Note 159 — AUXILIARIES TO THE PERCEPTION OF INTELLIGIBLE NATURES.
Thomas Taylor translation
Hence, it is beautifully said in the Clavis of Hermes Trismegistus, “that the knowledge of the good [or the supreme principle of things], is a divine silence, and the quiescence of all the senses.” See, also, on this subject, a most admirable extract from Damascius, περι αρχων, at the end of the 3d volume of my Plato.