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The second Book of

Dost thou understand this vision, and what it meaneth? I shall know, said I: Then said he, I am that Light, the Winde, thy God, who am before that moyst Nature that appeared out of darkness; and that bright and lighful Word from the Wine, is the Son of God.

9. How is that quoth I? Thus, replyed he, Understand it: That which in thee seeth and heareth, the Word of the Lord, and the Winde, the Father, God, differ not one from the other; and the union of these, is Life.

Trismeg. I thank thee. Pimand. But first conceive well the Light in thy minde, and know it.

10. When he had thus said, for a long time we looked stedfastly one upon the other, insomuch,that I trembled at his Idea or Form.

11. But when he nodded to me, I beheld in my minde the Light that is in innumerable, and the truly indefinite ornament or world; and that the fire is comprehended or contained inor