(no subject)
Nov. 27th, 2002 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaThe Mind is of God's very essence - if such a thing as essence of God there be - and what that is, it and it only knows precisely.
The Mind, then, is not separated off from God's essentiality, but is united to it, as light to sun.
This Mind in men is God, and for this cause some of mankind are gods, and their humanity is nigh unto divinity.
For the Good Daimon said: "Gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods."
From The Corpus Hermeticum, Chapter XII: About The Common Mind
translation by G.R.S. Mead
The Mind, then, is not separated off from God's essentiality, but is united to it, as light to sun.
This Mind in men is God, and for this cause some of mankind are gods, and their humanity is nigh unto divinity.
For the Good Daimon said: "Gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods."
From The Corpus Hermeticum, Chapter XII: About The Common Mind
translation by G.R.S. Mead
