Hermes Trismegistus' "First Book" 7,8 and 9

This is a continuing series of explanations of Hermes Trismegistus' "First Book". I am attempting to separate out the lessons listed in Hermes first book, explaining each statement made by Hermes to the best of my ability and offering it to those who want my own personal interpretation. Of course, it becomes obvious that my answers are perceptions based on my own reasoning power, but I hope that some of these answers will spread some enlightenment to those who seek the answers from themselves.

7. And let this, O Son, be the end of Religion and Piety; whereunto when thou art once arrived, thou shalt both live well, and die blessedly, whilst thy Soul is not ignorant whether it must return and fly back again.

When one has achieved a state of enlightenment there is no need to continue to strive for such a state of bliss. Once ones religion has allowed one to gain a state of goodness which does not retrograde into the tribulation of existence one can focus on other aspects of growth and creation. The devoutness and piety fades because enlightenment is not something one escapes from and ones religion becomes second nature instead of something continually strived for. The state of enlightenment guarantees a negation of the fear associated with the unknown, namely death and one will accept the finality of existence and understand that with conception comes a grand creator that will nurture the spirit in the beyond.

8. For this only, O Son, is the way to the Truth, which our Progenitors travelled in; and by which, making their Journey, they at length attained to the Good. It is a Venerable way, and plain, but hard and difficult for the Soul to go in that is in the Body.