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title: "Corpus Hermeticum and the Asclepius"
author: "Hermes Trismegistus (attributed)"
translator: "G. R. S. Mead"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics"
section: 19 of 45
url: https://scriptura.si/works/corpus-hermeticum-mead/19/
cite: "Hermes Trismegistus (attributed), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Corpus Hermeticum and the Asclepius, section 19. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/corpus-hermeticum-mead/19/"
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# Corpus Hermeticum and the Asclepius

*Hermes Trismegistus (attributed), tr. G. R. S. Mead*

Poimandres and the other Hermetic tractates, with the Latin Asclepius, in Mead's 1906 English.

## 19. XI. (XII.) Mind Unto Hermes · 3 of 3

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/corpus-hermeticum-mead/19/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/corpus-hermeticum-mead/19/#p-N

[¶0] The greatest bad there is, is not to know God’s Good ; but to be able to know [Good], and will, and hope, is a Straight Way, the Good’s own [Path], both leading there and easy.

[¶1] If thou but sett’st thy foot thereon, ’twill meet thee everywhere, ’twill everywhere be seen, both where and when thou dost expect it not,—waking, sleeping, sailing, journeying, by night, by day, speaking, [and] saying naught. For there is naught that is not image of the Good.

[¶2] 22. Her. Is God unseen?

[¶3] Mind. Hush! Who is more manifest than He? For this one reason hath He made all things, that through them all thou mayest see Him.

[¶4] This is the Good of God, this [is] His Virtue,—that He may be made manifest through all.

[¶5] For naught’s unseen, even of things that are without a body. Mind sees itself in thinking, God in making.

[¶6] So far these things have been made manifest to thee, Thrice-greatest one! Reflect on all the rest in the same way within thyself, and thou shalt not be led astray.