# Stobaei Hermetica 3.15

Corpus Hermeticum, Stobaei Hermetica, Excerpt 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/stobaei-hermetica/3.15

νόησον οὖν, ὦ τέκνον, διαφορὰν ἐνεργείας ⟨καὶ αἰσθήσεως. ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἐνέργεια⟩ ἄνωθεν πέμπεται· ἡ δὲ αἴσθησις, ἐν τῷ σώματι οὖσα, καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου τὴν οὐσίαν ἔχουσα, δεξαμένη τὴν ἐνέργειαν φανερὰν ποιεῖ, καθάπερ αὐτὴν σαωματοποιήσασα. διόπερ ⟨τὰς μὲν ἐνεργείας ἀσωμάτους καὶ ἀθανάτους,⟩ τὰς ⟨δὲ⟩ αἰσθήσεις καὶ σωματικὰς καὶ θνητάς φημι εἶναι, ⟨ἐπὶ⟩ τοσοῦτον συνεστώσας ὅσον καὶ τὸ σῶμα· καὶ γὰρ συγγεννῶνται τῷ σώματι αἱ αἰσθήσεις καὶ συναποθνήσκουσι.

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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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