122 HEEMES TEISMEGISTUS. 



Asclepius. If we place it in body, Child! we de- 

 clare it like the soul or the energies. For these being 

 incorporeal we say are in bodies. But the Sense is neither 

 energy nor Soul nor anything other of body beside the 

 aforesaid; it would not then be incorporeal; but if it 

 is not incorporeal, it would be body ; for of the Entities 

 must some be bodies, but some incorporeal. 



XIII. 



OF HEKMES FEOM THOSE TO AMMON. 

 (Stobceus, Physica, 741; Meineke, i. 203; Patrit., p. 40). 



THAT moved then is moved according to the energy of 

 the motion, that moving the Universe. For the Nature of 

 the Universe affords motion to the Universe, one indeed 

 that according to its power, but other that according to 

 energy. And this indeed permeates (a) through the entire 

 "World, and holds it together within, but that pertains to(&) 

 and encompasses it without, and they proceed (c) through 

 all things in common. And the Nature of all things pro- 

 ducing things generate affords produce (d) to those produced, 

 sowing indeed the seeds of itself and having generations 

 through moveable matter. But the Matter being moved 

 is warmed, and becomes fire and water, the one potent and 

 strong, but the other passive. But the fire opposing the 

 water, dried up somewhat of the water (e), and the earth 

 was generated sustained (/) upon the water. 1 But being 

 dried up around vapour (g) was generated from the three, 2 

 the water, the earth, and the fire, and air was generated. 

 These things came together (A) according to the reason 

 of the Harmony, hot with cold, dry with moist, and from 

 the concurrence (i) was generated Spirit and seed, analogous 



(a) ^ifatt. (&) vretpvjKM. (c) 



(d) <pvv)i>. (e) f%vjpeti/e rov v^etro;. (/) 



(#) &TfAo$. (h) ffvityhQi. (i) 



1 See Poemandres, ch. i. 5, 11, and ch. iii. 2. 2 See Gen. ii. 6V 



