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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: 25 of 45
url: https://scriptura.si/works/corpus-hermeticum-mead/25/
cite: "Hermes Trismegistus (attributed), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Corpus Hermeticum and the Asclepius, section 25. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/corpus-hermeticum-mead/25/"
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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.

## 25. XIII. (XIV.) The Secret Sermon on the Mountain · 3 of 3

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/corpus-hermeticum-mead/25/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/corpus-hermeticum-mead/25/#p-N

[¶0] From Thee Thy Will ; to Thee the All. Receive from all their reasonable oblation. The All that is in us, O Life, preserve; O Light illumine it; O God in-spirit it.

[¶1] It is Thy Mind that plays the Shepherd to Thy Word, O Thou Creator, Bestower of the Spirit [upon all].

[¶2] 20. [For] Thou art God; Thy Man thus cries to Thee through Fire, through Air, through Earth, through Water, [and] through Spirit, through Thy creatures.

[¶3] ’Tis from Thy Æon I have found Praise-giving; and in Thy Will, the object of my search, have I found rest.

[¶4] Tat. By thy good pleasure have I seen this Praise-giving being sung, O father; I have set it in my Cosmos too.

[¶5] Her. Say in the Cosmos that thy mind alone can see, my son.

[¶6] Tat. Yea, father, in the Cosmos that the mind alone can see; for I have been made able by thy Hymn, and by thy Praise-giving my mind hath been illumined. But further I myself as well would from my natural mind send praise-giving to God.

[¶7] 21. Her. But not unheedfully, my son.

[¶8] Tat. Ay. What I behold in mind, that do I say.

[¶9] To thee, thou Parent of my Bringing into Birth, as unto God I, Tat, send reasonable offerings. O God and Father, thou art the Lord, thou art the Mind. Receive from me oblations reasonable as thou would’st wish; for by thy Will all things have been perfected.

[¶10] Her. Send thou oblation, son, acceptable to God, the Sire of all; but add, my son, too, “through the Word” (Logos).

[¶11] Tat. I give thee, father, thanks for showing me to sing such hymns.

[¶12] 22. Her. Happy am I, my son, that thou hast brought the good fruits forth of Truth, products that cannot die.

[¶13] And now that thou hast learnt this lesson from me, make promise to keep silence on thy virtue, and to no soul, my son, make known the handing on to thee the manner of Rebirth, that we may not be thought to be calumniators.

[¶14] And now we both of us have given heed sufficiently, both I the speaker and the hearer thou.

[¶15] In Mind hast thou become a Knower of thyself and of our [common] Sire.