 Lipsius is indebted as well to the Corpus Hermeticum, which he frequently cites when dealing with the notion of Platonic ideas and their relation to God. Arguing that God is not only the divine fire of the Stoics but also the spiritus igneus (“fiery breath”), he quotes Posidonius and Hermes Trismegistus, with the aim of demonstrating that a similar view can be found in Christianity: no one sees God, and yet everyone sees God daily in all things (Physiologia Stoicorum I.7, citing Stobaeus, Eclogues I.2.19 and Corpus Hermeticum XI.16). He rejects, however, as incompatible with Christianity, the Stoics’ pantheistic equation of God with the world and their belief that the divine principle is corporeal (Physiologia I.8).