Translation by Jean-Pierre Mahe

Nothing is uninhabited by God, for where heaven is, God is too, and where the world is heaven is too. I think that God is in heaven, and heaven in the world.

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Originally published as “The Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius”, in The Way of Hermes. Rochester: Inner Traditions, 1999.