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Apocryphon of James
The Messengers Disperse (2)
When we passed beyond that place, we sent our minds up further. We saw with our eyes and heard with our ears hymns, angelic praises and angelic rejoicing. Heavenly majesties were singing hymns, and we rejoiced too.
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXI (1)
They were stepping on flames of fire: Their garments were white [and their raiment], And their faces shone like snow.
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (34)
This is heavenly music, for here every one singeth according to the voice of his quality, and the prince leadeth the choir or chorus, as a chanter or...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXIII (5)
Whatever melody most sweetly soundeth On earth, and to itself most draws the soul, Would seem a cloud that, rent asunder, thunders, Compared unto the...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XX (7)
We paused immovable and in suspense, Even as the shepherds who first heard that song, Until the trembling ceased, and it was finished. Then we...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (147)
In this rising up the armies or companies of all the angels of the whole heaven become triumphant and joyful, and that melodious TE DEUM LAUDAMUS (WE...
Allogenes the Stranger
Allogenes' initial vision of the Barbelo Aeon: (3)
When I was seized by the eternal light, by the garment that was upon me, and was taken up to a pure place whose likeness cannot be revealed in the...
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, Caput IV (6)
Now we have, as I think, sufficiently contemplated, in the description of the super-heavenly Hierarchy, the incorporeal properties of the Seraphim,...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXII (1)
Oppressed with stupor, I unto my guide Turned like a little child who always runs For refuge there where he confideth most; And she, even as a mother...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XL (3)
And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before the Lord of glory.
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto VIII (2)
To any one who had those lights divine Seen come towards us, leaving the gyration Begun at first in the high Seraphim. And behind those that most in...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XIV (2)
ANSWER: "As long as the festivity Of Paradise shall be, so long our love Shall radiate round about us such a vesture. Its brightness is proportioned to the ar...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XV (2)
"What is that, Father sweet, from which I cannot So fully screen my sight that it avail me," Said I, "and seems towards us to be moving?" "Marvel...
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 12 (He entereth the first sphere)
"And I left that region behind me and ascended to the first sphere, shining most exceedingly, forty-and-nine-times more brightly than I had shone in...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVII (1)
What I beheld seemed unto me a smile Of the universe; for my inebriation Found entrance through the hearing and the sight. O joy! O gladness inexpress...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (24)
And now when it seeth and heareth the divine tone, tune and sound rise up, which is externally without it, then is its spirit affected and kindled wit...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (119)
So that the holy angels cannot sufficiently enough rejoice themselves, nor sufficiently enough converse, walk and most lovingly sport therein, nor suf...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXIX (4)
These standards to the rearward longer were Than was my sight; and, as it seemed to me, Ten paces were the outermost apart. Under so fair a heaven as ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXI (5)
And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens, And I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals, And between those crystals tongues o...
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 141 (Jesus and his disciples ascend higher)
When then Jesus said this, he chanted a song of praise in the great name. The regions of the ways of the midst hid themselves, and Jesus and his...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXVII (2)
And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went...
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