04/03/2024
The following passage comes from Book 11:20 of the Corpus Hermeticum. Out of all occult knowledge available, this is some of the most powerful.
Contemplate each sentence individually, allowing yourself to be absorbed in what they are saying, not once or twice but hundreds of times, and you will receive great understanding.
“Reflect on God in this way as having all within Himself as ideas: the
cosmos, Himself, the whole. If you do not make yourself equal to God you cannot understand Him. Like is understood by like. Grow in immeasurable size. Be free from every body, transcend all time. Become eternity and thus you will understand God. Suppose nothing to be impossible for yourself. Consider yourself immortal and able to understand everything: all arts, sciences, and the nature of every living creature. Become higher than all heights and lower than all depths. Sense as one within yourself the entire creation: fire, water, the dry and the moist. Conceive yourself to be in all places at the same time: in earth, in the sea, in heaven; that you are not yet born, that you are within the womb, that you are young, old, dead; that you are beyond death. Conceive all things at once: times, places, actions, qualities and quantities; then you can understand God.”