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Hermes Trismegistus · Claude AI
Translated from the Latin as the manuscripts transmit it, after the edition of Walter Scott (Oxford, 1924). The numbers in the margin are the chapters. God, Asclepius, God has brought you to us so that you might be present at a divine discourse, and one of such a kind that it justly seems more divine in its reverent piety than all those that we have made before, or that have been breathed into us by divine power. If you look upon it with understanding, you will be filled to the full, in your whole mind, with all goods; if indeed there are many goods, and not one good in which all are. For the one is recognised to be consistent with the other: that all things belong to one, or that one is all things; for the two are so bound together that neither can be separated from the other. But this you will come to know, by careful attention, from the discourse that is to come. But you, Asclepius, …
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