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Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (13)
And when he gazed upon what the Enformer had created in the Father, [Man] too wished to enform; and [so] assent was given him by the Father. Changing his state to the formative sphere, in that he was to have his whole authority, he gazed upon his Brother's creatures. They fell in love with him, and gave him each a share of his own ordering. And after that he had well learned their essence and had become a sharer in their nature, he had a mind to break right through the Boundary of their spheres, and to subdue the might of that which pressed upon the Fire.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (28-29)
"The Man, desiring to labor, took up His abode in the sphere of generation and observed the works of His brother--the Second Mind--which sat upon the...
Tripartite Tractate
The Emanation of the Savior (6)
The one in whom the Father is and the one in whom the Totalities are <was> created before the one who lacked sight. He instructed him about those who searched for their sight, by means of the shining of that perfect light.…
Chaldean Oracles
Ideas. (39)
The Mind of the Father whirled forth in reechoing roar, comprehending by invincible Will Ideas omniform ; which flying forth from that one fountain...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXIX (2)
Order was con-created and constructed In substances, and summit of the world Were those wherein the pure act was produced. Pure potentiality held the ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (16)
As we are to know, that when God would manifest the eternal Mind in the Darkness, in the third Principle nwith this World, then first all Forms in...
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (3)
They were forever in thought, for the Father was like a thought and a place for them. When their generations had been established, the one who is completely in control wished to lay hold of and to bring forth that which was deficient in the [...] and he brought forth those…
Tripartite Tractate
The Pleroma of the Logos (1)
When the Logos which was defective was illumined, his Pleroma began. He escaped those who had disturbed him at first.…
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (27)
Substance could not bestow Reason, for Reason had ascended out of it. The air produced flying things and the waters such as swim. The earth conceived ...
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Life (8)
It is he, the Father, who gave root impulses to the aeons, since they are places on the path which leads toward him, as toward a school of behavior. He has extended to them faith…
Tripartite Tractate
The Pleroma of the Logos (7)
That in which the Logos set himself, perfect in joy, was an aeon, having the form of matter, but also having the constitution of the cause, which is the one who revealed himself. (The aeon was) an image of those things which are in the Pleroma, those things which came into…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (5)
The Father brought forth everything, like a little child, like a drop from a spring, like a blossom from a vine, like a flower, like a <planting> [...], in need of gaining nourishment and growth and faultlessness. He withheld it for a time.…
Apocryphon of John
Barbelo Conceives (Barbelo Conceives)
The father gazed into Barbelo, with the pure light surrounding the invisible spirit, and its radiance. Barbelo conceived from it, and it produced a spark of light similar to the blessed light but not as great.…
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. (25)
Now when God had created great potent princely Angels, and that in the Place of the fourth Form in the Matrix, where the Source of Fire has its...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (107)
That the connected series of things might intellectually remain in the Light of the Father; that the elements of the World might continue their course...
Tripartite Tractate
The Organization (2)
The Logos established him(self) at first, when he beautified the Totalities, as a basic principle and cause and ruler of the things which came to be, like the Father, the one who was the cause of the establishment, which was the first to exist after him. He created the…
Tripartite Tractate
The Emanation of the Savior (3)
The order which was his came into being from him who ran on high and that which brought itself forth from him and from the entire perfection. The one who ran on high became for the one who was defective an intercessor with the emanation of the aeons which had come into being in…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (8)
The Father, in accordance with his exalted position over the Totalities, being an unknown and incomprehensible one, has such greatness and magnitude, that, if he had revealed himself suddenly, quickly, to all the exalted ones among the aeons who had come forth from him, they…
Apocryphon of John
Geradamas and Seth (Geradamas and Seth)
Now, from the foreknowledge of the perfect mind, through the expressed will of the invisible spirit and the will of the self-conceived one, came the perfect human, the first revelation, the truth. The virgin spirit named the human Geradamas and appointed Geradamas to the first…
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 ...
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