In CH Book XIII, Hermes corrects Tat three times when Tat wants to personally praise God:
Tat - "This praise that you have told, father, I have also established in my cosmos."
Hermes - "Say 'in the intellectual cosmos,' child."
Tat - "In the intellectual cosmos, father. I have the power; your hymn and your praise have fully illuminated my mind. I, too, wish to send praise to god from my own heart."
Hermes - "Be not heedless, my child." Tat - "I say what I see in my mind, father. To you, god, genarch of progeneration, I, Tat, send speech offerings. God - you, father; you, lord; you, mind - accept from me what speech you want. For everything is accomplished by your willing it."
Hermes - "My child, send an acceptable sacrifice to god, the father of all, but also add 'through the word."'
Why do you think Hermes corrects Tat specifically these three times?
Wouter has an insight about this part, and I believe the same. It seems that Tat, although had an experience of Rebirth, haven't yet stablished on his Nous, hi is still getting Gnosis about it. In the Eight shows the Ninth (Nag Hamadi text) even though he is on the ogdoad and hearing the Ennead, still has questions about how to engage. If Tat is the function of the initiate, learning, this tells me that the Spiritual Path is a long path, full of doubts, and also full of learning and understanding.
We never stop learning, even if we had the most Beautifull Vision of the Good, that's only the beginning of the Good to come. like on CH IV 9
"[9] Thus, knowledge is not a beginning of the good, but it furnishes us the beginning of the good that will be known. So let us seize this beginning and travel with all speed, for the path is very crooked that leaves familiar things of the present to return to primordial things of old."
The spiritual path is one of many traps that deceit us. As the one that sees and things that's it, i have already arrived, Hermes tells me to keep silence, and contemplate this truths. (Love what I learned about contemplation on Theoria)
On this passage it riddles me the familiar things of the present, an the primordial things of old, What do you believe this means?