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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (4)
For as God said to the Matrix of the Earth, Let there come forth all Kinds of Beasts, so the Fiat created Beasts out of all the Essences; and first divided the Matrix, and after that the Essences and Qualities; and then he created them out of the divided Matrix, Male and Female. But because the Creatures were material, therefore every Kind [Species or Generation] must thus propagate itself from every Essence; but with the Angels not so, but [their Propagation was] sudden and swift; as God's Thoughts are, so were they.
Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Sacred Sermon (3)
Thus there arose four-footed beasts, and creeping things, and those that in the water dwell, and things with wings, and everything that beareth seed, ...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (24)
Now the purpose of God was to make a beautiful, excellent, angelical host or army out of the earth, and [also] all manner of ideas, forms or images....
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (103)
But a beast is made of the wild nature of this world; the stars and elements have generated beasts through their motion, according to the will of God.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (32)
Earth was the female element and water the male element, and from the fire and the æther they received their spirits, and Nature produced bodies after...