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Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 20 (1)
'When one attends on a tutor (spiritual guide), then one believes. One who does not attend on a tutor, does not believe. Only he who attends, believes. This attention on a tutor, however, we must desire to understand.' 'Sir, I desire to understand it.'
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Introduction (11.5)
If at this stage one do not meet with this kind of teaching, one's hearing [of religious lore] — although it be like an ocean [in its vastness] — is...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Sixth Day (9.21)
At that time, thou must remember the teachings of the setting-face-to-face which thou hast had from thy guru. If thou hast remembered the purport of...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (44)
Through spiritual reading, the disciple gains communion with the divine Power on which his heart is set.
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (7)
My son, accept the education and the teaching. Do not flee from the education and the teaching, but when you are taught, accept (it) with joy. And if...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: The Use of Philosophy to the Gnostic. (13)
Those even who claim God as their teacher, with difficulty attain to a conception of God, grace aiding them to the attainment of their modicum of...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Instructions on the Symptoms of Death, or the First Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Primary Clear Light Seen at the Moment of Death (1.2)
The manner of application is: It is best if the guru from whom the deceased received guiding instructions can be had; but if the guru cannot be...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.68)
He who with supreme devotion in me will teach this profound philosophy to my devotees shall doubtless come to me alone.
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (20)
Now, if thou hast that spirit in thee, so that it enlighteneth, filleth and replenisheth thy spirit, then thou wilt understand what followeth in this...
Chaldean Oracles
And Daemons. (54)
The Intelligible Iynges themselves understand from the Father; by Ineffable counsels being moved so as to understand.
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (166)
It is not proper to understand that Intelligible One with vehemence, but with the extended flame of far reaching Mind, measuring all things except...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Son the Ruler and Saviour of All. (4)
This is the Teacher, who trains the Gnostic by mysteries, and the believer by good hopes, and the hard of heart by corrective discipline through...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Bardo Body: Its Birth and Its Supernormal Faculties (23.9)
Up to the other day thou wert unable to recognize the Chonyid Bardo and hast had to wander down this far. Now, if thou art to hold fast to the real...
Allogenes the Stranger
Youel: The Coming of the Powers of the Luminaries (3)
When [you receive] a conception [of that One, then] you [are filled with] the Word [to completion]. And then [you become divine] and [you become perfe...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVII: Philosophy Conveys Only An Imperfect Knowledge of God. (12)
And thence they love to be learners, and aspiring after knowledge, haste to salvation.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Instructions Concerning the Second Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Secondary Clear Light Seen Immediately After Death (2.5-2.6)
During this interval, the directions are to be applied [by the lama or reader]: There are those [devotees] of the perfected stage and of the...
The Masnavi
The Sufi's Beast (1-10)
What is it hinders me from expounding my doctrines But this, that my hearers' hearts incline elsewhere. Their thoughts are intent on that Sufi guest;...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (30)
Here the Learned of the Schools [or Universities] of this World must stand still, and the Scholar (born of God) must here begin to a learn concerning...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (101)
Here observe the sense and meaning; if thou apprehendest it, then thou understandest the Deity aright, if not, then thou art yet blind in the spirit.
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (14)
To which end the spirit inviteth and citeth, summoneth or warneth all men that are seduced into errors by the devil, that they come and present...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (24)
As little as a piece of work can apprehend him that made it, so little also can man apprehend and know God his Creator, unless the Holy Ghost...
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