Complete Hermetica (1505 Paris Edition)

...to grasp. He who had authority and power over all things emerged and broke through the Harmony harmonia: here refers to the Seven Spheres of the planets that govern the material world into the mortal and non-rational living things of the world / penetrating and dissolving the power of the circles. And he showed Nature / which slides downward: like the beautiful form of God. When he beheld Nature endowed with wonderful beauty / and possessing all the actions of the seven governors septem gubernatorum: the seven planetary deities (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon) who control Fate / and moreover possessing the very image of God Himself: he smiled upon her with immense love, as one who might see the reflection of human beauty in the water / or perceive a certain likeness of it upon the earth. Moreover, having glimpsed a form similar to himself existing within her—as if in water—he loved it. And he desired to unite with it. The effect followed the will immediately.

He then procreated a form lacking reason. Nature, having embraced that which she was borne toward with all her love, completely folded and mixed herself into him. For this reason, alone among all earthly living creatures, man is considered to be of a dual nature: mortal indeed because of the body / but immortal because of the substantial man original: "hominem ipsum substantialem"; the essential, spiritual archetype of humanity as opposed to the physical body himself. For he is immortal / and holds authority over all things: yet the other living things, which are mortal, are subject to Fate / and they suffer. Therefore, the superior Harmony did not stand in his way; but having fallen into the Harmony, he was endangered / and became a slave. He, being fortified with the fertility of both sexes / by Him who is the source of trees and rivers / and made watchful by Him who is watchful: is contained and subjected to His dominion.

TRISMEGISTUS. After these things, I said: "You yourself are the Mind of my reason." Then Pimander said: "This is the mystery which, until this very day, has been hidden from the human race. For Nature, mixing herself with man, brought forth a miracle / which overcomes the wonder of all miracles; for since he himself [belonged] to the harmony of those seven..."