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Corpus Hermeticum VIII
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014088
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Corpus Hermeticum VIII
And the father took [the energy] and made it all into a spherical form with body and bulk. The matter that he invested with this spherical quality is immortal and its materiality is eternal. Further the father implanted in the sphere the qualities of forms, shutting them up as in a cave. He wanted to adorn what comes after him with every quality, to surround the whole body with immortality so that even matter, tending to separate from the composition of this body, would not dissolve into its typical disorder.