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 or by a most great Power, and constrained to keep its station.

12. These things, I understood, seeing the word of Pimander; and when I was mightily amazed, he said again unto me, Hast thou seen in thy minde that Archetypal Form, which was before the interminated and infinite Beginning? Thus Pimander to me: But whence quoth I, or whereof are the Elements of Nature made? Pimander. Of the Will, and Counsel of God; which taking the Word, and beholding the beautiful World (in the Archetype thereof) imitated it, and so made this World, by the principles and vital Seeds or Soul-like productions of it self.

3. For the Minde being God, Male and Female, Life and Light, brought forth by his Word; another Minde, the Workman: Which being God of the Fire, and the Spirit, fashioned and formed seven other Governors, which in their Circles contain