# The Good In Hermeticism

Quotes in this article all come from Corpus Hermeticum.

> The good is what gives everything and receives nothing; therefore,
> god is the good, and the good is god.

> God's other name is 'father' because he is capable of making all
> things. Making is characteristic of a father. Prudent people
> therefore regard the making of children as a duty in life to be
> taken most seriously and greatly revered, and should any human
> being pass away childless, they see it as the worst misfortune
> and irreverence.

> The father, receiving the appetite for the good, by way of the
> sun, causes the begetting rearing of his children, for the good
> is the principle of making. But the good can come to be in none
> other than him alone who receives nothing but wills all things
> to be.

So making everything and giving them all with no return is therefore
the good, I guess.

Also, the good is in god alone and nowhere else.

> The good, Asclepius, is in nothing except in god alone, or rather
> god himself is always the good.

By this, the greatest evil in mankind is ignorance concerning god.
Because the good is only in god, it can't be in anything else.

Everything in the cosmos is therefore evil. However, this does not
mean that you can't have the good.

> Mind conceives every mental product: both the good, when mind
> receives seeds from god, as well as the contrary kind, when the
> seeds come from some demonic being.

You can have the good when you receives seeds from god. It would
mean that you start to make, and give everything with no return.