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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (28)
"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 Ring of the Fire. And having beheld the achievements of the Fiery Workman, He willed also to make things, and His Father gave permission. The Seven Governors, of whose powers He partook, rejoiced and each gave the Man a share of Its own nature.
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (13)
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 ...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (9)
Men call their ruling Fate.
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (17)
In such wise than, as I have said, the generation of these seven came to pass. Earth was as woman, her Water filled with longing; ripeness she took...
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…
Chaldean Oracles
Father. Mind. Fire. (13)
All things have issued from that one Fire. The Father perfected all things, and delivered them over to the Second Mind, whom all Nations of Men call...
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...
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...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (19)
Understand and consider it aright, O Man! God the Father made Man; the Beginning of whose Body is out of the [one] Element, or Root of the four...
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...
Apocryphon of John
Adam Receives Spirit and Life (Adam Receives Spirit and Life)
All the angels and demons worked together until they fashioned the psychical body. But for a long time their creation did not stir or move at all.…
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (49)
And he had the Touch of the Center of the Abyss [viz.'] the eternal Source a behind him, as a Band, and before him, the Heart and Light of God, as a G...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (15)
Man, who had the chaste Virgin (the Wisdom of God) in him; therefore the Spirit of this World pressed so hard upon the Image for the Virgin, that it m...
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…
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,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (8)
Behold, when God had created the third Principle, after the Fall of the Devils, when they fell from their Glory (for they had been Angels, standing...
Asclepius
Section VIII (2)
Accordingly, in that He was so mighty and so fair, He willed that some one else should have the power to contemplate the One He had made from...
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...
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. (16)
And therefore God [created or] generated the third Principle, that he might be i manifested by the material World: He having created the Angels and Sp...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (12)
In very truth, God fell in love with his own Form; and on him did bestow all of His own formations.
Tripartite Tractate
The Organization (18)
The whole establishment of matter is divided into three. The strong powers which the spiritual Logos brought forth from fantasy and arrogance, he established in the first spiritual rank.…
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