The Only Good

"There is none good - no, not one" - Jesus

[QUOTING]

AESCLEPIUS: What...is the incorporeal?

HERMES: It is Spirit, completely encompassed within Itself, free from all corporeality, free from error, free from suffering, intangible, immovable in Itself, containing everything; that from which the good, the truth, the archetype of the Spirit and the archetype of the Soul emanate like rays.

AESCLEPIUS: But what, then, is God?

HERMES: He is none of these, but the cause of their existence and of all that is, also of each creature in particular. He has left no space at all for the non-existent; all that exists comes into being from what is and not from what is not: for the non-existent lacks the ability of genesis while, on the other hand, what exists will never sease to exist.

God is not reason, but the Cause to which reason owes its being; He is not breath, but the Cause to which breath owes its being; He is not light, but the Cause to which light owes its being. Therefore, God should be worshipped as "The Good" and "Father", names which belong to Him alone and to no one else. For none of those called god, nor any man or demon, can be good in any degree, but God alone. He alone is good and no one else. All others cannot comprehend the essence of The Good. They are body and soul and lack the place where The Good can reside. For The Good comprises what is the essence of all creatures, both corporeal and incorporeal, both perceptible and those belonging to the world of abstract thought. This is The Good, this is God.

Therefore, never call anything else "good", because that is godless. And never call God anything other than The Good, because that, too, would be godless.

Indeed, all use the word "good", but not all understand what it is. That is why not everyone understands God and so, in ignorance, they call the gods and some men "good", although these can never be or become good because The Good is the absolutely unchangeable characteristic of God. It is inseparable from Him because, indeed, it is God Himself.

All the other gods, as immortal ones, are honoured by the name "god". But God is The Good not on the basis of homage but by virtue of His essence. The Essence of God and the essence of The Good are one: they form together the one origin of all races. Good is He who gives all and does not take anything. Therefore God is The Good and The Good is God.

May the nature and scope of what I have said, Aesclepius, provide you with preliminary knowledge regarding the essence of the All.

Corpus Hermeticum - Book VI

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The term "God" (capital "G"), as used above, in no way refers to the well-known Old Testament "god" that man has been misled with. That entity is what's known as a "nature god" or "race god". It is not the Divine One from which all originates. There are many different types of "gods" (small "g"), from evil to benign. However, there is only one God (capital "G"), The Oneness, The All.

God is The Only Good. We, the creations of the Un-Created, must make it our goal to link up, re-connect and merge once more with that Goodness.

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