the 2Dil»tmtif, thou
_ I
enigmatically
and didft nptcleerly re-]
veal thyfelf, faying. That no man
can be faved before ^generation.
2. And when I did humbly
/ • thee.
 Hermes Trifmegijlm. Si

i thee, at the going up to the Mountain,

m fll H• ^ Ih

('after thou hadft difcourfed unto me3

iihaying a great deftre to learn this
•argument of Regeneration j becaufe
jamong all the reft, I am ignorant one-
sly of this thou toldft me thou wouldft
Impart it unto me, when I would
eftrange my felf from the World;
whereupon 1 made my felf ready, and
have vindicated the underftanding
that is in me, from the deceit of the
World.
I 3. Now then fulfil my defeifts,
and as thou faidft inftrudt me of Re*
jeneraftoit, either by word of mouth,
)r fecretly ; for I know not, O HDrif*
ncgite, of what Subftance,or what
Womb, or what Seed a Man is thus
iitorn. - •
I 4. O Son, this Wifdom is
||p. be underftood in filence,* andy the
* *

Seed is the true Good.

or I am utterly ignorant, and doubt

1
 8z The feventh Boole of
6. ferm. The Will of God, o
Son. :
■ 7. And what mailer of Man is he,
that i< thus born t for in this point, I
am clean deprived of the EiTence that
underflandeth in me. j
8. fe t m. The Son of God will b
another, God made the univerfe, that
in every thing confifteth of all
V'

9. % ft. Thoutelleft me a Riddle

r
Father, and doft not fpeak as a Father
to his Son.
10. ^erm. Son, things of this
kinde, are not taught, but are by God,J
when he pleafeth, brought £0 re¬
membrance.
n. Cat Thou fperikefl of things
{trained, or far fetcht, and impoflibk,
\0, Fuherf. and therefore I will dirt dtly
3»• t
A i > A

12. i'crm. Wilt thou prove a

I ,
llranger Son, to rhy fathers ki
t$V Do not envy me, or
pardon me, I am thy Natural Son;
r 5 - . \
difcourfe
t,\
 difcourfe unto me the maner of
generation*
14. What (hall I fay, G my
Son < I have nothing to fay more
then this, That I fee in my felf an urn*
fained fight or fpe&acle, made by the
mercy of God; and I am gone out
If
of my felf, into an immortal body,
and am not now what I was before,
but was begotten in Minde.
15. This thing is not taught, nor
is it to be feen in this formed Element 5
for which the firft compounded form
was neglected by me, and that I am
now feparated from it ; for I have
f both the touch, and the meafure of
it, yet am I now efiranged from
j /

* 16, Thou feefi, O Son,with thine

f eyes butthough thou look never fo
ftedfaftly upon me, with ,the Body,
and bodily fight, thoucanft not fee,
nor underftand what I am now.
17. Cat* Thou haft driven me,
O Father, into no frnall fury and
■ ' G 2 •
 ' ♦
eventli Book of
diftradlion of minde,forI do not now
x fee my fell.
i i^erm. I would, O Son, that '
thou aifo were gone out of thy felf
like them that dream in their fleep. * j
\g. SEat. Then tell me this, who
is the Author and Maker of Regene¬
ration 1 4
20. ferm. The Childe of God,
one Mdn by the Will of God. fj
t ' 2i> Cat. Now, O Father, thou
haft put me to filence for ever, and all
my former thoughts have quite left,
and forfaken me 5 for I fee the great-
nefs, and fhape of all things here be¬
low , and nothing but faifhood in
them all.
22. And fithence this mortal Form
is daily changed, and turned by time
into increafe, and diminution, as being
faifhood : What therefore is true, o |
, SDrifme&rois t
27, OCiltm* That, O Son, which
is not troubled, nor bounded 5 not
coloured, not figured, not changed 5
1 ■ , tnat
 that which is naked, bright, compre-
henfible onely of it felf, unalterable.

24. %ah Now I am mad, indeed

Father h for when I thought me to
it
have been made a wife man by thee,
1 with thefe thoughts thou haft quite
dulled all my fenfes.
$
2 5. ^crm. Yet is it fo, as I fay, O
I ' Son, ttjat lafeetft onelp upon that
which is carried upward as Fire, that
y which is carried downward as Earth,

that which is may ft as Water, and

t that which blqweth, or is fwbjed to
* blaft as Air 5 how can he fenfibly un¬

derhand, that which is neither hard,

nor moyft, nor tangible, nor perfpi-
V
cuous , feeing it is onely underftood
It in power, and operation : But I bc-
feech and pray to thcSputce, which
1,1 alone can underhand the ^iteration,
which is in God.
26. 2£af. Then am I, O Father,
utterly unable to do it . r ^
27. God forbid Son,rather
G 3 draw
 V ,

<3raw or pull him unto thee f ftuty fa

knote Uni) and he 'will come , be but
tolling, ano it fijalbeoone ♦ quiet for
make idle) the Senfes of the Body,
purging thy felf from unreafonable
bruitjfh torments of matter.
28. Mut Have I any (revengers
or tormentors in my felf, ifatijerf
29. friR. Yea, and thofe, rtojc a
Few, but many, and fearful ones. >
30. SSCsL ' t do not know them,
Father.
31. Ipfcnn. One Torment Son is
Sgttojance, a fecond, a third,
intemperance, a fourth, Conraptfoitrt,
a fifth, 32 n tuff trie, a fixth, Cctofcufmfs,
a feverith, jBDecctt, an eighth,
a ninth, jrr^uoe oj 0m!e, a
eleventhjK3fbnef0, a twelfth,
spaltct&afhefg, ; . '
32. They are in number twelve,
and under thefe many moe • Tome

do force the inwardly placed Man to

 2 2. And they do not Suddenly, or
eafilv depart from him that hath ob¬
tained mercy of God *, apd herein
confifts, both the maner, and the rea-
fonof ^generation. tJ *
24. Fortherft, O Son, hold thy
peace, and pra.ife God in filence , and
by that means, the mercy 0* (j0d
I
will not ceafe, or be wanting unto
Kv . ^ \ • • S
* •>' V *
WV . V

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2 5. Therefore rejoyce, my Son,
from henceforward, being purged by
the powers of God, to the Knowledg
of the Truth. . cy
2^. For the revelation or uoa i^
come to us, and when that came* all
Ignorance was caft out. . •
ff, ; 37. The knowledg of Joy is come
i unto us, and when that comes, Sor¬
row fliail: flie away to them that are
capable of it. c
■ 28. I call unto Joy, the power of
$
Temperance, a power whofeA^ttue
is moft fweet: Let us take her unto
ourfclves, O Son, moft willingly, tor
G 4 how
i
 how at her coming hath Ihe put awa*

__
Intemperance ? v' ;|j

.a
39* Now I call the fourth, Conti-
nence, the power which is over Con
cupifcence. This,0 Son, isthe ftable
and firm foundation of Juftice. 1
40. For fee how without labor, (he

.
hath chafed away Injuftice * and we

-
-
-
are juftified, O Son, when Injuftice is

-—
..
.. 4r<> The fixth Vertue which come;

..
-.
into us, I call Communion, which is

:...
againft Covetoufnefs. '

---
. 42* And when that (Covetoufnefs)
is gone, I call Truth 5 and when flie

-
cometh, Error and Deceit vaniili-
cth.
43* See* O Son, how the Good is
fulfilled by the accefs of Truth -, for
by this means. Envy is gone from us
. for Truth is accompanied with the
Good, together alfo with Life and
Light.
44. And there came no more any
eorm^nt of Darknefs, but being over¬
come,
 [ come,they all fled away fuddenly,and
t tomultuarily.
45. Thou haft underftopd, O Son,
the maner of Regeneration 3 for upon
the coming of thefe Ten, die Intel-
f ledtual Generation is perfe&ed , and
I then.it driveth away the Twelve 3 and
| we have feen it in the Generation it
I felf. . ; , \ :. . .
46. Whofoever therefore hath of
II ^ this Generation,
^which is according to God,he leaving
all bodily fenfe, knoweth him felf to
f confift of divine things,and rejoyceth,
being made by God ftable and unmu-
J
I \

47. 2Caf. O Father, I conceive and

underftand, not by the fight of mine
il.eyes, but by the Intelleduai Operati¬
on, which is by the Powers. I am in
Heaven, in the Earth, in the Water*
t jn thc Air 3 I am in living Creatures,
in Plants, in the Womb, every
, / j. ■, 1.

Yet tell - me further , this

one
 ; * ' ^
V v

one thing . How arc the torments of

Darknefs, being in number Twelve,
driven aw ly and expelled by the Ten
powers ' What is the maner ;of it,
%xitn igtftas i / ~ ’
49. ^etm. This Tabernacle, 0
Son, confifts of the Zodiacal Circle;
and this confiding of twelve numbers,
the 3!sea of one ; but all formed Na¬
ture admit of divers Conjugations 10
V the deceiving of Man, §T
50. And though they be different
in themfelves , yet are they unitedii
pra&ice ( as for example, Rathnefsis.
infeparable from Anger) and they are
alfo indeterminate : Therefore with
good Reaibn, do they make their de¬
parture, being driven away by theTcii
powers •, that is to fay, By the

51. For the number of Ten, <j

Son, is the Begetter of Souls, m
there Life and light are united,vrtei
the number of tKnitp is born 0 1
Vv . Ther^
*
if 52. Therefore according to Rea-
fon, Unity hath the number of Tcn,
arid the number of Ten hath Unity,
f 53. SDat O Father, I now fee
;he Univerfe , and my felf in the
inde.
54. ^erm. This is Hegcnerahoitv O
jjSon, that we fliould not any longer
lx our imagination upon this Body,
[ubjed to the three dimenfions, ac-
rding to this Speech which we have ft ■

ow commented^ That we may not

t all calumniae the Univerfe. •
r 5G Sat Tell me, O Father,This
pody that confifts of Powers, tall it
rtfever admit of any DiTolution ?
5^.». Good words Son, and
Ynpt; things impdflible 5 -for fo
thou felt fin, and the eye of thy
grow
^ 57- The fenfible Body of Nature
s far from the Efiential Generation $
or that islubjed to DiiTolution, but
mis not • i and that is mortal, but this
b ,
mmofral. Doft thou not know that \

'■ .V ■ : '' thou

 pi The feventh Book of
>4’ 1 . ^ '. • * ,%

thou art born a God, and the Son of

the One, as I am i ■£
58. How fain would I, 0
Father, hear that praife given by a
Hymn,which thou faidft,thou heardft
from the Powers , when I was in the
narp.
59. pern. As pimanBcr faid by
way of Oracle to the aDctonary-t Thou
\ doft well, O Son, to ddire the Solu¬
\ tion of the tabernacle, for thou art
ified.
60. ptman&er, the Minde of abfo-
lute Power and Authority, hath de¬
livered no more unto me, then thofe
that are written • knowing that of my
felf, I can underftand all things, and
hear , and fee what I will. And he
commanded me to do thofe things
that are good ♦, and therefore all the
/ t

Powers that are in me fing. 1

61. 2Caf. I would hear thee,Q Fa¬
ther, and underftand thefc things.
6z. ^erm. Be quiet,,O Son, and
now hearken to that harmonious bleb
..Si ' m
 fing and thankfgiving • the hymn of
Regeneration , which I did not deter¬
mine to have fpoken of fo plainly, but
to thyfelf in the end of all.
I 63. Wherefore this is not taught, h
,but hid in fiience.
[ 64. So then, O Son, do thou,
jftanding in the open Air , worihip,
jlooking to the North Wind, about
jthc going down of the Sun; and to
xhe South,whcn the Sunarifecho And
how keep fiience Son.

The Secret Song.

11 •sc
:i; The Holy Speech. - 0

||gj
L■fEtentertain
al] the Nature of the world
the hearing of this X
/St

[yum, S

i 66. Be opened, O Earth, and let

ll the Treafure of the Rain be open-
id.
67. You Trees tremble not, fori
1 will
B The feventh
* > > ¥

willfing, and praife the Lord of the

Creation, and the 3U, and the £>ne,
68. Be opened you Heavens, ye
Winds ftand fttU, and let the immata
al Circle of God 3 receive theft
words. "..V/""* it;T W
69. For I will fing, and praife hir
that created ali things, that fixed th
Earth, ancfhung up the Heavens, an
commanded the fweet Water to com
out of the £Dtcan, into all the Wor!
inhabited , and not inhabited, totht
■A
life, and nourifhmentof all things, Q
men. ■ F
70. That commanded the fire to
fliir.e for every a&ion, both to Gods
and Men. ’iH
r- 71. Let us altogether give bin
b! effing, wh ch rideth upon the Hej
vens,the Creator of all Nature.' j
72. This is he that is the Eye I
the Mindc, and Will accept the
• of my Powers.
7?. O all ye Powers that arc®
me, praife the and the a'f.
' ' ' -74*
1
I 74. Sing together with my Will,
1 all you Powers that are in me. i

75. O Holy Knowledg, being en¬

lightened by thee, I magnifie the in¬
telligible Light, and rejoyce in the
Joy of the Minde.
I 76. All my Powers fing praife
^Withme, and thou my Continence,
fing praife. my Righteoufnefs by me 5
praife that which is righteous. \
77. O Communion which is in m

me, praife the ZlL , ,

78. By me the SCrnffj lings praife
to the SDittfij, the Good praifeth the
iGood, f ^ ' ' 1
79- O Life, O Light from us, unto
ou, comes this praife and thankfgi-
«ving.' ; _ .' •
80. X give thanks unto thee, O
father, the operation or ad of my
(powers.
|J 81. I give thanks unto thee, O
the Power of my operations.
82. By me thy Word fings praife
‘unto thee, receive by me this reafon-
able
 The feventh Book
able (or verbal) Sacrifice in words.
83. The powers chat are in me,-
cry thefe things, they praife! the ail,
they fulfil cjay Will 5 thy Will and
- Councel is from thee unto thee.
84. O ail, receive a reafonable
Sacrifice from all things.
i> vj. /
C IT
" * V ' • 1

85. Oilife, fave all that is in us«,

O llight enlighten, O Cvfi the Spirit-,
for the Minde guidcth (or feedeth -the
Word : O Spirit bearing Work¬
man.
$6. Thou art Con, thy cryeth
thefe things unto thee through, by
the F re, by the ir,- by the Earth, by ;
the Water , by the Spirit: > by thy
Creatures.
87. From eternity I have found
(means to) blefs and praife thee, and
I have what I feek 5 for I reft in thy
Will.
88. 2C*\ O Father, 1 fee thou haft
fung this Song of praife and bleffing,
with thy whole Will} and therefore

. - ■ d : rv
have I put and placed it in mv W
s* i$to*
 Sp. ¥£«?rm. Sayin t
* MO Son. * \ ^ "r ’/ . * }

90. Caf. I do mean M iiny Intcl-

tligible World * for
i ; * - rj/ / i -— -v*

; - Song of praife, my Mindt is enlighf^

n. j and gladly would I “ ’ "
-giving

^enm NptraiTdy,0 Son.

%Ul
>4r
In my Minde>- Q Fa-
' ^ V -‘-“ii !«*♦»
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4*4.
V- ••Jr ^ vi
>

nd Contemplate, I infufi into thee - / ;

*'&' a » f v > - >/"* «•». 1 /« **• " -

,, t.
■"Author of thy fucceed
k

hns, I fend Unto Gbd thcfeheafortablc

i
n;4 vH*
. f '* f . .. j
uf >jm fta!V .fl T
03 f

94- 0(000, tfjou art Spa

tf tfje IL o^o, tfjou art (fie Spinpe, accept
reafanablc
■4 *
Sacrifices
*. • * fVT/ ' . r 7 i* *3
■■H ■*_ I

trc& of me. IIPmpHU

P5* *For all things are done as the
indewilleth. * ^

£1 96. Thou,0 Soo5fend this accept-

tble Sacrificeto God, the Father of
H all
 e ieventh boo v*

all things • but propound italfo, o

Son, by word.
97. fCif. I thank thee. Father
thou haft advifed and inftru&ed me5
thus to give prai fe and thanks.
98. l^erm. I am glad, O Son, to
fee the Truth bring forth the Fruits of
Good things 3 and fuch immortal
Branches. |
, 99. And learn this of me : Above
all other Vertues entertain Silence!
and impart unto no man, O Son, the]
tradition of Regeneration, leaft we be
reputed Cal umniators: For we both
have now fufficiently meditated, I in
if" fpeaking, thou in hearing. And now
thou doft intelle<5tually know thy felf>
and our Father.
C
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and if you cannot all do fo, yet do as

manyasy oucan.
»• v- ***&»■ ■'»&* «,■ •* i '.a

h::^«%For the malice of Ignorance

foroundeth aU the Earth, and cor-
ruptetli the S nd j Oiui Up in the Body,
not lurrering it to arrive at the Havens
of Salvation.
jIq Suffer nft yqur felvestohfc car¬
ried with the great Bream , but Hem
the tide, you that can lay hold of the
Haven of Safety, and make your full
cour^rowarOT itd ■ 1
5. Seek one that may lead you by
the hand, and conduct you to the door
••of and Khowf dg, where the
cleer Light ii that is pure from Dark-1
nefs, where there is not one drunker,
srefober, - and in .their he:
whofcplepr^t^
t \ f
y •» t'-i -# f >
4 i
*. jl i 4 * ft T

. 6.„ for he, cannot be

* w' ' i . i
m » — .m '■ y f ' * f ■. .

cars,-<npr: feen ^with eyes, nor c t

ln^-vyords^j but onely in minde and
I JLv ! • * ..v. O -J Jf> ,— s >

tear a pccccs,
*■ ■ <r-
• and
 ♦

■
mime& / 'yj
i
and break thrnu^h-
I weareft; • the Web bf • ihd
{foundation of all JVf i&hief fTR¥&6nd:
tiof Corruption *, the dark Coverture 5
fine living Death $ the fenfible Car^
leafs *, the Sepulchre, carried about
irwith-- us v; the do we# $ ^/^ch
■ *
(tin what he loves us, hates 11$, envies
lis. n
1! ’v \

8. Such is the hurtful Apparel,

Wherewith thou artcloarlted. which
[draws and pulls thee downward by
fits own felf *, left looking up, and fee¬
ding the beauty of Truth , and the
[Good that is repofed thereinthou
iouldft hate the wickednefs of this
garment, and underhand the traps
Ii:and ambulhes which it hath laid for
lit ■ ’ -- >■

•We. y - ,
Therefore doth it labor to make
MjooSydiofe things that feem, and are
}y the Senfes, judged and determined $
and the things that are truly, it hides,
and cnvellopeth in much matter, fill-
ling what it prefents unto thee, with
f H a hateful
 W l.

O F ■x

mentm.
Xf >

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i

1US.
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<^cm. All that is moved,

O 0fclepius, is it not
in

2. &fclep. Yes in¬

deed. * v •

3. ^erm. Muft not that, in which

. ^
a thing is moved , of neceifity be
greater then the thing that is
[ *w % ^
(moved i : . *

I 4. Of neceifity. a .

* ,
~ v'

H4 5. And
 5. And that which moveth is iE
not ftrongcr then that which is
shoved i
Sr&ftkp* It is Wronger.
7. That in which a thin®
_ 5 muft it not needs have a
Nature, contrary to that of the thin®
that is moved ?
-
r ■
8..&fclcp. It mu/|needs,
9. ’wzirfe' Is not this great World j
a Body, then which . there is no
greater i 1

impiKP j
iozl&ftUp. Yes, confelfedly ?

mm
11. l^eim And is knot (olid, as

JJII I
I
filled \yith .many great Indies, and in-,
deed,, with all the-Bodies that are c
r X*. It is fo. r <
13. |r^crm. And'is,not the
p and a Body that is moved i
14. $fdep, It is,
15. ^erm, Tjien what a kinde of
place muft it be, wherein it is moved,
and of what Nature f Muft knot be
much bigger, that it may receive the
continuity of Motion i and left that
-r a , . u which
 which is moved, fhould for want of
room, be flayed, and hindered in the
I Motion J
B. u ^ v s v 4 ... - " j| y.jy n ry- jf s

j 16. afdep* It mufl needs be an ini’

menfe thing,Cnfmtgt$u% but of what
Nature <
t 17. l^erm, Ora contrary Nature,
\
O dfdeptns 5 but is not the Nature of
things unbodily, contrary ;o a body ?
18. $fclep« ConfefTedly.
19. Therefore the place is
| unbodily ^ but that which is unbodily,
I is either Tome Divine thing,' or God
himfelf. And byfome thing Divine,
n I do not mean that which was made
or begotten.
► '
20. If therefore it be Divine, it is
1 ■ * * . , <' 1 Jf

i anElTence or Sub fiance * but if it be 40 t J

J; God,- it is above ECen.cc5 but he is

« • /*"> • mm* •« « ' *

otaerw - :

21 .Tor the firfl, God is intelligible,

, not to himfelf, but to ns5 for that
I which is intelligible, is fubjed to that
T which linderftandech by Senfe.
I -2t Therefore God is nqt inteiligi-
1
 ble to himfelf-, for not being any other J
!i.

thing from that which is underftood,

t
he cannot be underftood by him'
fclf.
23. But he is another thing from
us 5 and therefore is he underftood by
us.- 1
'!

24. If therefore Place be intelli¬

gible, it is not Place but God 5 but if
God be intelligible, he is intelligible
not as Place, but as a capable Opera*
tion.
/
2 5. Now every thing that is moved, ;
is moved, not in or by that which is
moved, but in that which ftandeth
or refteth, and that which moveth I
ftandeth or refteth •, for it is impofl&blc .1
it ftiould be moved with it. 1
26, ftfdep. How then, O
giftus, are thofe things that are here
moved with the things that are
moved i for thou fay eft, that the
Spheres that wander are moved by
the Sphere that wanders not. 1
z-j. That, O flfclcpinfc is !
Hjliii|HH' not ]
I

ri mepi tm.
not a moving together, but a counter*
motion $ for they are not moved after
a like maner, but contrary one to the
other: And contrariety hath a ftand
ing refiftance of motion.for the slvTiTuvaz
■f

*** .
rt - _ *

or refiftance, is a ftaying of motion

28. Therefore the wandring
Spheres being moved contrarily to
i I that Sphere which wandereth not,
fhall have one from another contrarie¬
ty fiand ing of it felf.
i 29. For this Bear which thou feett
. neither rife nor go down, but turning
e always about the fame ; doft thou
1* think it moveth or ftandeth mil ?
30. fiCclep. 'I think it moves,
mefltftus.
What motion, O &fcleptus i
31*
32. Mkp- A motion that is al¬
iff ways carried about the fame.
]}[r 33. But the Circulation which is
about the fame, and the motion about
f r* « ^ - . • « « . _

j the fame,are both hidden by Station

1 v*

I for that which is about the fame, for

, bids that which is above the fame*
/
 if it (land to that which is about the
A\

34. And fo the contrary motion

ftands faft always, being always cha-
bliihed by the contrariety.
35. But I will give thee concern¬
ing this matter, an earthly example
that may he feen with eyes,
36. Look upon any of thefe living
Creatures upon Earth, as Man forex,
ample, and fee him fwiming * for as
the Water is carried one way, the re-
lu&adon or refinance of his feet and
hands is made a ft at ion to the man,
that he fhould not be carried with the
Water, nor fink underneath it,
37. Hfdep. Thou haft laid down
a very cleer example, 2£rtfni£gjtta;»
Therefore every moti¬
on is in ftation, and is moved of fta-
tion.
3P.The motion then of the World,
and of every material living thing ,
happcneth not to be done by thofe
things that are without the World *
but
 but by thofe things within it, a Soul,
or Spirit, or fame other unbodily
thing, to thofe things which are with-
il out it*
40. for an inanimated Body doth
w
not now, much h?fs a Body if it be
I wholly inanimate.
41. 0fclep. What meaneth thou by
this,03Dtifmcgito^Wood and Stones,
and all other inanimate things, are
they not moving Bodies ?
42. By no means, O 0fcle*
tit:
plug, for that within the Body which
tit-
moves the inanimate thing, is not the
Body 5 that moves both as well the
Body of that which beareth, as the
J » v ' *

Body of that which is born 5 for one

in'
dead or inanimate thing, cannot move
another ; that which moveth, muff
needs be alive if it move.
43. Thou feeft therefore how the
Soul is furcharged, when it carrieth
n two Bodies.
44. And now it is manifeft , tha*
I the things that are moved are moved
 moved, O SDtifmfegtto, muft needs be
moved in that which is void or empty,
/ ■ * r r J . 1

46. Be advifed, O &&lepit», for of

all the things thatare,there is nothin*

can never be made empty. |

48. 0ulep. Are there not therefore
fome things that are empty, O SDrif*
tnrgiffu?, as an empty Barrel,an empty
Hog {head, an empty Well, an empty
Wine*Prefs, and many fuch like t
4.9. ^crm. O the groilnefs of thy
Error, O Sfdrptti^ thofe things that ]
are moft full and replenifhed , doft j
thou account themvoyd and empty i ']
50. $c?ep. What may be thy

51.
 5i* Is not the Air a Body t
52. 0fc!ep. It is a Body.
53- ^ernr4 Why then this Body,
doth it not pafs through all things
that are'*and palling through them,fill
them 1 and that Body doth it not con-
4 fill of the mixture of the four > there
It
empty, are full of Ayr.
[ 54. Therefore thofe things that
thou called empty, thou oughteft to
r call them hollow, not empty - for
they exift and are full of Ayr and
s

55. 3'dep* This reafon is

all contradi&ion, O SDtifmegtto, but
what fliall we call the Place, in which
the whole Univerfe is moved < 4
MJ&r

jf- 56. ^erm. Call it incorporeal, O

■; MWepius* .
!| 57. 0fdep. What is that incorpo-
sl real orunbodily i
58. l^erm. The Minde and Reafon,
f the whole, wholly comprehending it
fclf, free from all Body, undeceive-
able.
I
 able, in vifib!e, impaffib Ie from a Body
it felf, Banding faft in k felf, cabbie
of all things , and that favor of the
s that are.
59- Whereof the <0sb, the Km%
•.arche^pal Etghb the 0rdjet^e of
the Soul, are as it were Beams. ‘3
6o» 0ft Up. Why then , what is
God * v;? ■r’;j|
6t. 3|eraf That which is none of
tbefe things, yet is, and is the caufe of
Being to all y and every one of the
things that are 5 for he left nothing
deffitute of Being. 3
61. And all things are made of
things that are, and not of things that
afefioc-, ror .the things that are not,
have not the nature to be able to be
thade % and again, the things that are,
have not the nature never to be, or
nottobe aealUi
1
/ : • li ML

63. dfdcp* What doft thou then

lay at leng thy 4hat God is <f
* / / *

64. #ermfGad is not a Minde,but

the Gaufe that the Minde is; not a
» 4 % t* \ \ f m 0

, 1 - Spirit,
 Spirit, but the Caufe that the Spirit
!% 5 not Light , but the Caufe that
• ■ + :
f v — ^ V -- ^
< i *. t/ ' 4 fi ’ ' ' ■
V ■*. <*■ f V
r

6?. we W<
■r- ^ ■
two /-r • ^ * * •■ , . i 4 ; _^-J

which are proper to him alone, and

K. • f ■ “ s ’ - -

to no other.' .o -4
|p * ‘ - Li'; 1
J # **• '*
s ^ I.- ;
i* ■+ A -i -*> t ^ Mi •!'?

66. For neither of all the other,

Which are called Gods, nor qf Men, /

|lior 2Dtmon«, or Angels, can anyone

fee, though never fo iittlc, sood, fave
1 s-' j « ii) its*' J’l Pi . CP
onely God alone. * t'
n \ ^r % H

’l' 67. And 'this- He is,

fift =,hut all other thingsare fcparable
From the nature of of Good. 4 • - m
si
V J
68. . For
- '
the Body -v: J
and the*
r\j-4_

«>
Okulv vi)
:> ••> \7 « . ■•>'
tartcontain • t
-4 '■"/'> ^
t
->■

.«£#'*#
s** •

' .
^

vJ>
1 'Tp f t * ;• ^
For the , IS
!,ts great
Cat as the ^xiftence of all things,
_ _ *A A A t v'. a

is is the Good , even

1 ■* ** j y. c\ * ,*fa«\rs> *
• JO', £, * 'J t » .H , 5 ' .'
at any time, call ought elfe Good,
for fo thou ihait be impious, or any
elfe God, but onely the Good, for
fo thou (halt again be im pious.
72 . In; Word it is often faid by all
men the Good, but alt men do not
underftand what it is 5 but
Ignorance they call both the Gods,,
and fome men Good, that can never
either be or be made fo.
73. Therefore all the other
are honored w^h the title and appella¬
tion of God, but God is the Go0(
"* ■ / >■' : .1 >/. 1 ■ ■ , • •'.

not according to Heaven, but N;

ture. - . * - . »■>

74. For there is one Nature

God, even the Good , and one
J / 'J -V »' ■

of
- .
them
-
f...
both, from whence ail arc ’ *
klnacs.? * > : V \ C .y. ■9vX' — * ■£.* •" r * i[

75. For he that is Good , is t!

giver of all things,and takes nothing
and therefore God gives all things jl
and receives nothing.
j $. The other title and app?M*i
. tioH)
t I J \ J

tion, is the Father> ^ecauft $f :his

‘dng ail thing? $ for it is
a Father to make, r:i ; r ? ';
% 4 i »
u'

j 77. Therefore it hath been the

igreateft and moft Religious care in
■U V > *" W # -

[this life, to them that are wile, and

lswel-minded, to beget children.
78, As likewife, it is the greateft
isfortune and impiety, for any to be
eparated from men, without chil¬
dren 5 and this man is puniflied after
'death by the Simons , and the punifh-
ent is this. To have the Soul of
'this childlefs man, adjudged and con¬
demned, to a Body that neither hath
the nature of a man, nor of a woman,
Ivhich is an accurfcd thing under the

:f 79. Therefore, O 0fcicptus, never

congratulate any man that is child-
efs • but on the contrary , pity his
’misfortune, knowing what punifh-
entf abides, and is prepared for
ini.
80. Let fo many, and fuch maner
I 2 of
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1 he 1 eath
o F
* *£■ *

Hermes nlmemm ■j

v
t r i A

h 1
v/ f
■*" *

Tlte Minde to Hermes. K. 4

ff * t

Orbear thy Speech, O

derates SDrifutegtfftts,
and call to minde to
thofe things that are
faid : but I will not
delay to fpeak what
“omes into my minde, lithence many
nen have fpoken many things, and
:hofe very different , concerning the
Qniverfe, and Good $ but I have not
(earned the Truth. ■ i r,

2. T herefore, the Lord make it

I 3 plain
1
 -0 * '

it% The tenth Book of

X f >

>lain to me in this point • for I will

rlffS « =. . 2 ji ir: H

ii
v* *****--*d

3. Then faid thcMindehow the

cafe {lands.
4. God and All.
5 God, Eternity, the World,
Time, Generation.
.
6 God fifi&de ]_/ y. __.
the World, the World Time, and
Time Generation. 1
7. Of God, as it were the Sub-
ftance,is the <$odo, the jfair, )13!effetineff,
t&*foorJr.
8. Of Eternity, Identity, or Self*

9. ur the world,Order.
10. Of Time, Change.
M. Of Generation, Life, and;
1•

:a. But the Operation of God

^ vy VMl »

13* Of Eternity, Permanence, or

Long-lading, and Immortality. |
14. &f the World, Reftitution,
and
 and Decay, or Deftru&ion.
15. Of Time, Augmentation,and
! : ■»

Diminution.
16• And of Generation qualities.
\ 17. Therefore Eternity is in God.
.. 18. The World in Eternity.
! 19. Time in the World, -i >
I 20. And Generation in Time.
| 21. And Eternity flandeth about
I God.
I 2 2. The World is moved in Eter-
I nity. ■ v v- ' •
I-: 23. Time is determined in the
World. ),
24. Generation is done in Time.
25. Therefore the Spring and
Fountain of all things, is God.
26. The SubftanceEternity.
27. The Matter is the World.
28. The Power of God is Exer-
1

29. And the Work of Eternity, is

World not yet made, and yet ever
• _ _ •
uv. iJy JUvviiJiAujr*
30. Therefore lhall nothing be at
I 4/ any
 120

time.
is
— —1~ ^w | -mw m

31. Neither can

or in the Worldthe
ontained, and etn-
__ eternity.
Z%. But what is the Wifdo.m of
God.'Even th^too, and the. jfair,
and Blefifednefs, ahd every Vertue,and
Eternity. 1
\ 3?. Eternity therefore put into the
Matter Immortality and EverlalHng-
j:v nefs v lor the Generation of that de¬
pends upon Eternity, even as Eternity
■ » r- -f
■ ' \ . . 4 -fc • „ k > .

34* f ar Generation and Time, in

Heaven, and in Earth, are of a double
Nature j in Heaven they are unchange¬
able, and incorruptible •, but on Earth
they are changeable , and corrupti*

ZS- And ;th£ Soul of Eternity, is

God - and the Soul of the World, E*
ternity; and of the Earth, Heaven.
$,
6 God is in the Minde,the Mii^c
» r in
 n me?itus.
t ■> . — # . '
i 1 , ' ..-’’i .. i v . i \ .A J

in the Soul, the Soul in the Matter, all

« • f r-i • ~ ■ J

t
\ y- t

H 37- All this Univerfal Body, in

which are all Bodies is full of Soul,
the Soul full of Minde, the Minde full
of God.
38. For within he fills them, and -
% Without he contains them, quicknins
theUniverfe. , ‘ t' *
•»>

39* Without he quickens this per-

fedt living thing the World, and with-
^ in all living Creatures . v

tt 40. And above in Heaven he abides

in Identity or Selfnefs, but below up¬
on Earth he changeth Generation.
1 41- Eternity comprehendeth the
World, either by Necelfity, or Pro-
c|i vidence, or Nature. *

42. And if any man fhall think any

other thing, it is God that a&uateth,
J or opexateth this All.
43. But the operation or Act of
# God, is Power infuperable, to which — j.

I
none may compare anything, either
Humane or Divine. >1 /
■ 1 '

/ » 44-There-
/ ^
 V

hi The tenth Book of i

44. ThereforeO ^ermea, think
none of thefe things below, or the I
things above, in any wife like unto
God 5 for if thou doft, thou erreft j
from the Truth. I
45. For nothing can be like the un- j
like, and onely,and One $ nor mayeft
thou think, that he hath given of his
Power to any other thing.
46. For who after him can make
anything, either of Life, orlmmor-
- tality 5 of Change, or of Quality ?
and himfelf, what other thing fliould
he make <
47. For God is not idle, for then j
all things would be idle •, for all things 1,
are full of God. j
48^ But there is not any wherein |
the World, fuch a thing as Idlenefs; |
forldlenefs is a name that itnplieth a I
thing voyd or empty, both of a Doer, 1
and a thing done. I
49. But all things muft neceflarity 1
be made or done both always, and ac- I
cording to the nature of every placc> |
50. F<>r I
 ft mei
50. For he that maketh or doth, is
in ail things, yet not faftned of com¬
prehended in any thing % nor making
or doing one thing, but all things.
51. For being ana&ive or opera¬
ting Power, and fufficient of himfclf
for the things that are made , and the
things that are made, are under him.
52. Look upon, through me, the
World is fubjed to thy fight, and
underftand exadly the Beauty there¬
of.
i
53. A Body immarcefcible, then
the which, there is nothing more an
Cient, yet always vigorous and
young.
54. See alfo the feven Worlds fet
over us, adorned with an everiafting
Order, and filling Eternity, with a
different c our fe.
i 5 5. For all things are full of Light,
but the Fire is no where.
V

56. For the friendfliip, and coaif

mixture of contraries and unlike, be*
Came Light fiiining from the Ad or
Operation
 ' s «v> t •1

***. *

124. The tenth Book of

Operation of God, the Father of all
Good, the Brigce of all Order, and
the Ruler of the SeTO Worlds..
57. Look alfo upon the Moon, the
forerunner of them all,the Inftrumenc
of Nature, and which changeththe
Matter here below.
58. Behold the Earth, the middle
of the whole, the 'firm and liable
Foundation of the Fair World ,
the Feeder and Nurfe of Earthly
things.
59. Confider moreover, how great
the multitude -Is of immortal living
things, and of mortal ones alfo; and
fee the Moon going about in the midft
of both, to wit, of things immortal
and mortal. • >1
60• But all things are full of Soul,
and all things are propody moved by
it 5 fome things about the Heaven,
and fome things about the Earth, and
neither of thofe on the right hand to
the left *, nor thofe on the left hand to
the right 5 nor thofe things that are
' y . . above,
 I

rijmegijm. izf
" ’ > -. • > v *■

above, downward 5 northofe things

ll, that are below, upwards.
61. And that all thefe things are
made, O beloved l^erme*, thou needft
not learn of me.
62. For they aye Bodies, and have
a Soul, and are moved.
1 63 . And that all thefe (hould come
1 together into orie, it is impoflible
without fome thing, to gather them
a together.
64. Therefore there muft be fome
fuch ones, ^nd he altogether One.
6 5. For feeing that the motions are
divers, and many, and the Bodies not
alike, and yet one ordered fwiftnefs
among them all: It is impoflible there
ihould be two or moe Makers.
66. For one order is not kept by
many.
67. But in the weaker, there would
be jealoufie of the ftronger,and thence
alfo Contentions.
68. And if there were one Maker
of mutable and mortal living wights,
he
 n6 The tenth E ook of
he would defire alfo.to make immor¬
tal ones, as he chat were the Maker of
immortal ones, would do to make
mortal.
69. Moreover alfo, if there were
, two, the Matter being one, who
jfhould be chief, or have the difpofing
of the failure i '
70. Or if both of them, which of
them the greater part?
71. But thinks thus that every li¬
ving Body hath its confiftance of
Matter and Soul*, and of that which
is immortal,and that which is mortal,
and unreafonahle.
72. For all living Bodies have a
Soul *, and thofe things that are not
r v*: fJ ■ / J

living are onely matter by it felf.

73. And the Soul likcwife ofi
drawing neer her Maker, isthecaufe
of Life, and Being , and Beingthe
caufeof Life , is after a maner, the
caufe of immortal things.
74. How then are mortal wights,
 Hermes Trifmegijh
i . V* —

• — ' • ■ ( .. , * >

75. Or how cannot he make living

if:
wights that caufeth immortal things,
ana immortality <
56. That there is feme Body that
doth thefe things, it is apparent,, and
that he is alfo one, it is moft manifeft.
77. For there is one Soul,one Life,
and one Matter.
1 78. Who is this i who can it be,
other then the JDne d5oo i
7p. For whom elfe can it benefit,
to make living things, favconely God.
« o b % ■;
k? it _ •*
* r

80. There is therefore one God. .

81. For it is a ridiculous thing to
confefs the World to be one, one
Sun, one Moon, one Divinity; and
yet to have I know not how many
gods. 1i |
82. He therefore being One, doth
all things in many things.
83 . And what great thirig is it for
God, to make Life,and Soul, and Im¬
mortality,and Change, when thy felf
' . * ** . * . t-T ^ i *
it',. * i ft

84. For
 'N

84. For thou both {eeft, Tpcakcft,

and beared:, fmelled:, faded, an'd
touched, walked:, underftandeft, and
*9 ' ri t -i * - r

breathe It. ’>

85 And it is not one that Teeth,and

another that heareth, and another
that fpeaketh, and anotherthat touch*
ecfe , and another that fmelleth, and \ » i- ~ «■

that walkcth 5 and another

that underftandeth, and another that
‘^0nc t{Klt doth all thefe
,i t '■ i . 5 ■e* & »

O t ,/'■
86. Yet neither; can thefe things
poffibly be without God.
87. For as thou , if thou fliouldft.
ceaie from doing thefe things , wert
not a living wight 5 fo if God flihuld,;
ceafe ffom thole, he werehot (which
is not lawful , to fay ) any longer
i. 4 I
i ♦

1
88. .For if it be already
•3 • *, j
demon- ». ' - 3

nothing can be idle or

* 1
empty,how much more ma

$9» For if there be any thing which

»■ », 1 he
 ernes menItus.
he ot h not do, then is he (if it Were
to fay foj imperfed.
90. Whereas feeing he is not idle,
i but perfect $ certainly he doth all
•If w *• > • 7 ' v * » r | \

pi, ixow give thy felf unto me,, O

d^ermes, for a little while, thou (halt i-

1 the more eafily underhand* that it is

1 the necdfary work of God, that all
® things ihould be made or done, that
are done > or were once dontor ihatl
be done. . u . ' '-^
P92. And this, O beft Beloved, is

A
m,-
si;
1
And this is the JFair.
• f

■ . . ■
i
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■'
i i

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11
' *

ij' 94. And this is the <0030. l t i" 9 ■ t ■*-

li P). And this is (0ots* , .4 «J‘ ,1 .* .<• i / 4

i, 69. And if thou Wilt underhand

[(this by work alfo, mark what hap^
pens to
grate. ; , ; 5"
I 97. Arid yet this is not Hk&infcd
him *, for he is riot fenfible of plea¬
sure , for neither hath he ariy other
-workman, - vV
* K §8.Biie
&
I
 p8. But being himfelf the onely
Workman, heis always in the Work
himfelf being that which he doth or
maketh.
99. For all things, if they were
feparated from him, muft needs fall
ancf die, as there being no life in
f ' ■* V □ • . ' ■ , *?■

them.
- ioo. And again, if all things be
^ - living wights, both which are in Hea.
ven> upon Earth and that there
be one Life in all things whichis made
fey ^4? *nd that is God, then cer*
tainly all things are made, or done by
God. .• - -
/
i o i. Life is the union of the Minde,
and the Soul.
h death is not the deftrudii*
on of thofe things that were gathered
togethera buc a difTolving of the Uni*
on.
iaee i
is
of the the Sun, of the Sun
Man. r » . '■ i
;' x 04. But
 in mmtm. 121
/

\ ip4- But the people fay > Thfit

•4 "changing is Death,, becaufe the Body
is diflolyed , and the Life gpeth into
{} that which appeatech not. T
ttj 105 • By this dilcourfe, ft
i| nies, I affirm as thou hhrefeiBte
the World is changed, becaufeeyery
L day part thereof becomes '
t|. but that ic is never diffolved. • **»*»
f- f t

L ' 106,

rations, and Revolution is; a

But Qccultauomis .Renovation, ’t
' 107, .And the World being gall
formed, hath not? the forms,
it? but it felf chan^etn in it
* -• V 4 X
•> ■tn
•• V *

108. Seeing then the World is all

jyh'at-.pnjft he be ^hac maffe
it < for without form, he cannot be*
I IP#• And if he ,be # -formed, he
will be kept Ijke the Wo$ldMbue if
Ihehave but gnebum*.he^al-l be in
ithis regard le^ishenihe WorlcL
l i p. What do we it r ■ i v

K 2 is
is *? we will ndt raife any doUbtS by
our fpcech -? for nothing chat is doubt¬
ful concerning God, is yet known,
in. He hath'therefore one
iich is proper to him , which be-
caufe it is unbodily, is noefubjed to
the fight, and yet filews air forms by
the Bodies*
IIa. And do not wonder, if ’ 4
1 f A ~

incorruptible 3^3,
f 11 * For they are 1 ike the M.trgenis
of that Speech which is in writ ng*,
for they feem to be high and fwdlitp
but thr v. are by nature• fmooth ..anj
j
evert.
tf4. B.itUrtderfland well this
1 H y, more boldly,for it is more true :
a man cannot live without life, fo
f if her can God live ^ not
v OOdv :
«•

115-For this is, as it were, the Li

am to move all
th flgs, and quicken them. ; f|
il6. Butfomeof the things IbaVc
i<uA, muft have a particular exphe1*
cion 1
 ®jtion; Underftand then what I fay,
I 117. All things are in God, not as
Jl lying in a place $ for Place is both a
• Body, and immoveable, and thofc
i things that are there placed, have no
Ip motion.
[| n 8. For they lie otherwife in that
which is unbodily, then in the fan-
, Jt-afk, or to appearance.
j ii9. Consider him that contains all
I things, and underftand, that nothing
J is more capacious, then that which is
I* incorporeal, nothing more fwift, no-
’ thing more powerful*, but it is moft
capacious, moft fwift, and moft
Jftrong.
120. And judg of this by thy felf,
^command thy Soul to go imoHnuta,
II andfooner then thou canftbidit, it
1 will be there. 1
i -121. Bid it like wife pafs over the
*1 S)ccan, and fuddenly it will be there
•*

f, Not as palling from place to place,but

t 4l T (T /*! jC« 1 ¥ t « *• *«nl 1 KA

1
Ki yeni
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ven, and it will need no Wings, nei¬

ther fh ill any thing hinder it - not
the fire of the Sun, not the not
the turning of the Spheres, not the
bodies of any of the other Stars, but
tutting through ail, it will file up to
the Jaftj and furtheft Body. >,, jj
123. And if thou wilt even break
the whole, and fee thofe things that
are without the World (if there be
any thing without) thou may eft.
124. Behold how great power >
how great fwiftnefs thou haft / Canft
thou do all thefe things, and cannot
God? ’ "i j ■ *•>

125. After this maner therefore

contemplate God to have all the
whole World to himfelf, as it were
all thoughts, or intelle&ions. ,
126. If therefore thou wilt not e*
qual thy felf to God, thou canft not
Underftarid God. .
12 7. For the like is intelligible by
the like.
l iS. Increafe thy felf unto anim-
•r f meafurable
 but accourtreft thy felf immortal, and
J'tftat ■ jpHplHp
every Art, every Science, and the
maner and1 cuffoth
*■#, ■ i■
i' X'

129. Become hig

F lower then all deptns, co:
-i in thy felf, the qualities of all the
Iff Creatures, of the Fire, the Water,
the Dry, and Moyft $ and conceive
likewife, that thou carift at once b©
in in
izo. at once
, thy felf, not yet begotten in the
IlfWomb, young, old, to be dead, the
jd things after death, and all thefe toge-
Ither.v as alfo, times, places,
t, [
r *
:es, auanuties, or
-.,i

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not y et underhand G^d.

iji. But if thou ihut up thy Soul 1

| - K 4 - in
 The tenth Book of
k \ / ‘ : ~ -....

|n the Body, and abufe it, and fayy {

/ underhand nothing, I can do nothing,
I am afraid of the Sea , I cannot
climb up into Heaven, I know not
who I am , I cannot tell what I Jhall
be; what haft thou to do with God t
for thou canft underftand none of
thofe Fair and Good things • be a
lover of the Body, and Evil.
132. For it is thegreateft evil, not
to know God. *
133. But to be able to know, and
to will, and to hope, is the ftraigl..
way, and Divine way, proper to the
Good; and it will every where meet
thee, and every where be feen of
1 y and cafie, when thou doft
not expedfc or look for it: It will meet
thee, waking, fleeping, failing, travel*
ing by night, by day, when thou
/ Fpeakeft, and when thou keepeft
filence. ’ r ^ 1 % \3

^34: ?or there is nothing which is

not the Image of God.
J35vAnd yet thou fay eft, God is
t
 invisible, but be advifed , for who is
I more manifeft, then He.
rut r' _ — 1 - . _ r
136. For therefore hath he
g. all things , that thou by all things
mayeft|(ee him.
137. This is the Good of
this is his Vertue, to appear, and to
' be feen mall things.
I 138. There is nothing invifible, no
* not of thofe things that are incorpo¬
real. * t
v + >*»

139. The Minde is feen in Under-

ftanding, and God is feen in doing or
pi making.
■ • •, ,0 'y '

140. Let thefe things thus

be made manifeft unto thee, 0%xiU

i4i. Underftand in like maner, all

other things by thy felf, and thou
lhalt not be deceived.

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the Common Minde to Tat.

A-'

| He Minde, O Call's of the

very Edence of God, if
yet there be any Edence
i€9&dP of God.
2. What kindeof Ef*
fence that is?, he alone knows himfelf
exactly.
3- The Minde therefore is not cut
off, or divided from the edentiality of
God,
 rt men tm.
|k i ■ * •

God, but united as the light of the

SI Sun.
4. And this Minde in men, is God,
and therefore are fome m|n Divine,
and there Humanity is neer Divinity.

f
5. For the good 2Demott called the
Gods immortal men, and men mortal
|T'
Gods. . „ V . . • ■ , '"\ '• - . \ * r' ■' - ■ 6’ ; S *- ,--T • > v

[ 6. But in the bruit Beafts, orunrea*

[fonable living wights , the Minde is
their Nature.
j 7. For where there is a Soul, there
is the Minde •, as where there is Life,
t there is alfo a Soul. ?
' 8. In living Creatures therefore #
that are. without Keafon, the Soul is
(jl Lite, voyd of the operations of the
7) Minde. jjllHfiB * A'

I 9. For the Minde is the

of the Souls of men, and worketh to
.! the proper Good.
j. 10. And in unreafonable things it
fjco-operateth with the Nature of eve-
i ry one of them, but in men it worketh
I inf • A .. 1 « • ^

* %
>9
11. For
 i x. For the Soul being m the Body,
is ftraight way made Evil by Sorrow,
and Grief, and Pleafure or Delight.
12. For^jiief and Pleafure, flow
like Juices from the compound Body,
whereinto, when the Soul entereth,
ordefeendeth , fhe is moyftened and
tin&ed with them*
13. As many Souls therefore, as
the Minde governed! or over* ruleth,
to them it flic ws its own Light, re lift¬
ing their prepoiTcffions or prefumpti- J
QHlS* «' » Vr ■ "

14. As a good Phyfitian grieveth

the Body , prepofTeffed of adifeafe,
by burning or launcing it for healths
fake. I
15. After the fame maner alfo, the
Minde grieveth the Soul, by drawing
it out of Pleafure, from w he nee every
difeafe of the Soul proceeded!.
16. But the great Difcatc <>f the
Soul is becaufe'hhar. opn.iafl
folioweth to all Evil, and no Good- _
17. Therefoie the Mmde ref hijack
' ^ • p,ocure.il
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menm. 115
ti
to the Soul ^ as a
5a i. Phyfitian health to the Bodyi
l) 18. But as many Souls of men, aS
|| do not admit or entertain the Minde
I for their Governor, do fulfer the fame
thing that the Soul of unreafonabk
living things.
I 19. For the Soul being aCc#e?crafc|
with them, permits or leaves them to
I their contupi fee nets, ^hereunto they
, J- ' * 4t

1 a re carried by the torrent

petite, and fo tend to brutilhnefs. H
20. And as bruit Beads, they are
H <angry without reafon> and they defire
Iwuhout reafon, • and never ceafc, nor
ate fansfied with cvil.:
i it. F ir unreafonable Angers and
res j are the mod exceeding E-

r: 22 /tno inererore hath God fet

ji the Minde over thefe, as a Revenger
y | • and Reprover of them.
, 23. 2Dsf. Here, O Fatheri i
(j courfc of Fate or Dediay? whichthou
maded: to rne/is in ger to be over¬
v thrown
1 j
••

tllT
 I

thrownFor if it be fatal rorany man

to commit ^Duilerr or j^amieBg, or do
any evil , he is punifhed a lib,, though
he of necdfity do the work of Fate
«or pefiinyc’
24. ^etm. All things, O Son, are
the work of Fate, and without it, can
no bodily thing, either Good or Evil
r
be done.
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25. For it is decreed by Fate, that

/ he that doth any evil,lhould alfo fuffer
for it.
•• - - -' ■ ! ✓

94 • And therefore he doth it, that

he may fuffer that which he fuffereth,
becaufe he did it.
27. But for theprefent let alone that
fpeech, concerning Evil and Fate,
for at other times we have fpoken
of it.
2'B. Now our difeourfe is about die
Minde, and what it can do, and how
it differs, and is in men fucha one>but
in bruit Beafts changed.
29. And again, in bruit Beafts it is
not beneficial, but in men by quench-
r ing 1,
 njmegijtiu. 143

ing both their Anger and Coneupi-

fccnces.
i S0- And of men thou mufl: under-
V fome to be rational or govern¬
ed by reafon, and {bine irrational.
31. But all men are fub je^l to Fate,
and to Generation, and Change • for
L“r‘ are the beginning and <?nd o£
orDeftiny,
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11
37. Andallmen
that are decreed by Fate, f > < ;

33 . But rational men, over whom,

lit fas we laid,/the Minde bears rule, do
'not fuller like unto other men5 but
being free from vicioufnefs,and being
not evil, they doFuffer evil.
34. Cat. How fayeft thou this a-
A gain Father i An Poulterer, is he not
(t evil < a is he not evil i and
fo all others.
v 35- Butthe rational man, O
Son, will not fuifer for Adultery, but
the Adulterer, nor for Mm'ther,but
2s the Murtherer.
;l 36. And,it is impoilible to efcape
I ■ the
the Quality of Change, as of Gene¬
ration, but the Vicioufnefs, he that
hath the Minde, niay efcape. _
27. And therefore, O Son, I have
Always heard the good Vernon fay,
and if he had delivered it in Writings
he had much profited all mankinde:
for he atone, O Son, as the firft born,
God, feeing all things, truly fpate
Divine words. I have heard him fay
fomerimes, ail things arc onrfmng>
tTpctiiUp'IrtfcUigtMe Wmm Natali'
e(pec'2il'’ intfUigfijie denies arc cute- ' 1
3S. We live in Power, in Adi, and
' i Eternity. . t
39. Therefore a’good Minde , i|
that which the Soul of him is.
• 40. And if this be fo, then no intel¬
ligible thing differs fromi
things. . •> . , . ' . Ill
41. As therefofe.it is poflible, that
thcMiiide, the Prince of all things $
fo likewife, that the Soul that is orj
God, can do what foe ver it will-
42. But underftand thou well; wr
• T . - . this
 this Difcourfc I have made to the
Queftion which thou askeft of me be¬
fore, I mean concerning Fate and the
[inde. v ,
eg. Fifft, if, 0 Son, thouilialt dili¬
gently withdraw thy felf from all
Contentious fpeeches,thou fhalt finde
it|that iri Truth, the Minde, the Soul of
-Cod bears rule over all things, both
Jlpver Fate, and Law, and all other

J 44. And nothing is iinpoflible to

ghirn, no not of the things that are of
-Fate.
45. Therefore, though the Soul of
nan be above it, let it not negle<d the
hings that happen to be under
“fate?
•J 4<5. And thefe thus far, were the
Excellent fayings of the good jBDfi
non* ■ \
^ 47. SCaf. Mofl divinely fpoken, O
leather, and truly and profitably, yef
:lear this one thing unto me.
48. Thou fayeft,that in bruit Beads
f L the
the Minde worketh or a&eth after the
maner of Nature , co-operating alfo
with their ( impetus j. inclinati*
ons.
4^. Now the impetuous inclinati.
ons of bruit Bcafts, as I conceive, are
Paflions. If therefore the Minde do,
co-operate with thefe impetuous In¬
clinations, and that they are the Paf-
{ions in bruit Beafts, certainly the
Minde is alfo a Paflion, conforming it
felf to Paflions, t vM
50 ^erm, Well done Son, thou
askeft nobly, and yet it is juft that I
iliould anfwer thee.
*7^ ^ /^v f f # - ~ \ if m 1 ^ y * - ** ^

51. All incorporeal things, O Son,,

that are in the Body,are paffible, nay,
they are properly Paflions.
S 2. Everv rhincr thit mrvir*»rH ic in*

■ ■ ' r?
u X4 IU4A111^ tUdi IS
is a iJody • and it is moved into the
Jodies by the Minde .* Now Motion
is Paflion, and there they both fuller;
which moveth, as that
as well "that which
ruleth,
1

I ' «
j3 as mat wmcn is
53 . But being freed from the Body,
it is r-'s,1PaiTiofri' vu
54. But efpccially, O Son, there is
)thins imbaifible, but all thihp*1 aW
are
lDie.
55 But Paflion differs from that1
is tfaffible 5 for that

Bodies alio of themfelves

J ■_L

are moved 5 ahd whidh fba^r

l| it be, it is a Paflion.
57* But incorporeal things ddal-
i or'Work,
!il
5 8. Let ndt therefore thd a
ons or names trouble thee,
f|and Paflion are the fame thing, but*
11 that it is notgtievbus to ufe the mo9e ’

11 5P. %at O
I livered this D/frourfe rnoft
,!? 66. f?erm. Confider this alfo"
".That God •hath'fftelvW:
' . L a
 tie
. upon manabove all other living
things, thefe two, to wit, Mindeand
or Reafon, aequal to itn«*
*'~~z x * 7 ,' . - * V ,.v

61. Thefe ifany man ufe,or Iraploy

upon what he ought, he fhall differ
nothing from the Immortals.
£2. Yea rather going out of the
Body, he fhall be guided and led by
them, both into the Quiet and Society
of the Gods, and blefled Ones.
■?. 4 t£v*ilr■ •

63. 2Cat Do not other living Crea¬

tures ufe Speech, Q Father?
64. No* Son> but onely
Voyce 5 now Speech and Voyce do
differ exceeding much; for Speech is
common co all men > buc Voyce is
proper unto every kinde of living
thln§‘
65. Xat Yea, but the Speech of
men is different, O Father5 every man
according to his Nation.
It is true,O Son,theydo
differ: Yet as man is one,fois Speech
one alfo; and it is interpreted and
' v ' found
1
1 ^ (nf . t' 4 t * •», V A -7 f • **

‘ found the fame, both in Gsrpf, pei HaL

l! and (Eirtbce. (
6jr But thou feemeft unto me, Son,
to be ignorant of the Vercue.or Pow-
ter.
68. For the bl'efled God, the good

Vernon faid or commanded the Soul

to be in the Body, the Minde, -in the
ifc Soul, {ao^pv) the Word, or Speech, or
a Reafon in the Minde, and the Minde
Jn God, and that God is the Father of
them all.
69. Therefore the Word is the .
Image of the Minde, and the Minde
(of God , and the Body of the
J 2nd the J&ea of the SouL
f 7°- Therefore of the Matter, the
fubtileft or fmalleft part is Air, of the /v ,
Air the Soul, of the Soul the Minde,>
of the Minde God. -j ' 1 . •. • 5

71. And God is about all things,

and through ail things, but the Minde
I about rhe Soul, the Soul about the
\
1 Air,. ahd the Air about the Matter.
72. But Ncceffity, and Providence,-
L 3 and
 . , a .* , » , ,
•nth B
'I 4> V . „ „

• \f. '*'■ * ** r N f • 4 f

and Nature, are the Organs or Inftru-

ments of the World, and of the Or¬
der of Matter. ,* if ; | .■■/- •' * __

73 For of thofe things that are in¬

telligible,every one is i
or them is
•V j > '* S I6*. « «*t

74. But #1 ’ * i ,f 'i,— — n?-.^ •

or univerfe, every one is many things.

75. For the Bodies that are put to¬
gether, and that have, and make their
changes into other, having this Iden¬
tity, do always faveandprefervethc
uncorru^io^ of the Identity.
76. But in eyery one of the com¬
pound Bodies, there is a number.
77. For without t^umberit is on-.,
poffible there fliould be confidence
or conftitution, or compofition. or
iution: ,J"h ■
78. rBut Unities do
’Vreafe ISuflibcrs, and again being
diflblvcd, come into themfelves.
79- And the Matter is One.
8p. But this whole World, the
|rcat God, and the Image of the
1 Greater,
 I ^Greater, and united unto him , and
conferving the Order, and Will of the
j§ Father, is the fulnefs of Iafe* HflH
8 i. And there is nothing therein *
through all the Eternity ofthe Revo
|i lutions, neither of the whole, nor
jjjfoF the parts which doth not live.
ju'v 82. For there is nothing dead, that
cither hath been, or is, or ihall be in
the World.
83. For the Father would have it a$
long as it lafts,to be a living thing*,ana
therefore it muft needs be God alfb.
84. How therefore, O Son, can
there be in God, in the Image of the
Univerfe, in the fulnefs of Life, any
[dead things <
85. For dying is corruption, aftd
corruption is deftru&ion.
L 86. How then can any part of the
incorruptible be corrupted, or

87. Mat. Therefore, O Father, do 1

not igsin
j though they be parts thereof. ;
I' L 4 88.
 I

88. Be wary in thy Speech

p Son, and not deceived in the names
pf things.
89* Bor they do not die, O Son,
but as compound Bodies they are dif-
*
folyed.
y 1 r f ^ ^ t f(,

90. But difTolution is not deathjand

they are diColved, not that they may
be deftroyed, but that they may be
made hew.
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91. %at. What then is the operati¬

on of Life ? Is it not Motion j?
92. |9erm. And what is there in the
World unmoveable ? Nothing at all,
O Son. & ’
93. .Why, doth not the Earth
:em unmoveable to thee, O Father i
94/ No,but fubjedtto many
motions, though after a maner, it a-
* lone be liable'.
.C ..
95• What a ridiculous thing it
V ^
Were, that the N urfe of all things
mould be unmoveable, which beaieih
and bringeth forth all things 'i
$6. For it is impoffible, that any
,; thing
 me?urns.
itf thing that bringeth forth, fliould bring
| forth without Motion.
97. And a ridiculous queftion it is.
Whether the fourth part of the whole,
. t
be idle: For the word immoveable,
k ^ i# . *

,, or without Motion, fignifies nothing

,f die, but idlenefs. .
98. Know generally, O Son, That
fe.
whatfoever is in the World, is moved
.. * \ . N r .V *

either according to Augmentation or

Diminution.
- - j •; •.

99. But that which is movedjiveth

* “ ■ _ . .. 1 ■ j

alfo,yet it is not necdlary,that a living

thing fliould be or continue the fame.
100. For while the whole World
is together, it is unchangeable,© Son,
but all the parts thereof are change¬
:d able.
101. vYet nothing is corrupted or
deftroyed, and quite aboliflied , but
. the names trouble men.",
I 102. For Generation is not Life,
but Senfe 5 neither is Change Death,
I hut Forgetfulnefs, or rather Occuka-
tion, and lying hid. v
\
Or
 I
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1^4. The eleventh Book of

Or better thus,
10 2. generation is not a £ reafton
at &tfe, bafa pjotirttion of things f0
anb malting them mantfefi. ^eitbet is
Change 2>eatf?, but an ccmlfafton oj fjiafng
af that tofyief) toas.
io$. Thefe things being fo, all
things are Immortal, Matter, Life,
Spirit, Soul, Minde, whereof every j
living th ing confifteth. ]
f Io4* Ev£ry living thing therefore,
is Immortal, becaufe of the Minde,
but especially Man, who both re-
ceiveth God, and converfeth with
him. I
t o5* Eor with this living wight a*
lone is God familiar^ in the night by
dreams, in the day by Symbols or '
Signes. • I
10(5. And by all things doth he i
foretel him of tilings to come, by a
Birds, by Fowls, by the Spirit, or 1
Wmd, and by an Oke.
107.' Wherefore alfo Man profefs-
€th to know things that have been, j
v x things
 rumen tM. l«.
k'"- i - 1 k v- •

things that are puefent, and things to

come.
? 108. Gonfider this alfo, Q Son,
That every other living Creature go-
eth upon one part of cheWorld,Swim-
ing things in the Water, Land wights
upon the Earth , Flying Fowls in the
tilAir. B»- •« v j ••••*• *•

#( i£>9- But Man ufeth all thefe, the

Earth, the Water, the Air, and the I V

fe: Fire, nay, ‘ ‘

;|yen by his Senfe.
y no. But God is both about all
things, and through all things; lor
he is both A£t and Power.
I * ■ i * *• 1 ■ ■ ~ ■■ ■ \

f iii. Anditisnohardthihg,0 Son,

to underhand God,
!! 112. And if thou wilt alfo fee him,
look upon the Neceffity of things that,
(appear, and the Providence o'*
that have been, and are done.
I ti3v See the Matter being moft
[full of Life, and fo great a God
moved with all Good, and Fair, both
Gods, and %>m om, and Men.
t .
1 i 14.
 V

114. • %#t. But thefe, O Father

are wholly Adis, or Operations.
115. ^erm. If they be therefore
wholly Ads or Operations, O Son,
by whom are they aded or operated
but by God? *
, 116 ■ Or ait thou ignorant, that as
the parts of the World, are Heaven,
and Earth, and Water, and Air|j
after the fame maner the Members of
God, are Life, and Immortality, and
Eternity, and Spirit, and Neceflity, j
and Providence, and Nature, and
Soul, and Minde, and the Continu¬
ance or Perfeveranee of all thefe
which is called Good. I
117. And there is not any thing of j
all that hath been, and all that is, j
where God is not.
118. Cat. What, in the Matter, 0
Father {
t ip. The Matter,Son, wHaci
isat without God , that thoufhouldft
aferibe a proper place to it *- 1 ::w
120. Or what doft thou think it to j
be '
 f '
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njmegijtm, 157
%t ? perad venture fome heap that is
l8lnOt actuated or operated.
4; 121. But if it be aduatedpby wh6^f
) ()is it aduated tf for we have faid, that
j-Ads, or Operations, are the parts of
God; ... - *

4 122. By whom are all living things

tiquickned «r and the Immortal, by
jjjwhom are they immortalized t the
.things that are changeable, by whom
s,
are they changed. \ ,
! 123. Whether thou fpeak of Mat¬
ter, or Body, or Ellence, know that
%11 thefe are ads of God.
124. And that the Ad of Matter is
3 materiality, and of the Bodies cor-
porality, and of Effence eflfentiality 5
f%nd this is God the whole.
125. And in the whole, there is no¬ \-
y
thing that is not Godi
1 Mr
j
| 12$. Wherefore about God, there
is neither Greatnefs, Place, Quality^
figure, or Time* for he is All, and
(the All, through all, and about
all. Mb** ' \ - .
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127. This
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nor vifible, nor meafurable, norex-

tenfibie, nor like any other body.,,
4. ' For it is neither Fire, nor Water,*
nor Air, nor Wind> but all thefe
things are of him 5 for being Good,
he hath dedicated that name unto
himfelf alone.
5. But he would alfo adorn the
Earth, but with the Ornament of a
Divine Body.
6. And he fent Man an Immortal,
^ r * ig* , 1

and a Mortal wight.

7. And Man had more then all
living Creatures, and the World $
bccaufe of his Speech, and Minde. 1
S. For Man became the fpe&ator
of the Works of God , and wonder¬
ed, and acknowledged the Maker.
9. For he divided Speech among
all men, but not Minde , and yet he
envied not any * for Envy comes not
thither, but is of abode here below in.
the Souls of men, that have not the
Minde. 1
*o. SE*f, But wherefore, Father,
! did
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o|| did not God diftribute theMinde to ,> / * ft >-

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: all men '

|| ii. Becaufe it _
d O Son,to fee that in t he piddle among
i; all fouls, as a reward to ftrive for.
12 . scat. And where hath he fet it i
!otll 13. &m. Filling a
Bowl therewith, he lent it; down,
‘ giving alfo a Cryeror Proclaimer.
J 14. And he commanded him to pro-’
'claim thefe things to the fouls of men*
j 15; Dip and waih thy (elf, thou that'
Jart able in this Cup or Bowl : Thou
that beleeveft, that thou flialt return
to him that lent this Cup *, thou that
cknowledgeft whereunto thou were
'"made.
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[ill 16. As many therefore as under¬

stood the Proclamation, and were,
^baptized or dowfed into the Minde,
• thefe were made partakers of Know*
jjjcdgvand became perfect men, re-)3
giving theMinde, :
17. But as many as miffed of the
^Proclamation, they received Speech,
M but
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I
but not Minde 5 being ignorant where-
unto they were made, or by whom.
18. But their Senfes are juft like to
id having their temper
m Anger ana Wrath, they do not ad¬
mire the things Worthy of looking on.
But wholly addi&ed to the
10.
pleafures and defires of the Bodies,
they belecVe that man was made for
them.
2©. Biit as many as partaked of the
gift of God 5 thefe, O SCat, in com-
• I parifon of their works, are rather im¬
I mortal then mortal men. rl
21. Comprehending all things in
* J r which are upon Earth,
which are in Heaven, and if there be
any thing above Heaven.
22. And lifting up themfelvcs fo
n' I high, they fee the Good •, and feeing
Is-

j it,they account it a miferable calamity

to make their abode here.
23* And defpifing all things bodily
and unbodily, they make haft to the
5/
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inus, OSTaf, is the__0
%si.
of the Minde, the beholding of Di¬
vine things 5 and the Underftanding
of God, the Cup it felf being Divine.
25. 2Dat. And I, O Father, would
! be* * * * * * * • '•

body, O Son, thou canft not

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have the Minde, and having the

j Minde, thou (halt alfo partake the
1 Knowledg or Science.
27. %at How incaneft thou that,
O Father i
til 28. ^crm. Becaufe it is impoffible,'
» O Son, to be
Mortal and Divine.
ip, h
e things that are, / w j * ' C

two Bodies , and things incorporeal,

| wherein is the Mortal and the Divine,'
:c the Ele&i<j)n or Choice of either is
left to him that will chufe: For no
: Rian can chufe both.jMHfjH^HM
j|^30 , ___
| is made, the other being diminiiied
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or overcome, magnifiech the a& and

operation of the other.
31; The choice of the better there¬
fore , is not ondy belt for him that
chufeth it, by deifying a man ; butit
alfo fhewech Piety and Religion to¬
wards God. m;,? 1
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I
32. But the choice of the worfe
dcftroyes a man, but doth nothing
againft God 5 fave that as pomps or
pageants, when they come abroad,
cannot do any thing chemfelves but
hinder * after the fame maner alfo do
thefe make pcmps or pageants in the
World, being feduced by the plea-
•/ furesof the Body. !
33. Thefe things being fo, OCsf,
that things have been, and are fo plen-
< teoufly miniftred to us from God y let
them proceed alfo from us, without
any fcarcity or fparing.
34- For God is innocent or guiltlefs, \
but we are thecaufesof Evil, prcier-
ing them before the Good.
■1$• Thou ieeft, O Son, how many
/ Bodies
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I
Bodies we muft go beyond, and how
many Quiers of ^Demons, and what
continuity and couiTes of Stars, that
we may make haft to the One, and
2n
onely God.
t|r 36. For the Good is not to be tran-
fcended, it is unbounded and infinite 5
tit l unto it felf without beginning, but
fjl rmIIT
unto us, Teeming to have a beginning,
even our knowledg of it.
KM 37. For cur knowledg is not the
beginning of it, but fhe ws us the be¬
ginning of its being known unto us.
38. Let us therefore lay hold of the
beginning , and we fhall quickly go
through all things.
39. It is indeed a difficult thing, to
leave thofe things that are accuftom«*
able, and prefent, and turn us to thofe
sf
i things that are ancient, and according
to the original.
40. For thefe things that appear,de-
IV
light us, but wake the things that ap¬
pear not, hard to bcleeve, cj t§e things
appeal: net, are |>srts
, M 3 41. The
 of
41. T he things raoft apparent are
Evil, but the Good is fecret, or hid
in, or to the things that appear ? for it
hath neither Form nor Figure.
42. For this caufe it is like to it felf,
but unlike every thing el fe 5 for it is
impoflible,that any thing incorporeal,
Ihould be made known, or appear to
a Body. / ’i
43. For this is the difference be¬
tween the like and the unlike - and the
unlike wanteth always fomewhat of
the like.
44. For the Unity, Beginning, and
ings, as being the Root
and Beginning. 1 - . il
45. Nothing is without a begin-
ing, but the Beginning is of nothing,
but of it felf ; for it is the Beginning
of all other things. \
46. Therefore it is, feeing it is not
From another beginning.
.47- Unity therefore being the Be-
ginning, containeth every number?

c.
 begetteth cwiy numuv*,
% begotten of no other number,
48. Every thing that is begotten
it ' for made; is imperfed, and maybe
I!
divided, increafed, diminiKhed,
49. But to the perfed, there hap-.
peneth none of thefe.
50. And that which is increafed, is
increafed by Unity, but is confumed
m and vaniflied through weaknefs,being
not able to receive the Unity.
!(# 51. This Image of God, have!
deferibed to thee, O %(&, as well as
% , I could ^ which if thou do diligendy
!« confider, and view by the eyes oh thy
minde, and heart, beleeve me, Spns
ii thou {halt finde the way to the things
above, or rather the Im
^>v‘j
lead thee, «?

52. But the fpedlacle or m

»(f this peculiar and propehj.

can fee, and behold it , it
and draws unto it, as; * T 1

Loadftone doth Iron,

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Efterday, <3fdeptns , I
delivered a perfed Dif~
courfe 5 but. now I
it necefTary, in
to difpiue

?* 20 Undemanding
he one is raa-

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K 3. But unto me1, they appear to be
both one, or united, and not divided
in men, I mean.
4. Fqr in other living Creatures,
?nfe is uniied unto Nature, but in
men to UnderBanding.
| 5. But theMinde differs from Un-
I demanding, as much as God from
*i4 Divinity, s _ /: ; !
'I I , ^ Jor Divinityls (v'™) from or un-
JlUer God, and UnderBanding from.
■Khe Minde , being the lifter of the
Word or Speech, and they the Inftru-
’;|ments one of another.
1" 7- For neither is the Word pro¬
nounced without UnderBanding, nei-
ther is UnderBanding manifefted
[fei; without the Word.
inn . • *

(l 8. Therefore Senfe and Under*

|l Banding do both Bow together into a
;oi| m?n > as if they were infolded one
within another.
Jjff 9\ For neither is it poflible without
,;i Senfe to UnderBand, nor can vye have
Scrjfe vyithout UnderBanding.
. 10 And
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ib. And yet it is poflfible (foj f&cffate

being) that the Underftanding may
underftand without Senfe , as they
that fantafie Vifions in their Dreams.
11. But it Teems unto me, that both
the operations are in the Vifions of
Dreams, and that the Senfe is ftirred
up out of fleep, unto awaking.f
'.t
12. For man is divided into a Body
and a Soul* when both parts of the
Senfe accord one with another, then (i
is the Underftanding childed, or
brought forth by the Minde pro¬
nounced. i
13 . For the Minde brings forth all
Intelle<SUon$ or Underftandings ;
Good ones, when it rcceiveth good
Seed from God ^ and the contrary,
when it receives them from Devils. ■
14. For there is no part of the
World voyd of the Devil, which en¬
tering in privately, fowed the feed of
his own proper operation 5 and the
Minde did; make pregnant, or did
bring forth that which was fovvn,
 \
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#DaUcric0 , ^uctfjcrs, a£ pa*
rents, g>acdle&ge0, imptetrcs, Strang*
lit’ lings, throwing down headlong, and
all other things which are the works
of evil SDemons.
115. And the Seeds of God are few
;lc« but Great, and Fair, and Good, Ver- \
Itue,and Temperance, and Piety.
ti! 16. And the Piety is the Knowledg
of God , whom whofbeverknoweth
jjbeing full of all good things, hath
iiljDivine U-nderftanding, and not like
f' a

fc 17. And therefore they that have

|ffSt|that Knowledg ~ '
^multitude, nor..wv W1W1J1
jv((i;but they feem to be mad, and to move
lCflhlaughter,
■ ~s . " hated
,r and, defpifed,
r— and
many times alfo murtherecL
18. For we have already faid. That
gm
[ her own region.
I 2& hor her region is the Eartli
i; ' and not the World,as fome will fome-
iti times fay, Blafpheming. i ;
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20. But the godly or God-worfliip-
ing Man laying hold on Knowledg,
will defpife or tread under all thefe
things ; for though they be evil to
other men, yet to him all things are
good.
21. And upon mature confiderati-
on, he refers all things to Knowledge
and that which is moft to be wondred
at, he alone makes evil things good.
22. But I return again to my Dif-
courfeof Senfe.
23. It is therefore a thing proper to
Man, to communicate and conjoyn
Senfe and Underflanding. ^
24. But every man, as I faid before,
doth not enjoy U.nderftanding 5 for
one man is material, another eflen*
tial.
25. And he that is material with
wickednefs, as I (aid, received from
the Devils the Seed of Underftand*
ing *, but they that are with the Good
eflentially, are faved with God. '■
26. For God is the Workman of
all
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all things ♦, and when he worketh, he

ufeth Nature.
27. He maketh all things good like
himfelf. S 6
: 28. But ings that are
good, are intheufeof Operation un¬
lawful. • c
•I 29. For the Motion of the World
birring up Generations, makes Quali¬
fies v infecting fome with evilnefs,and
purifying fome with good.
I 30. And the World, Sfrieptus, hath
fa peculiar Senfe and Underftanding,
(not like to Mans, nor fo various or
manifold, but a better and more
fiimple.
31. For the Senfe and Undemand¬
ing of the World is One, in that it
makes all things, and unmakes them
again into it felf- for it is the Organ
for Inftrumentof the Will of God.
I 32. And it is fo organized or fram¬
ed, and made for an Inftrument by
[God ; that receiving all Seeds into it
I fHf from God, and keeping them in
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itfelf, it maketb ail things effe&ually,

and difMving them, reneweth all
things. / ’ , I
33. And therefore like a good Hus¬
band- man of Life, when things are
diflolved or loofened, he affords by
the catting of Seed, renovation to all
things that grow.
34. There is nothing that it (the
WorldJ doth not beget or bring forth
alive j and by its Motion, it makes all
things alive.
34. And |t Is at once,both the Place
and the Workman of Life. ■ ■ 'Si

36. But the Bodies are from the

Matter, in a different maner* for fome
are of the Earth, fome of Water,
fome of Air, fome of Fire, and all
are compounded, but fome are more
compounded, and fome are more lira-
Pie.
37* They that are compounded,aie
the heavier, and they that are lefs, are
the higher. ( p ty
38. And the fwiftnefs of the Mod-
- on
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^ 1
.
on of the World, makes the varieties
; of the Qualities of Generation; for
f the fpiration or influence, beingmoft
I frequent > extcndeth unto the Bodies
| qualities, with one fulnefs, which is
I of Life.
l 39‘ Therefore, God is the Father
' of the World, but the World is the
il Father of things in the World.
I 40;» And the World is the Son of
i God, but things in the World are the
'Sons of the World.
,41. And therefore it is, well called
the World, that is an Orna-
jment, becaufe it adorneth and beauti-
fifth all things with the variety of
I Generation, and indeficiency of Life,
.which the unweariednefs of Operati-
’on , and the fwifenefs of NecefTity,
‘ with the mingling of Elements, and’
jpe order of things done,
I 42. Therefore it is neceflarily, and
'properly called the World.
II ^* For oi^ hving things, both
the Senfe, and the Undemanding,
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cometh into them from without, in-

fpired by that which compafleth
them about, and continued! them. !
44. And the World receiving it
6nce from God affoon as it was made,
hath it ft ill, to&at mtit on ejjao.
45. But God is not as it fee ms to
In
1 1
fome who Blafpbemethrough,fuper-
ftition, without Senfe, and without
Minde, or Underftandiog.
46. For all things that are, O Sfclt*
plus, are in God, and made by him,
and depend of him , fome working
by Bodies, fome moving by a Soul¬
like Etfence,' fome quickning by a
Spirit* and fome receiving the things
that are weary, and all very fitly.
47. Or rather, I fay, that he hath
them not, but I declare the Truth 3
ijetsall tijings, not receiving them from
without, blit exhibiting them out¬
wardly , :v. _ j
48. And this is the Senfe and Under-
r >
Handing of God, to move all things
always. . ,
4g. And
 4P. Ana cnere fhall never be any
■time, when any of thole things that
, are^ ihall fail or b& wanting,
' 50. When I fay the things that ace;
i I mean God 5 for the things that ate,
lit God hath 5\ and neither is there anv

thing without hjpt, nor he wichoiK

■any thing.
51. Thefe things, O afclspias, wilt
appear to be true, if thou underftand
them 5; but. ■' U ils I
not, incredible;
m 52* For to underftand , is to be-
eve; but not tobeleew, is not to
nderftand: For my fpeech or words
reach not unto the Truth, but the
;Minde is great , and being led or con¬
duced for a while by Speech, is able
|o attain to the Truth.
“ Sp And underftanding ail things
round about, and finding them con¬
sonant, and agreeable to thofe things
that were delivered, and interrupted
i>y Speech, beleeveth 5 and in that
|ood belief, reftefli.
B H 54, T©
 Book, &c.
54. To them therefore that under-

of God, they* * are credible 5 but to

them that underftandjtj^m not, in
credible.
5?
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cures, partake not of Science, or Ait,
becaufe they come fhort of Rea-
ion.
2. 10erm, It muft needs be fo
Son*,. ff. '
3. Cat1 Why then, 0 Father, do
we fee fome unreafonable living Crea¬
tures ufe both Science and Art < as the
ptfnttrcs trcafure up for themfelves
food againft the Winter,and Fowls of
the Air like wife make them Nefts,and
four-footed Beafts know their own
Dens.
4. Thefe things they do, O Son,
not by Science Or Art,but by Nature 5
" fbr Science or Art ' are things that are
‘ taught, but none of thefe bruit Be *
ate taught any of thefe things.
5. But thefe things being Natural
I unto them, are wrought by/Nature,
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fit ' A ,. rr.--Af
n *-« —1
1
Science * 00
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:n unto all, out unto

As men ate' Mufitian^, but not
s •
all y-rteithet tire ^ll Archers, pi: Huntf
men, or the reft, but fome of their
. s n have
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ing of Science or Arc, V\
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7. After the fame maner alfo,' if

Fome pifmtres did fo, and fome not,
u thou mighteft well fay, they gather
their Food according to Science and
EL -■ -0 -* •
.. Art. ■" :■■■■.
% 8. But being they are all led by
• Nature, to the fame thing, even
againft their wills, it is manifeft
they do not do it by Science or
Art.
9. For Operations, O S£af, being
i,i unbodily, are in Bodies, and work by
iff Bodies. .
10. Wherefore, O SCaf, in as much
as they are unbodily, thou muft needs
jjf fay they are immortal.
J 11. Butin as much as they can-
not ad without Bodies, I fay, they
,( are always in a Body. ;(
12. For thofe things that arc
to any thing , or for the caufc of
any thing made fubjed to Providence
t or Necdfity, cannot pollibly re-
l! N 3 main
r
main idle bf their own proper Opera¬
tion.
i 3. For that which is,fhall ever be *
for both the Body, and the Life of it,
is the fame. /'
14. And by this reafbn, it follows,
that the Bodies alfo are always, be-
caufe I affirm, T hat this corporiety is
always by the Ad and Operation, or
for them. M
■ij. For although earthly bodies be
fubjed to diflolution; yet thefe bodies
inufl: l be the Places, and the Organs,
and Inftraments of Ads or Opera-
tions.
16. But Ads or Operations are im- !
mortal, and that which is immortal,
is always in Ad, and therefore alfo
Cojpojificafion if it be always. x*m
17. Ads or Operations do follow
the Soul, yet come not fuddenly or
promifcuoufly^butfome of them come
together with being made man, being
about bruitiih or unreafonable things*
18. But the purer Operations do
- . • ■ v in-
 1 infenfibly in the change of time,work
-with the oblique part of the Soul.
J 19. And thefe Operation depend
upon Bodies; a#id truly they that are
Codifying, come from the Divine
I Bodies into Mortal ones.
| 20. But every one of them adeth
i both about the Body and the Soul,
lit and are prefent with the Soul, even
without the Body.
i 21. And they are always A&$ or
ftk Operations,but the Soul is not always
(r in a Mortal Body , for it can be with-
§ out a Body, but Acts or Operations
• cannot be without Bodies.
22. This is afacred fpeech, Son*
ffioop cannot confitt toitficut a &oul.
23. SCat Howmeancft thou that.
Father?
24. ^erm. llnderfta.nd it thus, O
%Cat, When the Soul is fe
the Body, there r,<
■Body.
( 25. And this fame B01
* to the time of its abode, is a&uatei
N 4 or
 in

or in it is
i6<
cannot fuffer without ad or operati
en. ‘
*r,n" r ' ucritly there remaincth
the fame ad or
ration i V.
ii QJ , ' I
27 is the difference be¬
tween an
tal one, that the immortal confifts
of one Mater, and fo doth not the
mortal one 5 and the immortal one
doth, but this fuffereth.
28; And every thing that adeth
or operateth, is ftronger, and ruleth,
but that which is aduated or opera¬
nd, is ruled.
2p. And that which ruleth, dired-
cth, and governeth as free, but the
other is ruled a fervant.
3°* Ads or Operations do not one-
ly aduate dr operate, living or breath-
my or infouled («*&/*.) Bodies, but
alfo breathlefs Jodies or without
Souls, Wood, and Stones, and fuch
C" , v f *• "■ ’ like
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m
like cncreafing and bearing fruit,ripen¬
ing, corrupting, rotting, petrifying l
and breaking, or Working fucri-like
things, and whatfoever inanimate
* Bodies can fuffer. HHHH
31. Act or Operation, O Son, is
called, whatfoever is, or is madeor
done 5 and there are always many
things made, or rather all things.
32. For thd: World is never wid¬
owed or forfaken of any of thofe
things that are 5 but being ail way car¬
ried Or moved in it felf, it is in labor
if to bring forth thefhings that are ,
it which ihall never be left by it tocot-
okruption.
i 33. Let therefore every ad or ope-
i| ration be underftood to be always im-
| mortal, in what maner of Body loever
’ it be.
I 34. But fome'Ads dr Operations
l be of Divine, 1 fome of corruptible
1 Bodies, fome.univerfal, fome pecu-
I liar, and fome of the generals, and
] fome of the parts of everything.
31 - 3 5. Divine
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: 35. Divine Ads or Operations
therefore there be, and fuch as work
or operate upon their proper Bodies,
and thefcalfo areperfed, and being
upon or in pcrfed Bodies.
36. Particular,are they which work
by any of the living Creatures.
37. Proper, be they that work up¬
on any of the things that are.
38. By this Difcourfe therefore, 0
Son, it is gathered that all things are
full of Ads or Operations.
3 9. P01* if neceflarily they be in /
every Body , and that there be many
Bodies in the World, I may very
well affirm, that there be many other
Ads or Operations. >■ 1
40. For many times in one Body,
there is one, and a fecond,and a third,
befides thefe univerfal ones thatfol-'
lOW. - ;
41. And univerfal Operations, I
call them that are indeed bodily, and
are done by the Senfes and Motions.
42. For without thefe it is impoffi-
ble
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:blc that the Body Ihould confift.
I 43. But other Operations are pro¬
sper to the Souls of Men, by Arts,
Sciences, Studies, and Adions.
i 44. The Senfes alfo follow thefe
Operations, or rather are the effects
s or perfedions of them.
I 45. Underftand therefore, O Son,
the difference of Operations, it is fenc
“from above.
46. But Senfe being in the Body,
and having its cffence from it, when
it receivcth Ad or Operation, mani-
: fefteth it, making it as it were corpo-
ij real.
47. Therefore, I fay, that the
afes are both corporeal and mortal,
having fo much exigence as the Body 5
are born with the Body, and
. it; :
i 48. But mortal things themfelves
have not Senfe, as not confifting of
fuch an Effence.
4P. For Senfe can be no other
then a corporeal apprehenfion, cither
of
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of evil or good that comes to the

Body. '
5*0. But to Eternal Bodies there is
nothing comes, nothing departs 5
therefore there is no Strife in them.
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5*. %nt. Doth the Senfe there¬

fore perceive or apprehend in every
Body*?
52. f^erm. In every Body, 0
Son.
53. Cat. And do the Ads or 0-
perations work in all things *?
54. l^erm. Even in things inani¬
mate, O Son, but there are differences
of Senfes.
55. For the Senfes of things rati¬
onal, are with Reafon; of things un-
reafonable, Corporeal onely; but the
Senfes of things inanimate, are paffive
onely, according to Augmentation
and Diminution. j
56. ButPaflion and Senfe depend
both upon one head, or height, and
are gathered together into the fame,
by Ads or Operations*
' 57. But
 57* But *n Bving wights there be
two other Operations that follow the
Senft$! and Paffionsy to wit5 -r - :• -•

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58. And without theft, it is im-

15 pofhbl'e that a living wight, efpec tally
a reafonable one fhould percciye or
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theft are the ^ of * ^
bear rule . efoecMlv^n
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tons won
but the Senfts do deelareNand manh
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feft the Operations, and fhey'oeing

r ire hicr^d bythe bruitifhparts
of the ** » *

, are ✓

61. For that which affords the

HI Senft to rejoyce with Pleafure, is
[5 ftraightway the cauft of many evils
happening to him that fuffers it.
’
62. But Sorrow gives ftronger tor¬
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ments and Anguifh, therefore doubt-

lefs are they both maleficial.
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it is not poffible that man
being an imperfe& wight,
compounded of im per¬
fect Members 5 and ha¬
ving his tabernacle, confiding of
different and many Bodies, fliould
fpeak with any confidence.
2. But as far as it is poffible, and
juft, I fay, That Truth is onely in the
Eternal
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Eternal Bodies , w very Bodies
be true,
is it felf oncly.
__ • the Earth
and nothing elfe 5 the Air is air it felf ■
’and nothing elfe^ the Water, water it
felf, and nothing elfe;
1 4. But our Bodies confift of all
thefe^ for they have of the Fire, they
have of the Earth, they have of the "
Water, and Air, and yet there is nei¬
ther Fire, nor Earth, nor Water, nor*
Air, fiOr any thing true;
5. And if at the beginning, our
Conftitution had not T^uth, how 15
could men either’ fee the Truth, oil
it, or underhand it onely, ex^
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H re upon Earth,
O && are not Truth, but imitations
Truth: add yet not dll things
are but few that are
IQ, f- i » i

y.-But the othdr things are Falfliood,

deceit, O &at, and Options
• ' i* like
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like the Images of the fantafie or ap-

■pearance.
?t, 8. And when the fantafie hath an
/influence from above, then it is an
limitation of Truth, but without that- ‘
operation from above, it is left a
fye.
1 9- And as an Image (hews the
"•Body defcribed, and yet is not the
iti-Body of that which is feen, as it feems
f|to be; and it is feen to have eyes, but
it fees nothing, andears, but hears no- I ,
; thing at all; and all other things hath
/the pi&ure, but they are faife, decei-
yingtheeyes of the beholder, whileft
•hey think they fee the Truth, and yet
"they are indeed but lies.
10. As many therefore as fee not
,nFahliood, fee the TruthaiBG||MiHH|
| ii. If therefore we __
fond, and fee every one of thefe
things as it is, then we fee and under-
land true things.
I 12. But if we "fee or underhand
fPY thing befides,or otherwife, then
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that which is, we ftiall neither under-
ftand, nor know the Truth.
13. %a&. Is Truth therefore upon
Earths O Father i
Thou, doft not mifs the
mark, O Son. Truth indeed is no
where at all upon Earth, O for
it cannot be generated, or made.
15. Blit concerning the Truth, it
may be that fame men^to whom God
give ng Power, may
» -wr w w

16. So that unjto the Minde and

Reafon, there is nothing true indeed;
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17. But unto the true Minde and

Reafon, all things are fantafies or ap¬
pearances, and opinions.
18. 2Cst. Muft we not therefore
call it Truth, to underhand and Fpeak 1
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the things that are **

ip. I^crm. But there is nothing
true upon Earth.
2Q. 2Eat. How then is this true,
That we do not know any thing true i
• how
 mentus.
how can that be done here >
| 21. ^ctm, O Son, Truth is the
rnoft perkAt Vertuc, and the big heft
tf Good it felf, not troubled by Matter,
i not encompalfed by a Body, naked,
un-
; \ ■

I 22. But the things that are here,

J O Son,are vifible, incapable of Good, A.
Icnrruptible, paflible, diffolveable,
changeable, continually altered, and
Jmadeof another.
J 23. T he {things therefore, that are
|no| true to th
, be true t 1 ■ ■ . m •
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ni at is altered
® is a lie, not abiding in what it is 5 but
it fhews us always
,w,vA appearances^ .cs
25- SPaf. Is not man tri$,o0:Fa-
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if 2 6. Pttni. As far forth as he is a

Man, he is not true, Son $ for that >
I which is true, hath of it felf alone its
iConftitution , and remains , and
1 O 2 abides
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abides according to it felf, fuch as

it is.
27. But man confifts of many
things, and doth not abide of him-
felf; but is turned and changed, age
after age , after I&ea, or form
after form ; and this while he is yet in
the Tabernacle.
28. And many have not known
their own children after a little while*,
and many children likewife have not
known their own Parents. ’* \
29. Is it then poffible, O
that he who is fo changed , is not
to be known, fhould be true? no,
on the contrary, he is Falfhood,
being in many Appearances of
changes.
30. But do thou underftand the
True to be that which abides the
fame, and is Eternal, but man is not
ever, therefore not True 5 but man is a
certain Appearance, and Appearance
is the higheft Lie or Fahhood.
3t* Batthefeeternal Bodies,
* ' ‘ • /. Father,
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Father, are they not true though they
°f(be changed {
| Z1' Every thing that is be-
ligotten, or made, and changed, is not
true $ but being made by our Proge-
£s,nitor, they might have had true
atter.
it! 33. But thefe alfo have in them-
felves, fomething thatisfalfe, in re¬
gard of their change. ;
f 34. For nothing that remains not
in it felf, is True.
* 35. Cat. What fhall one fay then,
ather , that onelytheSuri, which
: befides the Nature of other things, js
not changed, but abides in it felf, is

36. ^errtt. It is Truth, and there¬

fore is he onely intrufted with the
^Workman (hip of the World, ruling
"'iand making all things, whom I do
both honor, and adore his Truth; and
after the Cne, and Firft,I acknowledg
him the Workman.
f 37* What therefore doft thou
' O ? affirm
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affirm to be the fir ft Truth, O Fa¬

ther i
3§. ^erm, The 0ne and ^npip, 0
%nt, that is not of Matter, that is
not in a Body, that is without Colour,
without Figure or Shape, Immutable,
Unalterable, which always is $ but
Falfhood, O Son, is corrupted.
39. And corruption hath laid hold
upon all things on Earth,and the Pro¬
vidence of the %im encot
and will encompafs them.
40. For without corruption, there
can. no Generation confilb
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1
41# For Corruption followed!
every Generation, that it may again
be generated. I
42.: For thole things that are gene¬
rated, muft of neccffity be generated
of thofe things that are corrupted,
and the things generated muft needs
hecorrupted, that the Generation of
things being , may not ftandfBHw
ceafe, 4 > , * **.•*•’*

43* Acknowledg therefore the

, ‘u fit#
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times another : For it is impolli
Hr i>

they fhouldbemadc the fame things

tt
again 9 and that Vvhich is not the fame,9
w is it true I
i 45. Therefore, O Son, we muft
call thefe things fantafies or appear¬
ances.
ml ' 46. And if we will give a man his
i isK t

right name, we muft call him the ap¬

pearance of Manhood 5 and a Childe,
thefantafie or appearance of a Childe^
an old man, the appearance of an old
roan f a young man, the appearance
of a young man *, and a man of ripe
age, the appearance of a man of ripe
age. • - ‘
47. For neither is a man, a man 5
nor a childe, a childe; nor a young
man, a young man 5 nor an old man,
an old man.
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d that are, being changed , are
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falfe.
49. Thefe things underftand thus,
f O Son, as thefe falfe Operations, ha¬
ving their dependance from above
even of the Truth it felf.
5°* Which being fo, I do affirm,
that FaHhood is the Work of Truth.

The end of the fifteenth Book.

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f <£rm. We mult , now

- fpeak of the Soul and
Body, O Son * after
what maner the Soul
is Immortal^and what
operation that is >
which conftitutes the Body, and dif;
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iolvcs it. \ .. yViffi*
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 2. ' But in none of thefe is Death,
for it is a conception of a name, which
is either an empty word, or elfe it is
wrongly called Death, by
thei taking away the firfi: letter, in-
ftead of Immortal (<L
3. For Death is deftru&ion, but
there is nothing in the whole World
that is deft royed.
4* For if the World be a fecond
God, and an Immortal living Wight,
it is impojftble that any part of an Im¬
mortal living Wight fliould die.
5. But all things that are in the
World, are members of the World,
cfpecially Man, the reafonable living
Wight. D
6 For the firft of all is God, the
Eternal, and Unmade,and the Work¬
man of all things.
7. The lecond is the World,made
by him, after his own Image, and by
him holden together, and nourilhed,
and immortalized $ and as from its
own Father, ever living.
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8. So that as Immortal, it is ever
living, and eyer immortal.
i g. For that which is ever living,
differs from that which is eternal*
ti 10. For the Eternal was not be¬
gotten, or made by another *, and if it
were begotten or made, yet it was
ti made by it felf, not by any other, but
<
it is always made.
I- 11. For the Eternal, as it is Eter^
nal,is the Univerfe.
12. For the Father him felf, isE-
ternal of himfelf,,*, but the World was
made by the Father, ever living, and

13. And as much Mater as there

was laid up by him, the Father made
it all into a Body, and fwelling it*
made it round like a Sphere*, endued
it with Quality,being it felf immortal,
and having Eternal Materiality.
14. The Father being full of jw##*
fowed Qualities in the Sphere, and
(hut them up, as in a-Circle, delibera¬
ting to beautifie With every Quality,
■ . •: that
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that which fhould afterwards be I

made. 1
: 15. Then cloathing the Univerfal ]
Body with Immortality , left the I
Matter, if it would depart from this 1
Compofitipn, (liould be diflolved into f
its own diforder. I
16. For when the Matter was in- I
corporeal, O Son, it was difordered, f
and it hath here the fame confufion I
daily revolved about other little j
things, endued with Qualities,in point f
of Augmentation , ^nd Dimunition, 1
which men call Death 3 being indeed
a' diforder happening about earthly |
living wights. j
_ *7* Bor the Bodies of Heavenly I
things, have one order, which they j
have received from the Father at the 1
Beginning, and is by the inftauration
of each of them, kept indiffolve-
r. able. ; m
■ *8* But the inftauration of earthly I
Bodies, is their confiftence * and
their diffolution reftores them into
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^ indiifoluble , that is. Immortal.
1/ ip- And fo there is made a priva¬
tion of Sente, but not a deftru&ion
!fl, .of Bodies. ; ./ .
H- 20. Now the third living wight is
I Man, made after the Image of the
iWorld 5 and having by-the Will of
it the Father, a Minde above other
nit earthly wights.
ai| 21. And he hath not onely a
([[-fympathy with the fecond God,'
II but alfo an understanding of the
i firft* v ' ;.
,j| 22. For the fecond God,he appre-
J hends as a Body 5 but the firft, he un-
derftands as Incorporeal , and the
Minde of the Good.
| 23. SCat. And doth not this living
• wight perilh i
I 24. Ipsrm. Speak adyifedly, O
J Son, and learn what God is, what
"|the World, what • an Immortal
| Wight, and what a dilfolveable
& One is. y !
1 25.' And underftand that the
Worlrl
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World is of God, and in Go d but
>f the World, and in the
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26, The Beginning, and End, and
Confiftenee of all, is God.
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learn the Nature of the

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. that are *• He
would notr fuffer me to
give over (as coming very young to
the knowlcdg of every individual)
till I was forced to difeourfe to him
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■ many things at large, that his con¬

templation might from point to point,
be more eafic and fuccefsful.
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2. But to thee, I have thought |

good to write in few words, chufihg I
out the principal heads of the things I
then fpoken, and to interpret them I
more myfticaliy, becaufe thou haft, I
both more yeers, and more knowledg I
of Nature. J r
3. All things that appear, were
made, and are made.
4. Thofe things that ar& made,
are not made by themfelves, but by
another.
" 5. And there are many things
made, but efpecially all things that
appear, and which are different, and
not like.
6. If the things that be made and j
done, be made and done by another, I
there muft be one that muft make,and 1
do them 5 and he unmade, and more ft
ancient then the things that are I
made. I
7. For I affirm the things that are I
made, to be made by another 5 and it I
is impoftible, that of the things that 1
.. • -; are 1
 rijmegijm. zoy
if are made, any fhoidd be more ancient
then all, but onely that which is not
i made.
8. He is ftronger, and One, and
onely knowing all things indeed , as
not having any thing more ancient
thenhimfelf. .;
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9. For he bears rule, both over
multitude, and-greatnefs, and the di-
verfity of the things that are made,
I and the continuity of the Fa&urp, and
of the Operation.
II 10. Moreover,r the things that are
‘ made, are viable, but he is invifible 5
4 and for this caufe, he maketh them,
*1 that he may be vifible; and therefore
he makes them always. '
i r. T hus it is fit to underftand,arid
? underftanding to admire, and. admi-
; ring to think thy felf happy, that
If knowefi-thy natural Father,
12. For what is Tweeter then a
natural Father <
13. Who therefore is this, or how
we know him ? /
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14. Or is it juft to afcribe unto him
alone, the Title and Appellation of
God, or of the Maker, or of the Fa*
ther, or all Three ' That of God
becaufe of his Power ♦ the Maker I
becaufe of his Working and Opera-1
tion 5 and the Father, becaufe of his
Goodnefs <? \
15* For Power is different from j
the things thatare made, but Mot!
Operation, in chat all things are made.
lf’ Wherefore, letting go all
mudi and vain talking, wemuftim-
oerltand thefe two things, &ijat tiDf$ !
ts matse, ano &tm foljtcfj is ttie Shaker; i
tor there is nothing in the middle, be- i
third” C^e^C ^WC> 3 n°r *S any I
u. I7* Therefore under (landing All
things, remember thefe Two 5 and
think that thefe are All thin»« nur-

Mings tnat are in darknefs or fecret. j

18. For
 I
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* 18. For All things, are but Two
I things , SCijat fa3jjtc& tnaketfj, anD tf?r£
15 mate; and the One of them
I cannot depart, or be divided from the
other. >
ip. For neither is it polfible, that
K
the Maker ihould be without the thing
made, for either of them is the felf?
fame thing 5 therefore cannot the One
tl of them be feparated from the other,
XI
no more then a thing can be feparated
from it felf.
20. For if he that makes be nothing
elfe, but that which makes alone,
ftmple, tmcompounce&, it is of neceffity,
It that he makes the fame thing to him-
\ felf, to whom it is the Generation of
him that maketh to be alfo All that is,
made. f
21. For that which is generated or
made, muft neceffarily be generated o?
made by another, but without the
Maker that which is made, neither U '■

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is made, nor is; for the one of them
without the other, hath loll hispro-
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per Nature by the privation of the

other. f ,
22. So if thefe IVo be confefTed,.,
That which maketh, and that which
is made, then they are One in Union,
this going before, and that following.
2 3. And that which goeth before, r |
is, God the Maker- and that which
follows, is, that which is made, be ic j
what it will.
24;, Afidlet no man be afraid, be-
caufe of the variety of things that are
made op done, left he fbould caft an
afperftdn of bafonefs, or infamy upon
God 5 for it is the oneiy Glory of
him to do, or make All things.
25* And this making, or flufture,
is as it were the Body of God and
to him that maketh, or doth, there is
nothing evil, or filthy to be imputed,
v Ujstc is nothing f^ougfjt etui, 02
26. For thefe are Paftions that fol¬
low Generation,as lluft doth Copper,' 1
eras Excrements do the Body. 1
iy. But neither did the Copper-
fmith
 fmith make the lluft, nor the Maker
i w ' / ,» '

the Filth, nor God the Eviinefs.

i s8. But the viciflkude of Genera¬
li tion doth make them, as it were to
blolfom out 5 and for this caufedki
, make Change to be,as one jfhould fay,
f jThe Purgation of Generation*
51 25?. Moreover, is it lawfutfbrihe
{i" lame Painter to make both Heaven,
and the Gods , and * the Earth, and
thpSe.a, and
and inanimate Things, and Tfees
aland is it impoffble1 for God to make
tthcfe things < O the great madnels,
land ignorance of men in things that
[concern God / <
' ?o. For men thate think fo,. fuffer
that which is moft ridiculous of all 5
for profefling to bkfs,and praife God,
)(yet in not afcribing to him the making
i, doing of All things , they know
him not.
f 31. And befides their not knowing
him, they are extreamly impious
againft him , attributing unto him
Paflions,
 Paflions, as Pri4cj or gDSerfig&f, 0r
Weaknefs, or Ignorance, or Envy. ,
32. For if he do not make, or do
all things, he is either proud, or not
able, or ignorant, or envious, which
is impious to affirm.
! 33. For God hathonely onePaf
hon, namely, Good ; and he thac is
good, is neither proud, nor impotent,
nor the reft, but God is Good it felf.
34* For (2*000 is all loftier, to do
or make all things, and every thing
that is made, is made by God; that
is, by the Good, and that can make,
or do all things.
^ o
_ 35. See then how he maketh all
things, and how the things are done,
thatare done ; and if thou wilt learn, j
thou may eft fee an Image thereof,
very beautiful, and like. |
_ £&% Look upon the Husbandman, ]
how he cafteth Seeds into the Earth, i
here Wheat, there Barly, and elfe-
wherefome other Seeds.
37. Look upon the fame Man,
planting .
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planting a Vine, or an Apple-Tree, or
a Fig-Tree, or fome other Tree. 3 r

38. So doth God in Heaven fbwe

Immortality, in the Earth Change in
the whole Life, and Motion. ,
J| things are not many,
l! but few,and eafily numbred 5 for they
.are all but four, God and Generation.,,
jin which are all things.

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