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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IX: Human Knowledge Necessary for the Understanding of the Scriptures. (3)
And did not the Lord make all things by the Word? Even the beasts work, driven by compelling fear. And do not those who are called orthodox apply themselves to good works, knowing not what they do?
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (2)
We must not a think with our Understanding and Skill, of God's making or creating, as of a Man that makes something, as a Potter makes a Vessel of a L...
Corpus Hermeticum
11. Mind Unto Hermes (13)
For if there's aught he doth not make (if it be law to say), He is imperfect. But if He is not only not inactive, but perfect [God], then He doth make...
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.
Corpus Hermeticum
11. Mind Unto Hermes (12)
All things, therefore, He makes, in many [ways]. And what great thing is it for God to make life, soul, and deathlessness, and change, when thou...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (34)
When God had finished this on the fourth Day, he saw it, and considered it, and it was good, as Moses writes. Then God desired in his external Will,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (18)
Now that Word had no Matter out of which it made any Thing, but it created all Things out of the Darkness, and brought them to Light, that it might...
Tripartite Tractate
The Creation of Material Humanity (3)
Like that of all else is the creation of mankind as well. The spiritual Logos moved him invisibly, as he perfected him through the Demiurge and his...
Tripartite Tractate
Redemption of the Calling (2)
Not only those who have come forth from the Logos, about whom alone we said that they would accomplish the good work, but also those whom these...
Tripartite Tractate
The Conversion of the Logos (12)
The powers of this thought are prepared in the works of the pre-existent , those of which they are the representations. For the order of those of...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (8)
Thus spake to me Man-Shepherd. And I say: Whence then have Nature's elements their being? To this He answer gives: From Will of God. [Nature] received...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (108)
The Maker of all things, self-operating, framed the World. And there was a certain Mass of Fire: all these things Self-Operating He produced, that...
Corpus Hermeticum
11. Mind Unto Hermes (6)
For He who makes, is in them all; not stablished in some one of them, nor making one thing only, but making all. For being Power, He energizeth in the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered. (31)
Also John the Baptist said so of the Pharisees, and we see apparently, how many Men live wholly like Beasts, according to their bestial Mind, and yet ...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (2)
For when God through the Word had created heaven and earth, and had separated the light from the darkness, and had given a place to each of them, then...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (17)
For out of the spiritual Form, the corporeal [Form] is generated, and the eternal Word has created it by the Fiat, to stand thus. Or unknown.
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (1)
["VERBUM Domini, The Word of the Lord, by the Fiat (that is, the saying, Let there be angels), comprised the qualifying or fountain spirits into a...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (32)
Now the Master always works on and without Consideration, what he lights upon that he makes; for the Consideration is in the Work. And therefore it...
Tripartite Tractate
The Conversion of the Logos (4)
Until the one who brought forth into the defect these things which were thus in need, until he judged those who came into being because of him...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (26)
Therefore, the Fire is called the Son of Striving. The Workman passed as a whirlwind through the universe, causing the substances to vibrate and glow ...
Corpus Hermeticum
11. Mind Unto Hermes (14)
Yet this is not like unto that, for He doth not enjoy. For that indeed He hath no other one to share in what He works, for working by Himself, He ever...