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Chapter 2  
  The Chaldæan Oracles  
     
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 But God is He having the head of the Hawk. The same is the first, incorruptible, eternal, unbegotten, indivisible, dissimilar: the dispenser of all good; indestructible; the best of the good, the Wisest of the wise; He is the Father of Equity and Justice, self-taught, physical, perfect, and wise—He who inspires the Sacred Philosophy.
  
2.
 Theurgists assert that He is a God and celebrate him as both older and younger, as a circulating and eternal God, as understanding the whole number of all things moving in the World, and moreover infinite through his power and energizing a spiral force.
  
3.
 The God of the Universe, eternal, limitless, both young and old, having a spiral force.
  
4.
 For the Eternal Æon* —according to the Oracle— is the cause of never failing life, of unwearied power and unsluggish energy.
  
5.
 Hence the inscrutable God is called silent by the divine ones, and is said to consent with Mind, and to be known to human souls through the power of the Mind alone.
  
6.
 The Chaldæans call the God Dionysos (or Bacchus), Iao in the Phoenician tongue (instead of the Intelligible Light), and he is also called Sabaoth,* signifying that he is above the Seven poles, that is the Demiurgos.
  
7.
 Containing all things in the one summit of his own Hyparxis, He Himself subsists wholly beyond.
  
8.
 Measuring and bounding all things.
  
9.
 For nothing imperfect emanates from the Paternal Principle,
  
10.
 The Father effused not Fear, but He infused persuasion.
  
11.
 The Father hath apprehended Himself and hath not restricted his Fire to his own intellectual power.
  
12.
 Such is the Mind which is energized before energy, while yet it had not gone forth, but abode in the Paternal Depth, and in the Adytum of God nourished silence.
  
13.
 All things have issued from that one Fire. The Father perfected all things, and delivered them over to the Second Mind, whom all Nations of Men call the First.
  
14.
 The Second Mind conducts the Empyrean. World .
  
15.
 What the Intelligible saith, it saith by understanding.
  
16.
 Power is with them, but Mind is from Him.
  
17.
 The Mind of the Father riding on the subtle Guiders, which glitter with the tracings of inflexible and relentless Fire.
  
18.
 After the Paternal Conception I the Soul reside, a heat animating all things. …For he placed the Intelligible in the Soul, and the Soul in dull body, Even so the Father of Gods and Men placed them in us.
  
19.
 Natural works co-exist with the intellectual light of the Father. For it is the Soul which adorned the vast Heaven, and which adorneth it after the Father, but her dominion is established on high.
  
20.
 The Soul, being a brilliant Fire, by the power of the Father remaineth immortal, and is Mistress of Life, and filleth up the many recesses of the bosom of the World.
  
21.
 The channels being intermixed therein she performeth the works of incorruptible Fire.
  
22.
 For not in Matter did the Fire which is in the first beyond enclose His active Power, but in Mind; for the framer of the Fiery World is the Mind of Mind.
  
23.
 Who first sprang from Mind, clothing the one Fire with the other Fire, binding them together, that he might mingle the fountainous craters, while preserving unsullied the brilliance of His own Fire.
  
24.
 And thence a Fiery Whirlwind drawing down the brilliance of the flashing flame, penetrating the abysses of the Universe; for from thence downwards do all extend their wondrous rays.
  
25.
 The Monad first existed, and the Paternal Monad still subsists.
  
26.
 When the Monad is extended, the Dyad is generated.
  
27.
 And beside Him is seated the Dyad which glitters with intellectual sections, to govern all things, and to order everything not ordered.
  
28.
 The Mind of the Father said that all things should be cut into Three, whose Will assented, and immediately all things were so divided.
  
29.
 The Mind of the Eternal Father said into Three, governing all things by Mind.
  
30.
 The Father mingled every Spirit from this Triad.
  
31.
 All things are supplied from the bosom of this Triad.
  
32.
 All things are governed and subsist in this Triad.
  
33.
 For thou most know that all things bow before the Three Supernals.
  
34.
 From thence floweth forth the Form of the Triad, being preexistent; not the first Essence, but that whereby all things are measured.
  
35.
 And there appeared in it Virtue and Wisdom, and multiscient Truth.
  
36.
 For in each World shineth the Triad, over which the Monad ruleth.
  
37.
 The First Course is Sacred, in the middle place courses the Sun,* in the third the Earth is heated by the internal fire.
  
38.
 Exalted upon High and animating Light, Fire, Ether and Worlds.
  

 
 
 

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