Focus on Creation: Hermetica

Hermes Trismegistus. De potestate et sapientia Dei.
Venice, D. de Mediolano, 1493




Robert Fludd. Utriusque cosmi...historia.
Oppenheim, J.Th. de Bry, 1617

In Corpus Hermeticum I we find a creation story which shows much similarity with Genesis: the beginning is the moist primal matter, which came into existence out of a darkness finding its origin in the Light, God himself. In this indescribably restless chaos, order is slowly introduced by means of the Word, first between the lighter elements of fire and air, then between the heavier ones, earth and water. The planets are formed by the second Mind, Nous, issuing from God.