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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 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (118)
But that the astringent and bitter Quality conceive themselves together with the Word, and unite and agree one with another, and yet the Spirit of the...
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,...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (122)
O Man, thou wast not created together with and as the Beasts, by the Word, from Good and Evil; and if thou hadst not eaten of Good and Evil, then the...
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, ...
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 angelic servants, who shared…
Tripartite Tractate
The Conversion of the Logos (12)
The powers of this thought are prepared in the works of the pre-existent <ones>, those of which they are the representations. For the order of those of this sort had mutual harmony, but it fought against the order of those of the likeness, while the order of those of the…
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (18)
Now listen to the rest of the discourse (Logos) which thou dost long to hear. The period being ended, the bond that bound them all was loosened by...
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 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.
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 contrary to reason - which is the judgment which became a condemnation - he struggled against them unto destruction…
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 ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (10)
God could well have created Creatures which should have managed the Beasts, [so] that Man might well have staid in Paradise in the angelical Form;...
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...