It is said that the veil between the spirit world and our earth is at its thinnest at this time of year. There is actually a brief discussion of this in the hermetic philosophical text the Asclepius (7b-8), preserved in Latin only. It is found in the Nock and Festugiere critical edition (vol.2) on pp.304-306, or in (my) translation on pp.89-90, which I have quoted a little of here.
Trismegistus: God's will is the very highest perfection inasmuch as since he is to have meditated and could have fulfilled this, he had achieved one and the same thing in an instant. Thus when God was considering the ουσιώδης ('essence') it wasn't possible to hold everything dear unless it was hidden by a worldly veil (mundanum integimentum). God had covered it in a corporeal house and it was to be all such kinds as he had anticipated, and out of each nature blending and mingling into one: however much he had kept back was to be enough. And so God formed man out of body and soul (that is, out of a mortal and an eternal part) from nature as an animal [or 'living being']. So by having been formed and each from its origin would be able to be satisfied with both wonder and speech, celestial and eternal, both to inhabit and govern only earthly mortality:... the cultivation of the earth, tending pastures, buildings, maintaining ports, taking voyages, establishing communication systems and services of other kinds coming into being. It is man who is the strongest at pulling humanity's fabric together, mutually... saved by the study and application of the arts and education, that God had not wanted a perfected world to be without. For necessity followed the teachings of God and accomplishment attended the will to do so. It is not credible that what had pleased God intended to displease him, since it will do and was intended to please him, that man would know many of the teachings beforehand.
Asclepius 8 (trans. Latham, 2020, pp.89-90 [Corpus Hermeticum - The Power and Wisdom of God Falcon Books Publishing]) probably translated from ancient Greek into Latin by Apuleius during the 2nd century of the Christian Era.
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