The divine pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus / translated from the Arabic by Dr. Everard. (1650) With introduction & preliminary essay by Hargrave Jennings.

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1884
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    human Souls, that lay hold of immortality, are changed into Demons. 24. And so they go on into the Sphere or Region of the fixed Gods ; for there are two choirs or companies of Gods, one of them that wander, and another of them that are fixed : And so this is the perfect glory of the Soul. 25. But the Soul entering into the body of a Man, if it continue evil, shall neither taste of immortality, nor is partaker of the Good. 26. But being drawn back the same way, it returneth into creeping things ; And this is the condemnation of an Evil Soul. . 27. And the wickedness of a Soul is ignorance ; for the Soul that knows nothing of the things that are, neither the Nature of them, nor that which is good, but is blinded, rusheth and dasheth against the bodily passions; and unhappy as it is, and not knowing itself, it serveth strange bodies and evil ones, carrying the Body as a burden, and not ruling but ruled : And this is the mischief of the Soul. 28. On the contrary, the virtue of the Soul is Know- ledge ; for he that knows is both good and religious, and already Divine. 29. Tat. But who is such a one, O Father ? 30. Trism. He that neither speaks nor hears many things ; for he, O Son, that heareth two speeches, or hearings, fighteth in the shadow. 31. For God, and the Father, and Good, is neither spoken nor heard. 32. This being so in all things that are, are the Senses, because they cannot be without them. 33. But Knowledge differs much from Sense ; for Sense is of things that surmount it, but Knowledge is the end of Sense. 34. Knowledge is the gift of God ; for all Knowledge is unbodily, but useth the Mind as an instrument, as the Mind useth the Body.^ [35. Therefore,