# Stobaei Hermetica 25.4

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 25. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/25.4

ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἔχει οὕτως, ὦ μεγαλόφρων Ὧρε· [[μύστης δὲ ὥσπερ τῆς ἀθανάτου φύσεως καὐτὴ τυγχάνουσα, καὶ ὡδευκυῖα διὰ τοῦ πεδίου τῆς ἀληθείας, διεξελεύσομαί σοι τῶν ὄντων τὸ καθ᾽ ἕκαστον, ἐκεῖνό σοι φήσασα πρῶτον, ὡς δὴ]] τὸ ⟨μὲν γὰρ⟩ ὕδωρ σῶμά ἐστιν ἄλογον, ἐκ πολλῶν συγ⟨κε⟩κριμέΝον παρατεθλιμμένων εἰς χύσιν, ἡ δὲ ψυχὴ πρᾶγμα ἰδιοφυές, τέκνον, [καὶ βασιλικόν,] καὶ ἔργον τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ χειρῶν τε καὶ νοῦ, ⎡αὐτῷ θ᾽ ἑαυτῷ⎤ εἰς νοῦν ὁδηγούμενον. τὸ τοίνυν ἐξ ἑνὸς καὶ οὐκ ἐκ ⟨π⟩ολλῶΝ ἀδύνατον ἑτέρῳ ἀναμιγῆναι· ὅθεν δεῖ καὶ τὴν πρὸς τὸ σῶμα αὐτῆς σύνοδον [ἁρμονίαν θεοῦ] ὑπὸ ἀνάγκης γενομένην εἶναι.

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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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