God as Father and Good
The Hermetic understanding of God's nature.
God is understood in Hermeticism as the Father of all and as the Good itself. God creates from overflowing goodness, not from need. All that exists participates in this divine goodness to varying degrees.
God is the Good, and the Good is God.
This understanding connects Hermeticism to Platonic philosophy.
Corpus Hermeticum
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- What Hermeticism says about reverence
God is identified with the Good itself, and creation is attributed to overflowing goodness rather than to need. That takes bargaining out of the relationship.