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The Virgin of the World
By Hermes Mercurius Trismagistus tr. A. Kingsford, E Maitland
Various Hermetic Fragments – Part III
WHEREFORE the incorporeal vision comes forth from the body to contemplate beauty, lifting itself up and adoring, not the form, nor the body, nor the appearance, but that which, behind all, is calm, tranquil, substantial, immutable; that which is all, alone and one, that which is by itself and in itself, similar to itself, and without variation.
