# Stobaei Hermetica 21.2

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 21. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/21.2

⟨... τῶν αἰσθητῶν⟩ θεῶν· οὗτοι δὲ εἰκόνες εἰσὶ ⟨τῶν⟩ νοη[μα]τῶν ⟨θεῶν⟩. οἷον ἥλιος εἰκών ἐστι τοῦ ἐπουρανίου δημιουργοῦ [θεοῦ]· καθάπερ γὰρ ἐκεῖνος τὸ ὅλον ἑδημιούργησε⟨ν, οὕτω⟩ καὶ ὁ ἥλιος δημιουργεῖ τὰ ζῷα καὶ [γεννᾷ] ⟨τὰ⟩ φυτά [καὶ τῶν πνευμάτων πρυτανεύει].

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Anonymous, Stobaei Hermetica, ed. Walter Scott. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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