6 HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 



But the revolution (a) of these, as the Mind wills from the 

 downborne elements, brought out irrational animals, for it 

 did not afford them reason. (&) But the air brought out 

 winged animals, and the water swimming, and both earth 

 and the water were separated from each other, 1 just as 

 The Mind willed, and the earth sent out from itself the 

 four-footed animals which it had, serpents, wild and tame 

 beasts. 



12. But the Father of all things, The Mind, being Life 

 and Light, begat (c) (engendered) a Man like to Himself, 2 

 whom He loved as His own child, for He was very beauti- 

 ful, having the image of His Father. For, in fact, more- 

 over The God loved His own form, 3 and to this delivered 

 over all His own creations. 



13. Having considered the formation (d) of the Creator 

 in the Father, He too willed to create (e), and was parted (/) 

 from the Father, becoming (g) in the creative sphere. 

 Having all the dominion (/&), He considered the creations 



(a) KtpiQopdi. (6) Aoyov. (c) 



(d) x.ctTciov}ffois rqv xrtaiv. (e) qfiov'hyj 



(/) d'7ri%<i)piat)v. (g} ysvopevos. (h) i 



1 " And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered 

 together unto one place, and let the dry land appear" (Gen. i. 9). 

 " There were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of 

 water, and amidst water, by the Word of God " (2 Peter iii. 5). See 

 post, ch. iii. 2. 



2 u "Wisdom is the brightness of the everlasting Light, the unspotted 

 mirror of the Power of God, and the image of His Goodness " (Wis- 

 dom, vii. 26). 



" The image of The invisible God, the first born of all creation " 

 (Col. x. 15). 



" The only begotten Son, He hath declared Him." " His Son, Whom 

 He appointed heir of all things, through Whom also He made the 

 worlds, Who being the effulgence of His glory and the very image of 

 His substance, and upholding all things by the Word of His power " 

 (Heb. i. 3, Eevised Version). 



" Who being in the form of God counted it not a prize to be on an 

 equality with God, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, 

 being made in the likeness of men, and being formed in fashion as a 

 man He humbled Himself" (Philipp. ii. 6, Revised Version). 



3 " The kingdom of the Son of His love" (Col. i. 13, Revised Version). 



