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Hermes Trismegistus – Treatise XVI
Identifier
006019
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
God = Ultimate Intelligence
Sun and moon = Creator and Created symbolically
God makes himself = whatever the creator forces create eventually become functionally part of the Ultimate Intelligence - see Intelligence hierarchy
A description of the experience
Hermes Trismegistus – Treatise XVI
The intelligible kosmos then is dependent on God; and the Sun receives from God, through the intelligible kosmos, the influx of good with which he is supplied..... God then is the source of all; the Sun is the Demiurgus and the kosmos is the instrument by means of which the Demiurgus works.......... therefore in making all things, God makes himself. And it is impossible that he should ever cease from making; for God himself can never cease to be