76 HERMES TEISMEGISTUS. 



having understood all these things together, times, places, 

 affairs, qualities, quantities, thou wilt be able to understand 

 The God. 



21. But if thou shouldest shut up the Soul of thee in 

 the body and debase it, and say, I understand nothing, I 

 can nothing, I fear the sea, I am not able to ascend into- 

 the Heaven, I know not who I (a) have been, I know not 

 who I shall be ; what with thee, and with The God ? for 

 thou canst understand nothing of things beautiful and good, 

 being a lover of the body, and evil. Eor the complete- 

 evil is the being ignorant of the Divinity (&) ; but the being 

 able to have known and to will and to hope, is the (c) 

 right way, peculiar (d) of the good, and smooth and easy; 

 journeying He will meet thee everywhere, everywhere will 

 He be seen, where and when thou dost not expect; watch- 

 ing, sleeping, sailing, journeying by night, by day, speaking, 

 silent ; for there is nothing which is not image (e) of the 

 Divinity. 



22. Hermes. Is The God invisible? 



Mind. Speak well ! And who is more manifest than- 

 He? Tor this very thing He made all things that thou 

 mayest discern Him throughout all things. This is The 

 Good of The God, this is His virtue, that He is apparent 

 throughout all things. For nothing is invisible, not even 

 of the incorporeal. Mind is seen in the understanding, 

 The God in the making. These things have to thee as to 

 so much been explained, O Trismegistus ! But all the 

 other things likewise consider with thyself and thou shalt 

 not be deceived. 



(a) yp-fiv. (b) TO Oetov. (c) svQtlix,. 



(d) /()/#. (e) 



