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leaf through a thousand divine and human beauties, recognize his Prayer. He says:

The Prayer of our Master Referring to Hermes Trismegistus, traditionally regarded as the "Master" or founder of these teachings. is addressed here neither to God, nor to men, nor to angels, nor to nature, nor to infernal spirits; but to his own labor and to his understanding, the fruit of his work and reflections; for it is well known, based on his way of expressing himself when he addresses his Thought or his Genius Genius From the Latin genius or Greek daimon, referring to an inner guiding spirit or the personification of one’s own divine intellect, rather than modern "brilliance." to know the things of the spirit, that he does not say: I desire to learn, but rather, I ardently wish that you reveal to me: I greatly desire this discourse, Chapter 1, Section 16, or, what is the same, clarify this discourse for me, which is entirely of the spirit without handiwork Original: "main-d'œuvre," used here to distinguish purely spiritual or intellectual effort from physical craftsmanship..

The Science of Numbers is the first of all the High Sciences; it is the simplest and the easiest of all. If you wish to understand the Science of Numbers, turn your understanding toward morality; morality and the Science of Numbers are but one; do you desire proof of this: as it is above, so it is below Original: "ce qui est en haut est comme ce qui est en bas." This is the foundational maxim of Hermeticism from the Emerald Tablet, suggesting that the laws of the spiritual world are mirrored in the physical world., with the physical Science of Numbers, the