Editing Hermeticism (section)

====God as 'the All'====
In the [[Hermetica#Religio-philosophical Hermetica|religio-philosophical ''Hermetica'']], the ultimate reality is called by many names, such as God, Lord, Father, Mind (''[[Nous]]''), the Creator, the All, the One, etc.<ref>{{harvnb|Festugière|1944–1954|loc=vol. II, pp. 68–71}}; {{harvnb|Bull|2018|p=303}}.</ref> In the Hermetic view, God is both the all ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]]: ''to pan'') and the creator of the all: all created things pre-exist in God<ref name="Copenhaver 1992 216">{{harvnb|Copenhaver|1992|p=216}}.</ref> and God is the nature of the cosmos (being both the substance from which it proceeds and the governing principle which orders it),<ref>{{harvnb|Festugière|1944–1954|loc=vol. II, p. 68}}.</ref> yet the things themselves and the cosmos were all created by God. Thus, God ('the All') creates itself,<ref>{{harvnb|Bull|2018|p=303}}</ref> and is both [[Transcendence (religion)|transcendent]] (as the creator of the cosmos) and [[Immanence|immanent]] (as the created cosmos).<ref name="Copenhaver 1992 216"/> These ideas are closely related to the [[Stoic physics|cosmo-theological views of the Stoics]].<ref>{{harvnb|Festugière|1944–1954|loc=vol. II, p. 70}}.</ref>