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Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (5)
[Thereon] out of the Light [...] a Holy Word (Logos) descended on that Nature. And upwards to the height from the Moist Nature leaped forth pure Fire; light was it, swift and active too. The Air, too, being light, followed after the Fire; from out of the Earth-and-Water rising up to Fire so that it seemed to hang therefrom. But Earth-and-Water stayed so mingled with each other, that Earth from Water no one could discern. Yet were they moved to hear by reason of the Spirit-Word (Logos) pervading them.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (22)
Then out of the imprisoned Light a mysterious and Holy Word came forth and took its stand upon the smoking waters. This Word--the Voice of the...
Paraphrase of Shem
The Light of the Spirit Is in the Confines of Nature (2)
And by the will of the majesty the spirit gazed up at the infinite light, that his light may be pitied and the likeness may be brought up from Hades. ...
Paraphrase of Shem
Derdekeas Disturbs the Powers of Nature (2)
And I put on this of which the majesty and the unconceived spirit made me worthy. And the threefold unity of my garment appeared in the cloud, by the ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 5: Of the Third Principle, or Creation of the material World, with the Stars and Elements; wherein the First and Second Principles are more clearly understood. (29)
For the Matrix is the Water-Spirit in the Original, in the first Form; and now when it became material in the Place of this World, then the Spirit mov...
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 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (25)
Now thus the eternal Light, and the Virtue of the Light, or the heavenly Paradise, moves in the eternal Darkness; and the Darkness cannot comprehend...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (136)
For when the love-spirit out of the Heart of God glanced on the Salitter of the mass, then the Salitter did catch hold of it and conceived from it, an...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (44)
And when the Light of the Sun appeared in the fierce [Sourness or] Harshness, then the Harshness became thin and a sweet, even Water, and the Fiercene...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (103)
And then the Word stood against him, in the Center of the Heaven; and he stood (in the Root of the Fierceness) against the Word; for his Spirit went o...
Asclepius
Section II (2)
All things descend from Heaven to Earth, to Water and to Air. ’Tis Fire alone, in that it is borne upwards, giveth life; that which [is carried]...
Paraphrase of Shem
Derdekeas Disturbs the Powers of Nature (5)
For her ascent was shameful. And nature took to herself the power of fire. She became strong because of the light of the spirit that was in nature. He...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (25)
And now as the whole earth was, together with the word, so was the fruit also; but the word remained in the centre of the heaven, which is also in thi...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (66)
Behold, when God said, Let there be light, then the light in the powers of nature, or the seven spirits of God, rose up, and the firmament of heaven,...
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...
Paraphrase of Shem
Derdekeas Disturbs the Powers of Nature (4)
It was filled with the universal thought. And through the word of the light of the spirit it returned to its rest. It received form in its root and sh...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (28)
Now when God had severed the Matrix with [or from] its fiery Form, and would manifest himself with this World, then he put the Fiat into the Matrix,...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (23)
Then again was heard the voice of Poimandres, but His form was not revealed: "I Thy God am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (8)
And the Discovering stood in the sharp Attraction of the Fiat, and the Fiat created it so, that it became essential [or substantial;] and the same are...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (89)
["By the word SALITTER, in this book, is understood how, out of the eternal centre of nature, the second Principle grows and springeth up out of the...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (92)
"For the fire will consume all, and causes a high rising in the source, and the meekness of the light causes entity or substantiality; viz. in the...
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