{"collection":"Gnosticism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/gno/th3/th313.htm","path":"gno/th3/th313.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/gno/th3/th313.htm","text":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3, by G.R.S. Mead, [1906]\n(Title from Patrizzi (p. 38); followed by: \u201cFrom the [Sermons] to Ammon.\u201d\nText: Stob., Phys., v. 20, under heading: \u201cOf Hermes from the [Sermons] to Ammon\u201d; G. p. 70; M. i. 48, 49; W. i. 82.\nM\u00e9nard, Livre IV., No. ii. of \u201cFragments of the Books of Hermes to Ammon,\u201d p. 258.)\nAll things are born by Nature and by Fate, and there is not a [single] space bereft of Providence.\nNow Providence is the Self-perfect 1 Reason.\nAnd of this [Reason] there are two spontaneous powers,\u2014Necessity and Fate.\nAnd Fate doth minister to Providence and to Necessity; while unto Fate the Stars 2 do minister.\nFor Fate no one is able to escape, nor keep himself from their 3 shrewd scrutiny. 4\nFor that the Stars are instruments of Fate; it is at its behest that they effect all things for nature and for men. 5\n60:1 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u1f74\u03c2 \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2,\u2014complete in itself.\n60:2 That is, the Seven Spheres.\n60:3 Sc. of the Stars.\n60:4 \u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2.\n60:5 With this extract compare Exx. x., xi., xiii.","title":"Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. 3: I. Excerpts by Stob\u00e6us: Excerpt XII. Of Providence and Fate","type":"page"}