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Hermes Trismegistus.
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18. For All things, are but Two things, That which maketh, and that which is made; and the One of them cannot depart, or be divided from the other.

19. For neither is it possible, that the Maker should be without the thing made, for either of them is the self-same thing; therefore cannot the One of them be separated from the other, no more then a thing can be separated from it self.

20. For if he that makes be nothing else, but that which makes alone, simple, uncompounded, it is of necessity, that he makes the same thing to himself, to whom it is the Generation of him that maketh to be also All that is made.

21. For that which is generated or made, must necessarily be generated or made by another, but without the Maker that which is made, neither is made, nor is; for the one of them without the other, hath lost his pro-