Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Bibliography and abbreviations
- Corpus Hermeticum I
- Corpus Hermeticum II
- Corpus Hermeticum III
- Corpus Hermeticum IV
- Corpus Hermeticum V
- Corpus Hermeticum VI
- Corpus Hermeticum VII
- Corpus Hermeticum VIII
- Corpus Hermeticum IX
- Corpus Hermeticum X
- Corpus Hermeticum XI
- Corpus Hermeticum XII
- Corpus Hermeticum XIII
- Corpus Hermeticum XIV
- Corpus Hermeticum XVI
- Corpus Hermeticum XVII
- Corpus Hermeticum XVIII
- Asclepius
- Notes
- Indexes
Corpus Hermeticum X
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Bibliography and abbreviations
- Corpus Hermeticum I
- Corpus Hermeticum II
- Corpus Hermeticum III
- Corpus Hermeticum IV
- Corpus Hermeticum V
- Corpus Hermeticum VI
- Corpus Hermeticum VII
- Corpus Hermeticum VIII
- Corpus Hermeticum IX
- Corpus Hermeticum X
- Corpus Hermeticum XI
- Corpus Hermeticum XII
- Corpus Hermeticum XIII
- Corpus Hermeticum XIV
- Corpus Hermeticum XVI
- Corpus Hermeticum XVII
- Corpus Hermeticum XVIII
- Asclepius
- Notes
- Indexes
Summary
[1]“Yesterday's discourse, Asclepius, I entrusted to you. It is right that I entrust today's to Tat since it is a summary of the General Discourses delivered to him.”
“Therefore, O Tat, god the father and the good have the same nature – or rather activity; ‘nature’ is the term for {growth} and increase, which apply to things that change and move … while ‘activity’ 〈applies〉 also 〈to the〉 unmoved, to the divine, that is, {in which he himself wishes to include the human. Elsewhere} we have taught about divine as well as human activities, which one must now understand in the same sense as on those other occasions.”
[2]“God's activity is will, and his essence is to will all things to be. For what are god the father and the good but the being of all things and, of things that are no longer, at least the very substance of their existence. This is god, this is the father, this is the good, to whom nothing else belongs. For the cosmos, 〈as〉 also the sun, is itself the father of things that exist by participation, but for living things it is not also – equally with god – the cause of the good nor of life.[…]
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- HermeticaThe Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction, pp. 30 - 36Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992