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expression is evidenced (a), that those things which thou 

 callest full, all these are void of the air, these being nar- 

 rowed of room by other bodies, and not being able to 

 receive the air into their locality. Those things then 

 which thou sayest are void, one must call hollow, not void, 

 for they subsist, and are full of air and spirit (6). 



12. Asclepius. The saying is uncontradic table, O Tris- 

 megistus ! The air is body, and this is the body which 

 permeates through all the Entities, and permeating fills 

 all tilings. But the locality then in which the Universe is 

 moved What should we call it ? 



Hermes. Incorporeal, Asclepius ! 



Asclepius. The incorporeal then, what is it ? 



Hermes. Mind and reason (c), whole out of whole (cl), 

 comprehending itself; free from all body, inerrant, im- 

 passible from body, intangible itself, stablished (e) in 

 itself, having capacity (/) for all things, and conservative 

 of the Entities, of which are, as it were, rays, the Good, 

 the Truth, the archetype Light (g\ the archetype of the 

 Soul. 1 



Asclepius. The God then, what is He ? 



Hermes. He subsisting (h) One, not of these things, but 

 being also cause to these things that they are, as well as 

 to all, and to each one of the Entities. 



13. Neither hath He left anything over beside (i) that is 

 not (&); for all things are those generate from the Entities, 

 not from those not Entities. Eor things not Entities have 

 not the nature to be able to become to be (7), but that of 

 not being able to become anything ; and again, the Entities 

 have not the nature of never to be (m). 



14. Asclepius. Whatever then sayest thou The God to 

 be? 



Hermes. The God then is not Mind but the cause that 



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