30 HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



To Ms own Son Tat. Discourse. 

 The Crater, or Monas. 



1. The Creator (a), not with hands but by Word, 1 made(&) 

 the whole World, 2 so that conceive of Him thuswise, as of 

 the present and everbeing, and having made all things, and 

 One and Only and by His own Will having created (c) the 

 Entities. For this is the body of Him ; not touchable, nor 



(6) ITO/J^SI/ rov "Truuroe, 



everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good " (Gen. 

 i. 26-31). 



The version of the Septuagint is as follows : 



" Ka/ sJtftv b Qebg 'TToirjaufAtv " AvQpuvov xar l/xova q/Atrspav xa/ 

 5ta$' opoiuffiv ; xa/ dp^sruffav ruv i^dvuv r^g QahdcGyg xa/ ruv 

 mreivuv rov ovpavov xa/ ruv xryvuv xa/ TaOjj rr t g yr^g xai Travruv 

 ruv IptftTuv TUV zpKOVTUv sft} r^g y?j. Ka/ I-TO/TJO'SV o &sbg rbv 



xar f/xoi/a &sov svolqffsv avrov, apctv %ai Qq 

 Ka/ zvXoyrjfftv avrovg 6 @tbg X'syuv Av^dvtffQz xa/ 



fy yw xa} xaraxupiovffars avrqc,, xai ap^trs ruv 

 rq$ QaXdfftfqg xai ruv tfsrsivuv rov bupavov xa/ Tavrwv ruv 

 xa/ tfaffqg rqg yyjg xa/ tfdvrwv ruv spKtrZiv ruv 

 * Ka/ sJrfsv 6 &sbg 'idou dsd 



6<7rp/&a o sffriv svdvu tfdffTig rqg yyg, xai ^rav guXo? o s%si sv 

 xapirbv Gtfsp/Aarog G^O^ILOM V/JL/V effrai sjg [Bpuffiv. Ka/ 'Tract 

 roig Qripioig r%g yr^c, xai iraffi ro?c, rttreivoig rov ovpavou xa/ cravr/ 

 sp'TTsriZ sptfovri S<TTI T%g yqg o e^si sv sowruj > fyvy$v fayjg xai -ravra 

 %6prov %Xupbv sig (Spuffiv xa/ sysvsro ourug. Ka/ sJdsv o 0% ra 

 cravra offa eKofyffz xa/ tdov xaXa X/av" (Field's Edition, Cantab. 1665). 



1 The Chaldee paraphrast has " Memra." " By the Word of The 

 Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath 

 of His mouth " (Ps. xxxiii. 6). " He spake and it was done " (ibid. 9). 

 " Through faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by 

 the Word of God" (Heb. xi. 3). " For this they wilfully forget that 

 there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water 

 and amidst water, by The Word of God " (2 Pet. iii. 5). See also 

 Gen. i. 6 ; John i. 3. 



2 The word " xoV^o?" has been uniformly translated " World," but 

 it must be understood to mean the entire cosmical " Ordo," or 

 Universe. * 



