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Card #c293IR // #c293Synthesis

For the blessed God, the good Demon said or commanded the Soul to be in the Body, the Mind, in the Soul, the Word, or Speech, or Reason in the Mind, and the Mind in God, and that God is the Father of them all.

— In our words · Source: The Divine Pymander (Hermes Trismegistus (tr. Everard))

[Use when]

Use when modeling consciousness as layered hosting, not a flat single substance.

[Why it matters]

Nested containers — each layer hosts the next; God fathers the whole stack.

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