86 HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 



The God, and of Matter energy the Materiality, and of 

 Bodies energy the Embodiment (a), and energy of the 

 Essence the Essentiality, and this is The God the Universe. 1 

 23. But in the Universe there is nothing which is not 

 The God, whence neither magnitude, nor place, nor quality, 

 nor figure, nor time is about The God; for He is Universe (&), 

 and the Universe is throughout all things and around all 

 things. This The Word (c), Child ! venerate and wor- 

 ship (d). But worship of The God is one, not to be evil. 2 



() ffUftOtTOTYITOC. (&) 'TfOC.V. 



(c) rov hoyov. (c?) Kpoaxvvti xotl &py]ax,eae. 



1 See above, that this does not include Matter. 



2 In the First Epitome of Clement (Dressel's Edit. 17), according to 

 that Editor put together in the time of Jerome, the following is stated 

 to have been the teaching of St Peter: "Let them believe in One 

 Father Almighty, and in His only-begotten Son, generated from 

 Him in an unspeakable manner before the worlds, and in The Holy 

 Spirit from Him ineffably proceeding ; and let them acknowledge 

 One God in Three Subsistences, without beginning, without end, 

 everlasting, eternal, increate, irreversible, unchangeable, simple, 

 incomposite, incorporeal; invisible, untouchable, uncircumscribed, 

 incomprehensible, infinite, not understandible; good, just, all-power- 

 ful Creator of all creations, Autocrat of all things, all-seeing, all- 

 providing Supreme Lord and Judge." The words of Newton as to 

 the Deity are as follows: "^Eternus est et infinitus omnipotens et 

 omnisciens; id est durat ab seterno in seternum, et adest ab infinito in 

 infinitum. Non est seternitas et infinitas, sed seternus et infinitus; 

 non est duratio et spatium, sed durat et adest. Durat semper et 

 adest ubique, et existendo semper et ubique durationem et spatium 

 constituit." The same doctrine is laid down, Lact. Div. Instit., vi., 

 ch. v. ; and (quoting Hermes), vi., ch. 25, totidem verbis. 



