32 HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 



as understood the proclamation and were baptized with The 



t CuJb Mind, these partook of the knowledge and became perfect 



\ men, having received the Mind. But as many as failed 



of (a) the proclamation, they having obtained the Speech, 



/ but not the Mind, are ignorant for what they were generated, 



/ and by Whom. 1 ftv ^Loj ^ Ujb feuj < WjL v^tK <A^t &IV4 



5. But the senses of these are very like those of the 

 irrational (&) animals, and having the temperament in 



> cupidity (c) and passion (d), they admire not those things 

 worthy of contemplation, but attaching themselves to the 

 pleasures and appetites of the body, believe that the Man 

 was generated for the sake of these. But as many as have 

 partaken of the gift that is from The God, these, O 

 Tat! according to comparison (e) of the works, are im- 

 mortal instead of mortal, embracing (/) all things in their 

 own Mind, those upon the earth, those in Heaven, and 

 if there is anything above Heaven. So much having 

 elevated themselves, they behold the Good, and having 

 beheld, they have considered their sojourn here as mis- 

 fortune, and having despised all things corporeal and 

 incorporeal, they hasten to The One and Only. 



6. This, Tat ! is the science (g) of the Mind, the in- 

 spection (7i) of divine things, and the recognition (i) of The 

 God the Cup being Divine. 2 



(a) yftatprov. (6) 0&Xoy6>y. (c) ryv xpxatv 



(d) opyvj. (e) XMTX wyxptfftit. (/) 



(g) 6inor9)f&iri. (li) suropfot, looking into. (i) 



1 " He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved " (Mark xvi. 

 16). " Except a man be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of 

 God " (John iii. 3). " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, 

 he cannot enter into the kingdom of God " (ibid. 5). 



2 Here is enunciated the substance of what has been improperly 

 called " Mysticism " (to be distinguished from Quietism), viz. : " A 

 sacred and secret knowledge of God and of Divine things." Hermes 

 anticipates the sentiments of the Epistles and Homilies of the two 

 Egyptian Macarii. In Homily vi. (Edit. Pritius, 1598), are found 

 these expressions "'O Opovos Tq$ titoryiros o voi>$ yftow katt, x.ai irot'Aiy 

 o Qpoiios rov vw vj 0&rj? tart zal TO ^vlv^cx,? "The throne of the 

 Divinity is the Mind of us ; and again, the throne of the Mind is The 

 Divinity and The Spirit." See post, ch. x. 5, 6, and ch. xiii. 



