“There is a double nature in the human soul — one part divine, the other mortal. If a man, after he has been made divine by the conversion of his soul, remains fixed in contemplation of the divine, then he becomes wholly divine. But if he surrenders himself to the temptations of the mortal part, he becomes a creature of passion. The divine law requires that each one choose what he will be.”
— Asclepius, 6 (Latin Hermetica), tr. Brian P. Copenhaver