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Corpus Hermeticum XII
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018607
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Corpus Hermeticum XII
Each of the intellectual beings is an essence and their essence is identity, but each of the bodies in the universe is multiple. Since composite bodies have their identity in always causing one body to change to another, they preserve the incorruptibility of identity. Otherwise, for all composite bodies there is a number belonging to each. For without number, neither association nor composition nor dissolution can occur