or by custom and reason, or blameworthy according to revealed law, custom, and reason; and that He takes pleasure in all the pain in existence, and that He acquires knowledge anew after previously not knowing. They recite:

“All speech in existence is His speech;
Its prose and verse are alike to us.”

They also recite:

“You are not other than the universe; rather, you are its very self;
This secret is understood by one who has tasted it.”

There are other such well-known statements of theirs, in prose or verse. They claim that this is the realization of truth in which the Hermeses of the earliest ages believed