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Gnostic
Allogenes the Stranger
Allogenes' response: (4)
[And] by means of a primary revelation of the universally prime Unknowable One-- the God who is beyond perfection--I saw him and the Triple-Powered One that exists in them all. I was seeking the ineffable and unknowable God of whom--should one know him--one would be completely incognizant, the one who mediates the Triple-Powered One, the one who subsists in stillness and silence and is unknowable.
Neoplatonic
That the Intellectual Beings Are Not Outside the Intellectual-principle: and on the Nature of the Good (11)
It is infinite also by right of being a pure unity with nothing towards which to direct any partial content. Absolutely One, it has never known...
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Hermetic
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (2)
He, then, alone who is not made, 'tis clear, is both beyond all power of thinking-manifest, and is unmanifest. And as He thinketh all things...
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Gnostic
The Father (6)
Not one of the names which are conceived or spoken, seen or grasped - not one of them applies to him, even though they are exceedingly glorious,...
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Gnostic
Eugnostos the Blessed (4)
He-Who-Is is ineffable. No principle knew him, no authority, no subjection, nor any creature from the foundation of the world, except he alone. For...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
On Divine Names, Caput I (4-5)
These things we have learned from the Divine Oracles, and you will find all the sacred Hymnology, so to speak, of the Theologians arranging the...
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Taoist
Hsü Wu Kuei. (19)
"Knowledge of the great One, of the great Negative, of the great Nomenclature, of the great Uniformity, of the great Space, of the great Truth, of...
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Neoplatonic
The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendent (13)
Thus The One is in truth beyond all statement: any affirmation is of a thing; but the all-transcending, resting above even the most august divine...
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Neoplatonic
On Free-will and the Will of the One (19)
Stirred to the Supreme by what has been told, a man must strive to possess it directly; then he too will see, though still unable to tell it as he...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
On Divine Names, Caput XIII (3)
Especially must this be known, that according to the pre-conceived species of each one, things united are said to be made one, and the one is...
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Hermetic
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (10)
He is the God beyond all name; He the unmanifest, He the most manifest; He whom the mind [alone] can contemplate, He visible to the eyes [as well];...
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Gnostic
The One (The One)
I asked if I might understand this, and it said to me, The One is a sovereign that has nothing over it. It is god and father of all, the invisible...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
On Divine Names, Caput VII (3)
In addition to these things, we must examine how we know God, Who is neither an object of intellectual nor of sensible perception, nor is absolutely...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
Mystical Theology, Caput I (1)
TRIAD supernal, both super-God and super-good, Guardian of the Theosophy of Christian men, direct us aright to the super-unknown and super-brilliant...
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Gnostic
Eugnostos the Blessed (10)
Now the Unknowable is ever full of imperishableness and ineffable joy. They are all at rest in him, ever rejoicing in ineffable joy, over the...
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Gnostic
Sophia of Jesus Christ (9)
"And he has a semblance of his own - not like what you have seen and received, but a strange semblance that surpasses all things and is better than...
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Gnostic
Teachings of Silvanus (80)
But he is revealed to everyone, and yet he is very hidden. He is revealed because God knows all. And if they do not wish to affirm it, they will be co...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
On Divine Names, Caput I (1)
Now then, O Blessed One, after the Theological Outlines, I will pass to the interpretation of the Divine Names, as best I can. But, let the rule of...
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Hermetic
Section XXXI (3)
That, then, which so transcends, which is not subject unto sense, [which is] beyond all bounds, [and which] cannot be grasped,—That transcends all...
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Gnostic
Chapter 96 (Of the mystery succinctly)
"Now, therefore, the mystery of the Ineffable knoweth wherefor all these have arisen of whom I have spoken unto you in openness, and through which...
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