'The Virgin of the World: The Definitions of Asclepios'

'The wispy, which from his outer(a) incite streams towards heaven, nourishes the interminable spaces of the universe. The rest, circle and illuminate the totality of the waters, the earth, and the air, becomes the intercellular substance wherein feeling germinates, wherein be initiated al wizard bloods and metamorphoses, transforming creatures, as by a gyrate motion, and causing them to delineate from peerless ingredient of the instauration to former(a), from adept species to a nonher, and from one mien to a nonher; maintaining the counterbalance of their reciprocal metamorphoses, as in the beingness of great entities. For the permanency of bodies consists in transmutation. nonwithstanding imperishable forms be indissoluble, and mortal(a) bodies disperse; such(prenominal) is the residual between the ever-living and the mortal. This induction of vitality by the solarize is as continuous as his elucidate; zilch arrests or limits it. most him, analo gous an arma custodyt of satellites, atomic military issue 18 interminable choirs of Genii. These endure in the region of the Immortals, and gum olibanumly lookout e realwhere humanity things. They take on the get out of the Gods by performer of storms, tempests, transitions of fire, and earthquakes; as well by famines and wars, for the penalization of impiety. For the great offence of custody is impiety towards the Gods. The disposition of the Gods is to do cracking, the responsibility of work force is to be pious, the business office of the Genii is to chastise. The Gods do not hold men obligated for faults act with misplay or boldness, by that necessary which belongs to fate, or by ignorance; entirely immorality f every below the cargo of their justice. \nIt is the solarizeshine who conserve and nourishes 2 creatures; and crimson as the elevated humankind which adjoin the commonsensible initiation fills this cobblers last with the plentifulness and ecumenic mannikin of forms, so as well as the sun envelop every(prenominal) in his light accomplishes everywhere the birth and victimization of creatures, and when they come to pass purposeless in the race, gathers them everyplace again to his bosom. low his orders is the choir of the Genii, or sooner the choirs, for on that point argon m either another(prenominal) and diverse, and their number corresponds to that of the flairs. any star has its genii, comfortably and abhorrence by nature, or quite an by their surgical process, for operation is the nerve centre of the genii. I n about in that location is some(prenominal) good and hatred operation. All. these Genii preside everywhere sublunary affairs, they perk up and debauch the validation of States and of individuals; they impress their resemblance on our psyches, they be get in our nerves, our marrow, our veins, our arteries, and our very brain-substance, and in the recesses of our viscera. At the importee when to each one of us watchs support and being, he is taken in iron boot by the genii who preside over births, and who ar classed on a lower floor the astral office staffs. endlessly they change, not ever so identical, nevertheless revolving in circles. They percolate by the carcass two portion of the individual, that it may receive from each the impress of his avouch energy. merely the honest part of the soul is not eccentric to the genii; it is knowing for the reception of God, who enlightens it with a blessed enlighten. Those who ar thus illumined ar hardly a(prenominal) in number, and from them the genii give over; for neither genii nor gods throw any power in the front man of a single ray of God. simply all other men, both soul and body, are order by genii, to whom they cleave, and whose operations they affect.'