# Ἑρμοῦ τοῦ τρισμεγίστου Ἀσκληπιῷ εὖ φρονεῖν 10

Corpus Hermeticum, Ἑρμοῦ τοῦ τρισμεγίστου Ἀσκληπιῷ εὖ φρονεῖν, Section 10. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/corpus-hermeticum/text-12/10

εἰ δὲ πῶς μὲν αὐτὸς ποιεῖ, πῶς δὲ τὰ γινόμενα γίνεται βούλει μαθεῖν, ἔξεστί σοι ἰδεῖν εἰκόνα καλλίστην καὶ ὁμοιοτάτην. ἴδε γεωργὸν σπέρμα καταβάλλοντα εἰς γῆν, ὅπου μὲν πυρόν, ὅπου δὲ κριθήν, ὅπου δὲ ἄλλο τι τῶν σπερμάτων· ἴδε τὸν αὐτὸν ἄμπελον φυτεύοντα καὶ μηλέαν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τῶν δένδρων. οὕτω καὶ ὁ θεὸς ἐν μὲν οὐρανῷ ἀθανασίαν σπείρει, ἐν δὲ γῇ μεταβολήν, ἐν δὲ τῷ παντὶ ζωὴν καὶ κίνησιν. [ταῦτα δὲ οὐ πολλά ἐστιν, ἀλλ᾽ ὀλίγα καὶ εὐαρίθμητα· τὰ γὰρ πάντα τέσσαρα.] ⟨δύο γάρ⟩ ἐστιν, αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς καὶ ἡ γένεσις, ἐν οἷς τὰ ὄντα ἐστίν.

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Anonymous, Ἑρμοῦ τοῦ τρισμεγίστου Ἀσκληπιῷ εὖ φρονεῖν, 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg1286.tlg014.local001/.