D6 HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 



Tat. I give thanks to Thee, Father ! having prayed for 

 me to assent (a) to these things. 



22. Hermes. I rejoice, Child ! at thy having gathered 

 in fruit from the Truth, the good things, the immortal 

 productions. Having learnt this from me, announce 

 silence of the Virtue ; to no one, Child, revealing the tra- 

 dition of the Eegeneration, that we may not be reckoned 

 as calumniators. For sufficiently each of us hath medi- 

 tated, I indeed as speaking, and thou as hearing. Men- 

 tally (&) hast thou known thyself and The Father that is 

 ours. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



To Asclepius. To le Rightly Wise, (c). 



1. Since the son of mine Tat, in thine absence, wished 

 to learn the nature of the Entities, but did not permit 

 me (d) to pass over any, as son and junior but lately 

 arriving at the knowledge of the particulars respecting 

 each one, I was compelled to speak more fully, in order 

 that the theory might become to him easy to follow. But 

 to thee I, having selected the principal heads of the 

 things spoken, have wished to commit them to thee in 

 few words, having interpreted them more mystically, as to 

 one of such an age, and scientific of their nature. 



2. If the things apparent have all been generated and 

 are generate, but those generated are generate, not of 

 themselves but by other; but many are the generated, 

 rather all the apparent and all the different and dissimilar, 

 and the generate are generate by other : there is some One 

 Who is doing these things, and He ingenerate and older 

 than those generated. For the generated I say are gene- 



(a) pot uhe7v. ( & ) votpuf. (c) tv Qpovttv. (d) 



