48 HERMES TEISMEG1STUS. 



that being called Qamrog instead of the aQavarog. 1 For the 

 death is of destruction; but naught of those things in the 

 world is destroyed, for if the World is second God and 

 immortal animal, it is impossible for any part of the im- 

 mortal animal to die ; for all the things in the world are 

 parts of the world, and especially the Man, the rational 

 animal. 



2. For first of all really (a), and eternal, and nongenerate, 

 The Creator of The Universe (&), God. But the second that 

 after His image the World by Him engendered, 2 and by 

 Him held together and nourished and immortalized, as by 

 its own father, everliving as immortal. For the ever- 

 living (c) differs from the eternal (d). For The One was 

 not generated by another, and if it be generate, it was 

 yet not generated by itself but always is generate. For the 

 eternal in that it is eternal, is the Universe (e). And The 

 Father Himself, of His Own Self, is eternal, and the World 

 became (/) eternal and immortal by The Father. 



3. And so much of matter as was set apart by Him The 

 Father having embodied and swelled out (g) the Whole, 

 formed this sphere like, 3 placing around it such quality (h), 



(6) TUV 



(e) TO 'Tracy. (jf) yeyove. (g) oyxuaocg. (Ji) 76 



1 See the doctrine of Plato as to what death is (Phsedo, 67). 



2 Plato enunciates the same views in the Phsedon and in Timaeus 

 (33 and 41) : " For The God in His power willed that all things 

 should be good, and nothing Lad, and brought the Universe fully out 

 of disorder; for it neither was nor is possible that He should do 

 aught else but what is most beautiful ; thus having completed a work 

 that might be something most beautiful and perfect in its nature. 

 So then, according to the right reason, it behoves one to say that 

 this the Kotrpos became through the Providence of The God a living 

 creature (yov), endued in very truth with Soul and Mind." (See 

 Stobseus, Florilegium, Meineke, iv. 105). 



( 3 Plato thought that the xoV^o? was spherical in form. In the 

 i Timseus (33 and 62) he says : " He gave it figure O#jj^ce), the be- 

 coming, and the convenient ; for when about to encompass all living 

 beings in it, with living being (&XM), a figure would be becoming, that 

 comprehending in it all such like figures; wherefore also He described 

 it circular, spherelike from the centre, distant every way so far to 



