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With the religion of men and the divine presence of God complete, and with a fitting and venerable silence from the mouth of Hermes, while the souls and minds of each were hanging upon his words, the divine desire began to speak thus. TRIMEGISTUS. A circular symbol with a vertical line through it, similar to the Greek letter Phi.
Asclepius, every human soul is immortal, but not all in a uniform way; rather, some in one mode, others in another, at different times.
ASCLEPIUS Is not every soul of the same quality, O Trismegistus?
TRIMEGISTUS A circular symbol with a vertical line through it, similar to the Greek letter Phi. Asclepius, as you have learned from the true agreement of reason: did I not say this, that all things are one, and one is all things? As all things were in the creator before he created all things, and not without merit is he himself God, whose limbs are all things. Therefore, of this one who is all things, or he himself who is the creator of all, take care to remember throughout this whole dispute. Many things descend from heaven into the earth, and into the water, and into the air. Fire alone, which is carried upwards, vivifies what is below, serving it. But that which descends from on high is generative; that which emanates upwards is nourishing. Earth alone, standing in itself, is the receiver of all, and the reformative agent of all kinds which it has received. Therefore this whole, as you remember, which is the sum of all or all things, the soul and the world, are agitated, caught by nature; so varied by the quality of the multiform images of all things, lest there be hope that they are known by an infinite number of qualities. Yet they are united to this: so that the whole may be seen to be one, and all things from one. Therefore, the whole by which the world is formed: the elements are four: Fire, Water, Earth, Air. The world is one.