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Apocryphon of James
Know Yourselves (7)
"And once again I appeal to you. I am disclosed to you as I am building a house useful to you when you find shelter in it, and it will support your neighbors' house when theirs threatens to collapse.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (24)
Behold, I will shew it thee once more, that so by any means thou may apprehend it, that this high work may not take place in vain without profit to...
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (53)
My friends! We are neighbours of one another: I wish to repeat my discourse to you day and night, so that you should not cease for a moment to long...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIX (13)
Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others, And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin; I tell you...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXXIII (6)
I am free from obstruction; and I come that thou mayest see me in the house where I repeat the ancient ordinances and words, as a guidance wherewith...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXII (24)
This house have I built for myself that I might put my name upon it in the earth : [it is given to thee and to thy seed for ever], and it will be...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (37)
But stay a little; thou hast given me also many a blow, I have experimental knowledge of thee, and here I will open thy door to thee a little, that an...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet XI (3)
I will go down to the Apsu to live with my lord, Ea, and upon you he will rain down abundance, a profusion of fowl, myriad(!) fishes. He will bring...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 46 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (2)
This know I, Mazda! wherefore I am thus unable to attain my wish , and why my flocks are so reduced in number, and why my following is likewise...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto VIII (6)
His eyes cast down, his forehead shorn had he Of all its boldness, and he said, with sighs, "Who has denied to me the dolesome houses?" And unto me:...
The Masnavi
Moses and Pharaoh. 1 (11-20)
I did not do what they told me for my good; Now house and treasure are lost and my hand is empty." You have taken your house on lease or hired it;...
The Masnavi
Moses and Pharaoh. 1 (21-30)
Saying, "Alas! that house belonged to me; Alas! the wind has carried off my dwelling Forever! 'O misery that rests on slaves!' In that house of mine...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXV (7)
I implore thy name, and as I have given thee to understand (that I know thee), grant me to rest in the Tuat, and that all my limbs be reunited
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 73: How that after the likeness of Moses, of Bezaleel and of Aaron meddling them about the Ark of the Testament, we profit on three manners in this grace of contemplation, for this grace is figured in that Ark (3)
Lo! ghostly friend, in this work, though it be childishly and lewdly spoken, I bear, though I be a wretch unworthy to teach any creature, the office...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (49)
But in this present time everything has a twofold source and quality; whatsoever thou buildest and sowest here in the spirit, be it with words, works ...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XV (4)
Their litter let the beasts of Fesole Make of themselves, nor let them touch the plant, If any still upon their dunghill rise, In which may yet...
The Masnavi
The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel (31-39)
You have said your say; now hear my answer, Though to you this time seems midnight, To the vulgar all parts of the world seem dead, And as to your...