1. “The punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment” – Hermes Trismegistus
2. “For the sun is situated in the center of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown.” – Hermes Trismegistus
3. “He who through the error of attachment loves his body, abides wandering in darkness, sensible and suffering the things of death, but he who realizes that the body is but the tomb of his soul, rises to immortality.” – Hermes Trismegistus
4. “Philosophy is nothing else than striving through constant contemplation and saintly piety to attain knowledge of God.” – Hermes Trismegistus
5. “Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.” – Hermes Trismegistus
6. “The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike.” – Hermes Trismegistus
7. “O ye people, earth-born folk, ye who have given yourselves to drunkenness and sleep and ignorance of God, be sober now,cease from your surfeit, cease to be glamored by irrational sleep!” – Hermes Trismegistus
8. “This is what you must know: that in you which sees and hears is the word of the lord, but your mind is god the father; they are not divided from one another for their union is life.” – Hermes Trismegistus
9. “If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.” – Hermes Trismegistus
10. “But this discourse, expressed in our paternal language, keeps clear the meaning of its words. The very quality of speech and of the Egyptian words have in themselves the energy of the object they speak of. – Hermes Trismegistus
11. “If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like. – Hermes Trismegistus
12. “The present issues from the past, and the future from the present. Everything is made one by this continuity. Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever.” – Hermes Trismegistus
13. “Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven or, to be more precise, that everything governed and moved in heaven came down to Egypt and was transferred there? If truth were told, our land is the temple of the whole world.” – Hermes Trismegistus
14. “Man is the most divine of all the beings, for amongst all living things, Atum associates with him only – speaking to him in dreams at night, foretelling the future for him in the flight of birds, the bowels of beasts, and the whispering oak.” – Hermes Trismegistus
15. “Birth is not the beginning of life – only of an individual awareness. Change into another state is not death – only the ending of this awareness.” – Hermes Trismegistus
16. “As above, so below. As within, so without.” – Hermes Trismegistus
17. “Having made them rise, I became guide to my race, teaching them the words – how to be saved and in what manner – and I sowed the words of wisdom among them, and they were nourished from the ambrosial water.” – Hermes Trismegistus
18. “No eyes will raise to heaven. The pure will be thought insane and the impure will be honoured as wise. The madman will be believed brave, and the wicked esteemed as good.” – Hermes Trismegistus
19. “My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.” – Hermes Trismegistus
20. “The hearer must be of one mind with the speaker, my son, and of one spirit as well; he must have hearing quicker than the speech of the speaker.” – Hermes Trismegistus
21. “I long to learn the things that are, and comprehend their nature, and know God. This is, I said, what I desire to hear.” – Hermes Trismegistus
22. “Humanity looked in awe upon the beauty and the everlasting duration of creation. The exquisite sky flooded with sunlight. The majesty of the dark night lit by celestial torches as the holy planetary powers trace their paths in the heavens in fixed and steady metre – ordering the growth of things with their secret infusions.” – Hermes Trismegistus
23. “Such a person does not cease longing after insatiable appetites, struggling in the darkness without satisfaction. This tortures him and makes the fire grow upon him all the more.” – Hermes Trismegistus
24. “That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, to perform the miracles of one only thing.” – Hermes Trismegistus