The Corpus Hermeticum - The Key (8)

Hear from me now, o Tat, about God the Father

and how nature is an active expression of Its Being.

Nature, when seen through the eyes of the heart,

is a center of activity for the growth

of that which constantly moves and changes.

Unmoved by the active expression of nature,

God the Father is nonetheless a most exalted

and exemplary part of nature's ongoing unfoldment. 

More subtle than physical movement

and physical expressions of will,

God's Mind is the Topmost Willing Center of the Above and the Below.

Being the essence of all things,

God the Father is the Very Substance

which forms everything into Creation.

Radiant with the warmth of Life,

the Cosmos of the Sun is like a Father

to all that lives, but it itself is not the cause of the soul's existence.

Many point to the Sun as being

of an Original Nature and of being our Originating Nature,

but sadly they do not see that without God's Primal Will,

nothing can come to be without acknowledging

the existence of a Source that transcends every other known and visible Source.

Inspired by the Good and for the Good,

the Sun is but an instrument for God's Primal Will,

causing many miniature Sons of God to be born

with each turning of Its Celestial Wheel.

Being recognized as being the Good

is the chief reason for being born or reborn as a Son of God,

for the Sun reflects Its Rays of Illumination

by way of unifying with the miniature Son of God on Earth.

Replicating what is in the Above

while in the Below,

the Sun always shines on behalf of God the Father,

who is ever observant of Its Cosmos from a vastly distant distance.

Dazzled by your genuine insights 

into the nature of the Universe,

Hermes, my mind's eye has difficulty with beholding such a Vision.

Unlike the Sun, 

this Vision of Mine is not harmful to the eyes of the heart,

for this type of Splendor is intelligent enough 

to know when and where and to what extent a microcosm is in need of such Light.

Penetrating into the mind of immortality

with the harmlessness of a dove,

those who are adept in consuming this divine understanding of Life

often leave or spring forth from the physical body,

delighting in the pleasures of Heaven.

When shall I see and experience such wonderful phenomena, o Hermes?

The moment when you are left completely awestruck 

and have nothing left to say about the One and the All,

you will most certainly realize that God the Father 

is best understood in Divine Silence.

Completely motionless in body and soul,

those who look directly into God the Father

are incapable of recognizing anything else

besides God the Father afterwards,

for the Deification of Matter

has taken all of God's Beauty 

and stored it all in the essence of the soul.

What do you mean by Deification?

As all souls swam down the stream of the Universal Mind,

a change took place while in the course

of their swimming trajectory.

Many souls transformed into animals of the elements

whereas others became God like humans or Gods themselves.

The God like humans, who were most close to the Divine Nature,

quickly turned into the Assembly of Gods

that we now know of as the Seven Sacred Planets.

Deified beyond even the planets,

the True Knower is the Cosmic Principle of Knowing.

Regarding the less fortunate,

they often fight with their own shadows,

talking into thin air and for thin air.

Never wanting to hear of God the Father,

knowledge is sacrificed for sensation.

Throwing away the gift of learning, 

which is a gift from God,

the polarity of their being is not balanced out

by the equalizing weight of knowledge.

The Universe, being a division of Matter and Mind,

resembles the spherical rhythm of the human intellect.

Below the symbolic feet of God and man

lies the Crowned Glory of Matter,

being bound to the practicality of administrative affairs.

However, above the head region of God and man

is the aspiration for loftiness and immortality.

Spinning about Itself until it reaches the Crown of Its Creation,

the Cosmos that is in man moves from the purely physical

 to the purely spiritual.

Just as God the Father has to administer to

or take care of the lowest of creatures and ideals

before considering the Creation of New Universes,

so too does man need to begin by attaining

mastery on the physical plane before the same thing 

can be done on the spiritual plane.

Dominated by Its lower creation,

man is born to Matter and to the propensities of the physical body.

As active as the Universe and nature is active,

what can be accomplished by God the Father

is eventually accomplished by man, or more specifically, the Son of God.

Forming a Trinity within and without the Mind of the All

and the Mind of the Soul, 

God is the Origin of the Son of God as a Universe

and the Son of God as a Man.

Never in ignorance of mankind,

God the Father is always anxious

for Its Son to deliver Itself

through recognizing Itself as being Itself.

Until delivered, man is but a stick

that is tossed about by the winds of Life.

When the body of man is in its formative years of development,

hardly any weight is attached to its body,

making the Mind of the body feel as light as a feather.

In like manner,

when the soul rises up and out of the blood of the spiritual nature,

the vital principle of Life is made

as Divinely Colorless and Weightless

as the All Encompassing Spirit of the Mind.

Transformed into a body of Fire,

the Justice of the soul is delivered to all who are bound by the weight of Matter.

Sometimes too intense to endure while located on the physical plane,

the body of Fire, which is the spiritualized aspect of man's Mind,

leaps into the Air in order to soar free of the body down below.

With reverence, only the True Knower is capable of enduring

the separation of Mind from Matter, for once separated,

the Fire of Heaven is once again lit by the Fire of your Soul.

Regarding the irreverent,

no such separation from the elements is to be had,

for the Judgement of the whole wide world

comes crashing down on the heads

of those who wish to remain like the unreasoning animals of the world below.

Thinking that they can get away with murder,

they set the whole wide world on fire,

bringing the suffering of change to each and every embodied soul.

Deficient in the qualities of a good and knowledgeable mind,

o man, learn to pray to God with a reverent and sincere mind.

Establishing links with the various communities of souls,

the Gods support the life of man's Mind,

whereas man supports the life of everything that exists beneath man's feet.

God the Father, being above both the Gods and the unreasoning animals,

unleashes Its energies to play upon everything that exists,

sharpening the capacity of everything to reflect back everything upon Itself.

Mind is what connects man to the Gods

and the Gods to the One and the All.

Nothing is thus closer to Godliness

than a Mind that is Blessed by Its own Virtue.

Also above the Gods,

the Soul which is on Fire spans the perimeter of the Entire Cosmos

without even having to leave the Earth behind.

Truly and without deceit, 

God the Father is an Immortalized Man

who Knows the Cosmos by Knowing the condition of the Mind down below.

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