Category: Divine Pymander
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THE EIGHTH BOOK, THE GREATEST EVIL IN MAN IS THE NOT KNOWING GOD
WHITHER are you carried, O Men, drunken with drinking strong Wine of Ignorance? which seeing you cannot bear, why do you vomit it up again? 2. Stand, and be sober, and look up again with the Eyes of your heart, and if you cannot all do so, yet do so many as you can. 3.…
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THE NINTH BOOK, A UNIVERSAL SERMON TO ASCLEPIUS
Herm. ALL that is moved, O Asclepius, is it not moved in something and by something? 2. Asclep. Yes, indeed. 3. Herm. Must not that in which a thing is moved, of necessity be greater than the thing that is moved? 4. Of necessity. 5. And that which moveth, is it not stronger than that…
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THE TENTH BOOK, THE MIND TO HERMES
FORBEAR thy Speech, O Hermes Trismegistus, and call to mind to those things that are said; but I will not delay to speak what comes into my mind, sithence many men have spoken many things, and those very different, concerning the Universe, and Good; but I have not learned the Truth. 2. Therefore, the Lord…
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THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF THE COMMON MIND, TO TAT
THE Mind, O Tat, is of the very Essence of God, if yet there be any Essence of God. 2. What kind of Essence that is, he alone knows himself exactly. 3. The Mind therefore is not cut off, or divided from the essentiality of God, but united as the light of the Sun. 4.…
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THE TWELFTH BOOK, HIS CRATER OR MONAS
THE Workman made this Universal World, not with his Hands, but his Word. 2. Therefore thus think of him, as present everywhere, and being always, and making all things; and one above, that by his Will hath framed the things that are. 3. For that is his Body, not tangible, nor visible, nor measurable, nor…
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THE THIRTEENTH BOOK, OF SENSE AND UNDERSTANDING
YESTERDAY, Asclepius, I delivered a perfect Discourse, but now I think it necessary, in suite of that, to dispute also of Sense. 2. For Sense and Understanding seem to differ, because the one is material and the other essential. 3. But unto me, they appear to be both one, or united, and not divided in…
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THE FOURTEENTH BOOK, OF OPERATION AND SENSE
Tat. THOU has well explained these things, Father. Teach me furthermore these things, for thou sayest, that Science and Art were the operations of the Rational, but now thou sayest, that Beasts are unreasonable, and for want of Reason, both are, and are called Brutes, so that by this reason, it must needs follow, that…
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THE FIFTEENTH BOOK, OF TRUTH TO HIS SON TAT
Herm. OF TRUTH, O Tat, it is not possible that man, being an imperfect Wight, compounded of Imperfect members, and having his Tabernacle, consisting of different, and many Bodies, should speak with any Confidence. 2. But as far as it is possible and just (I say). That Truth is only in Eternal Bodies, whose very…
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THE SIXTEENTH BOOK, THAT NONE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE CAN PERISH
Herm. WE must now speak of the Soul and body, O Son, after what manner the soul is Immortal, and what operation that is, which constitutes the Body, and dissolves it. 2. But in none of these is Death, for it is a conception of a name, which is either an empty word, or else…
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THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK, TO ASCLEPIUS, TO BE TRULY WISE
BECAUSE, my Son, Tat, in thy absence, would needs learn the Nature of the things that are, he would not suffer me to give over (as coming very young to the knowledge of every individual), till I was forced to discourse to him many things at large, that his contemplation might, from point to point,…