{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1286.tlg020.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1286.tlg020.local001","title":"Stobaei Hermetica","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"CORPUS HERMETICUM","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1286-corpus-hermeticum/","editors":["Walter Scott"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Hermetica. The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus.","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1924","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Proofreading","names":[]},{"role":"CTS conversion","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/ScottHermeticaVolOne/page/n383/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Stobaei Hermetica. ed. Walter Scott. Hermetica. The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1924. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1286.tlg020.local001","excerpt":"Θεὸν νοῆσαι μὲν χαλεπόν, φράσαι δὲ ἀδύνατον ᾧ καὶ νοῆσαι δυνατόν. τὸ γὰρ [ἀσώματον σώματι σημῆναι ἀδύνατον, καὶ τὸ] τέλειον τῷ ἀτελεῖ καταλαβέσθαι ⎡οὐ δυνατόν⎤, καὶ τὸ ἀίδιον τῷ ὀλιγοχρονίῳ συγγενέσθαι δύσκολον. τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἀεί ἐστι, τὸ δὲ παρέρχεται· καὶ τὸ μὲν ἀληθές ἐστι, τὸ δὲ ὑπὸ φαντασίας ⎡σκιάζεται⎤. [ὅσον οὖν τὸ ἀσθενέστερον τοῦ ἰσχυροτέρου καὶ τὸ ἔλαττον τοῦ κρείττονος διέστηκε,] τοσοῦτον ⟨διέστηκε⟩ τὸ θνητὸν τοῦ θείου. ἡ δὲ μέση τούτων διάστασις ἀμαυροῖ τὴν τοῦ καλοῦ θέαν. ὀφθαλμοῖς μὲν γὰρ τὰ σώματα θεατά [γλώττῃ δὲ τὰ ὁρατὰ λεκτά]· τὸ δὲ ἀσώματον καὶ ἀφανὲς καὶ ἀσχημάτιστον καὶ μὴ ἐξ ὕλης ⎡ὑποκείμενον⎤ ὑπὸ τῶν ἡμετέρων αἰσθήσεων καταληφθῆναι οὐ δύναται. ⎡ἐννοοῦμαι, ὦ Τάτ, ἐννοοῦμαι ὃ ἐξειπεῖν ἀδύνατον· τοῦτο ἔστιν ὁ θεός.⎤","divisions":[{"label":"Excerpt 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-1"},{"label":"Excerpt 2a","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-2a"},{"label":"Excerpt 2b","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-2b"},{"label":"Excerpt 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-3"},{"label":"Excerpt 4a","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-4a"},{"label":"Excerpt 4b","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-4b"},{"label":"Excerpt 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-5"},{"label":"Excerpt 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-6"},{"label":"Excerpt 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-7"},{"label":"Excerpt 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-8"},{"label":"Excerpt 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-9"},{"label":"Excerpt 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-10"},{"label":"Excerpt 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-11"},{"label":"Excerpt 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-12"},{"label":"Excerpt 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-13"},{"label":"Excerpt 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-14"},{"label":"Excerpt 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-15"},{"label":"Excerpt 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-16"},{"label":"Excerpt 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-17"},{"label":"Excerpt 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-18"},{"label":"Excerpt 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-19"},{"label":"Excerpt 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-20"},{"label":"Excerpt 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-21"},{"label":"Excerpt 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-22"},{"label":"Excerpt 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-23"},{"label":"Excerpt 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-24"},{"label":"Excerpt 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-25"},{"label":"Excerpt 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-26"},{"label":"Excerpt 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-27"},{"label":"Excerpt 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-28"},{"label":"Excerpt 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/#tlg1286-tlg020-local001-29"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1286.tlg020.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1286/tlg020/local001.json.gz"}}