Hylé - Noten für Quartett für Querflöte, Klarinette in B, Violoncello + Klavier Jean-Thierry Boisseau

In hermetic philosophy, in the Corpus Hermeticum, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, hyle corresponds to "the matter of the world 2" as the first creation of God, and principle of the world: "It is necessary to know in the first place, that God and the World, which among the Greeks is called Hyle, was before anything else that God created."