Focus on Creation: Hermetica

Valentin Weigel. Van de betragting des levens Christi.
Manuscript on paper, ca. 1700

The unknown author of this manuscript which was copied after the edition of 1643 added a poem about the creator and man which is based on Corpus Hermeticum XIV: From Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius, a treatise based on the Maker and his Making and the direct experience of that Maker.

'The source, then, is God, of all that has been made. He has been revealed by what he has made. The maker and what is made, everything is because of him. Nor may the one be separated from the other. As it is impossible that the wonderful creator, in heaven and on earth, would be without his creature.'

[Cf. CH XIV, 3 and 5:]
'everything that has come about [is] visible, although He is not. Otherwise he would not be constantly engaged in bringing forth, to make it visible that He is [...] And they belong together. The maker cannot exist without that which he has made (otherwise he would not be a maker).'