The Hermetica…The
Being of Atum
God is Oneness.
Everything is a part of one Supreme Being. Like the number one, which is
the source of all subsequent numbers, God is the source of all. Yet just as
when the number one is divided or multiplied by itself it remains one, so God
constantly remains the Oneness.
Because he unites every thing, his nature is paradoxical. He
is the creator who creates himself.
He is always hidden from us, yet he has no particular name, because all names
refer to him.
God is the Supreme
mind. He is everywhere and always. The human mind is an image of the
Supreme Mind. Through the power of the imagination it can roam the universe and
be, like God, in all times and all places. Hermes tells us that if we truly
understood the extraordinary power of the human mind, we would then know the
nature of God.
Everything exists as
an idea within the Mind of God. He creates all things, in the same way that
our own minds create thoughts. Just as the nature of mind is to think, so the
nature of God is to create. This is not something he did at the beginning of
time. he is doing it continuously. God
is ‘constantly creating creation’, and will never stop.
God is both the
material objects around us and the immaterial thoughts in our minds. The world
we see and sense is an illusion, however, compared to the great ideas which
only exist in the mind. Above all are the ideas of Goodness and Beauty. These
qualities belong to God alone. They can at best be found imperfectly in the
material world, but exist in all their perfection in the immaterial world of
the mind. They are so perfect that God is in love with them. God is in love
with himself.
The Hermetica
Timothy Freke &
Peter Gandy
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