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Corpus Hermeticum IX
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007401
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Corpus Hermeticum IX
For all things that exist are in god, Asclepius. They have come to be by god's agency, and they depend from on high, some of them acting through bodies, others moving through the psychic substance, or making life through spirit, or taking in the spent remains, which is as it should be. Or rather, to let the truth be shown, I should say that god does not contain these things. He is all of them, so he does not acquire them as something added from outside but gives them freely to the outside, and this is god's sensation and understanding, always moving everything. The time will never come when any of the things that are will be abandoned. When I speak of the things that are, I speak of god. For god holds within him the things that are; none are outside him; and he is outside of none.