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The Ninth Book A Universal Sermon to Asclepius. 1. Hermes: All that is moved, O Asclepius, is it not moved in some thing, and by some thing? 2. Asclepius: Yes, indeed. 3. Hermes: Must not that, in which a thing is moved, of necessity be greater than the thing that is moved? 4. Of necessity. 5. And that which moveth, is it not stronger than that which is moved? 6. Asclepius: It is stronger. 7. Hermes: That in which a thing is moved, must it not needs have a Nature, contrary to that of the thing that is moved? 8. Asclepius: It must needs. 9. Hermes: Is not this great World a Body, than which there is no greater? 10. Asclepius. Yes, confessedly. 11. Hermes: And is it not solid, as filled with many great bodies, and indeed, with all the Bodies that are? 12. Asclepius: It is so. 13. Hermes: And is not the World a Body, and a Body that is moved. 14. Asclepius: It is. 15. Hermes: Then what kind of a place must it be, wherein it is moved, and of what Nature? Must it not be much bigger, that it may receive the continuity of Motion? And lest that which is moved should for want of room, he stayed, and hindered in the Motion? 16. Asclepius: It must needs be an immense thing, Trismegistus, but of what Nature. 17. Hermes: Of a contrary Nature, O Asclepius; but is not the Nature of things unbodily, contrary to a Body. 18. Asclepius: Confessedly. 19. Hermes: Therefore the place is unbodily; but that which is unbodily, is either some Divine thing or God himself And by some thing Divine, I do not mean that which was made or begotten. 20. If therefore it be Divine, it is an Essence or Substance but if it be God, it is above Essence; but he is otherwise intelligible. 21. For the first, God is intelligible, not to himself, but to us, for that which is intelligible, is subject to that which understandet