114 HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. 



Every Essence immortal, every Essence mutable. Every 

 Entity double ; None of the Entities is stable (a). Not all 

 things are moved by Soul, but Soul moves every Entity. 

 Everything passive (6) has sense, everything sensible is 

 subject to passion (c). Everything grieved and is pleased 

 a mortal animal; not everything pleased is grieved [but is](c?) 

 an eternal animal. Not every body is subject to disease (e); 

 every body subject to disease is dissoluble. The Mind in 

 The God; the reasoning (/) in the Man; the reasoning 

 in the Mind, the Mind impassible. Nothing in body 

 true, in incorporeal the whole without falsity. Every- 

 thing generate mutable, not everything generate cor- 

 ruptible. Nothing good upon the earth, nothing evil 

 in the Heaven. The God good, the Man evil. The 

 Good voluntary, the evil involuntary. The Gods choose 

 things good as good. The good rule (g) of what is great 

 is good rule ; the good rule the law. Time divine, human 

 law. Evil is aliment of World, Time corruption of Man. 

 Everything in Heaven unchangeable, everything upon 

 earth changeable. Nothing in Heaven servile, nothing 

 upon earth free. Nothing unknowable in Heaven, nothing 

 known (7i) upon the earth. Things upon earth are not in 

 common (i) with those in Heaven. All things in Heaven 

 blameless, all things upon earth subjects of blame. The 

 immortal is not mortal, the mortal not immortal. That 

 sown is not always generated, but that generated always 

 also sown. Two are the times of dissoluble body, that 

 from the sowing up to the birth, and that from the birth 

 up to the death. Of the eternal Body time is from the 

 birth only. The dissoluble bodies are increased and dimi- 

 nished. The dissoluble matter is changed about to the 

 opposites, corruption and generation ; but the Eternal either 

 into itself or into the like. Generation of Man is begin- 

 ning of corruption, corruption of Man of generation. That 



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