# Stobaei Hermetica 24.4

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 24. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/24.4

καταπέμπονται δὲ ἐκεῖθεν εἰς τὸ βασιλεύειν διὰ δύο ταῦτα αἱ ψυχαί, ὦ τέκνον· αἱ ⟨μὲν⟩ [γὰρ] καλῶς καὶ ἀμέμπτως δραμοῦσαι τὸν ἴδιον ἀΓῶνα, καὶ μέλλουσαι ἀποθεοῦσθαι, ἵνα κἀν τῷ βασιλεύειν ⟨εἰς⟩ τὴν τῶν θεῶν προγυμνασθῶσιν ἐξουσίαν· αἱ ⟨δέ⟩, θεῖαί τινες ἤδη οὖσαι, καὶ ἐΝ μικρῷ τινι παραθεμιστεύσασαι τὸν [ἐν] θε⟨ῖ⟩ον γνώμονα, ἵνα [μὴ] κόλασιν μὲν ἐν τῷ ⟨ἐν⟩σεσωματίσθαι ὑπομένωσι [δι᾽ ἀδοξίαν καὶ φύσιν], μηθὲν ⟨δὲ⟩ ὅμοιον ταῖς ἄλλαις πάσχωσιν [ένσαωματισθεσαι], ἀλλ᾽ ὅπερ ⟨προ⟩εῖχον λελυμέναι, τοῦτο καὶ δεθεῖσαι ⟨προ⟩έχωσιν.

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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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