68 HERMES T&ISMEGISTUS. 



CHAPTEE XL 



Mind to Hermes. 



1. Mind. Eestrain then the discourse, O thrice greatest 

 Hermes ! and call to remembrance the things said. But 

 as it has occurred to me to speak, I will not delay. 



Hermes. Many speaking many things, and those dif- 

 ferent, concerning the Universe and The God, I learnt not 

 the truth ; Do thou, Master, make plain (a) to me con- 

 cerning this, for to thee only would I confide the explana- 

 tion concerning these things. 



2. Mind. Hear, Child ! how The God and the Uni- 

 verse have themselves. God, The Eternity, the World, 

 the Time, the Generation. The God makes Eternity (&), 

 The Eternity the World, The World the Time; but The 

 Time the Generation. But of The God is as it were 

 Essence, The Good, The Beautiful, The Happiness, The 

 Wisdom ; of the Eternity the Identity (c) ; of the World 

 the Order ; of the Time the Change; but of the Genera- 

 tion, The Life and the Death. The Energies of The God 

 Mind and Soul, but of the Eternity permanence and im- 

 mortality, but of the World, restitution and redestruction, 

 but of the Time augmentation and diminution, and of the 

 Generation quality. The Eternity then is in The God, 



1 The World in the Eternity ; but the Time in the World, 

 and the Generation in the Time. And the Eternity in- 

 deed is stationed (d) around The God, and the World is 

 moved in the Eternity, the Time is accomplished (e) in the 

 World, but the Generation takes place in the Time. 



3. The fountain then of all things is The God, but 

 Essence- the Eternity, Matter the World; Power of The 

 God the Eternity, Work of the Eternity the World, not 

 sometime (/) generated, but always generated by the 

 Eternity; neither therefore will it ever be corrupted, for 



(a) ^loiffx^aov. (V) a-luuoe, wottt. (c) q 7 



(d) SOTYIKS. (e) mpxtovTou. (/) ov 



