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to us that contrary to covetousness I call Communica- 

 tion (a). That departing, I call moreover upon the Truth; 

 and the deceit flies and Truth becomes present Behold 

 how the Good is completed, Child ! the Truth becoming 

 present. For envy hath departed from us, and with The 

 Truth, The Good also hath become present along with Life 

 and light, and no more hath supervened any vengeance 

 of the darkness, but they have fled away vanquished by 

 assault. 



10. Thou hast learnt (6), Child ! the way of the Ke- 

 generation. The Decade l becoming present, O Child ! the 

 intelligent generation (c) has been constituted and expels 

 the twelfth (d) ; and we are made contemplators by the 

 generation. 2 Whosoever then hath obtained according to 

 the mercy, the generation according to God, having relin- 

 quished the bodily sense, recognises himself constituted of 

 Divine things and is rejoiced. 



11. Tat Become stable (e) by The God, Father! I ima- 

 gine (/), not with vision of eyes, but with that intellectual 

 energy through Powers. I am in heaven, in earth, in water, 

 in air. I am among animals, among plants, in the womb, 

 before the womb, after the womb, everywhere. But still 

 tell this to me how the vengeances of darkness being in 

 number twelve, are expelled by ten powers ? What is 

 this way, O Trismegistus ! 



12. Hermes. This the tabernacle (g), O Child ! which we 

 have passed through, is constituted out of the zodiacal circle 

 and that consisting of animal signs (h), being twelve in 



(a) xeivuvtctv. (6) syi/axets. (c) voepec 



(cl) scilicet, **/**. (e) 



(/) (potvrci^Qftou. (</) ffKqvo;. (h) 



1 The Decade was one of the perfect numbers of Pythagoras and N 

 Plato. 



2 " Adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply 

 virtue; and in your virtue knowledge, and in your knowledge tem- 

 perance, and in your temperance patience, and in your patience god- 

 liness, and in your godliness love of the brethren, and in your love 

 of the brethren love" (2 Pet. i. 5; and see Matt. v.). 



