50 HERMES TR1SMEGISTUS. 



but the restoration of the earthly bodies is constitution (a) f 

 and the dissolution itself restores (&) to the indissoluble 

 bodies ; that is to say, the immortal ; and thus there be- 

 comes deprivation of the sense, not destruction of the 

 bodies. 



5. But the third animal, The Man, generated after the 

 image of the World, but having Mind, according to the will 

 of the Father beyond other earthly animals, not only has 

 sympathy with the second God, but also intelligence (c) 

 of the first ; for of the one it is sensible as of body, but of 

 the other it receives intelligence as of an incorporeal and 

 of the Good Mind (d). 



Tat. This animal, then, does not perish? 



Hermes. Speak well (e), Child! and understand what 

 God is, what the World, what an immortal animal, what a 

 dissoluble animal, and understand that the World indeed 

 is from The God, and in The God, but the Man from the 

 world, and in the world, but the beginning and comprehen- 

 sion (/) and constitution of all things is The God. 1 



CHAPTEE IX. 



Concerning Understanding and Sense (g), and that in The 

 God only is The Beautiful and The Good, lut elsewhere 

 not at all. 



1. YESTEKDAY, Asclepius ! I delivered the perfect 

 Discourse ; but now I consider necessary, consequential to 

 that,' tcTgo also through the discourse respecting Sense. 

 For sense and understanding seem indeed to have differ- 



(a) avaroiffig. (6) ek^oxx^itnetrxf. (c) 



(d) vov TOV otyaQov. (e) tvtpqpYia'ou. (jf ) 'Trs 



(cj) i/ojjffg&j, understanding ; diffdyvsas, sense. 



1 It seems evident from the contents of this Chapter, connected 

 with what precedes and what follows, that Poemandres, in mystical 



