Corpus Hermeticum — Treatise CH9, passage by passage
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- CH9.1 Yesterday, O Asclepius, I delivered the complete discourse; but now I consider it necessary,… — On thought and sense-perception — sister faculties, united in man
- CH9.2 For the Mind conceives all the thoughts: good ones whenever it takes the seeds… — The Mind conceives all thoughts — good from God's seed, evil from the daemon's
- CH9.3 For the seeds of God are few, but great and beautiful and good: virtue… — God's seeds are few but great — piety is the knowledge of God
- CH9.4 I return again to the discourse on sense-perception. It is a human thing, then,… — The cosmos, God's instrument — a farmer of life, place and craftsman of life
- CH9.5 And the bodies are from matter, in difference. For some are from earth, some… — Bodies from the four elements — why the cosmos is rightly named 'order'
- CH9.6 In all the living beings, then, both sense-perception and intellection enter in from outside,… — In the animals sense and thought are breathed in; the cosmos received them once from God
- CH9.7 But God is not, as it seems to some, without perception and without mind.… — God is not senseless but is all things — to think is to believe (the treatise closes)
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