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Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (16)
But return, my son, to your first father, God, and Wisdom, your Mother, from whom you came into being from the very first in order that you might fight against all of your enemies, the Powers of the Adversary.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (16)
Flesh and Blood in these high Things, nor upon the worldly Wisdom of the Universities, or high Schools; but that you should consider, that this Wisdom...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (21)
Right was thy thought, O thou! But how doth "he who knows himself, go unto Him", as God's Word (Logos) hath declared? And I reply: the Father of the...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (160)
It becometh you to hasten unto the Light, and to the Rays of the Father, from whom was sent unto you a Soul (Psyche) endued with much mind (Nous).
Apocalypse of Adam
The Fall of Adam and Eve (2)
God, the ruler of the realms and the powers, divided us in wrath, and then we became two beings. And the glory in our hearts left us, me and your...
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (41-50)
Wherefore the claims of God predominate over the mother's, Whoso acknowledges not God's claims is a fool. He who made mother and breast and milk...
Thunder, Perfect Mind
Thunder, Perfect Mind (7)
Take me into understanding from grief, and take me from understanding and grief. Receive me into yourselves from other places ugly and destroyed. And...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (174)
O thou miserable man, return, the heavenly Father has stretched forth both his arms and calleth thee; do but come, he will take thee into his love....
Corpus Hermeticum
13. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain (8)
Thus shall the mercy that flows on us from God not cease. Henceforth rejoice, O son, for by the Powers of God thou art being purified for the articula...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (36)
Now the fifth in order is the command on the honour of father and mother. And it clearly announces God as Father and Lord. Wherefore also it calls...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (15)
You only stand before the Door of Heaven, and you are gone forth with Adam out of the paradisical Heaven into the third Principle; yet you stand in th...
Sophia of Jesus Christ
Sophia of Jesus Christ (31)
And the bond of his forgetfulness bound him by the will of Sophia, that the matter might be through it to the whole world in poverty, concerning his (...
Apocalypse of Adam
Adam and Eve Are Awakened (3)
Then the god who created us created a son from himself and Eve, your mother. . . . I knew a sweet desire for your mother. And the vigor of our...
Tripartite Tractate
The Conversion of the Logos (5)
The one who is in the Pleroma was what he first prayed to and remembered; then (he remembered) his brothers individually and (yet) always with one...
Three Steles of Seth
The Second Stele of Seth (18)
You are divided among them and become a great male first-appearing mind. Father god, divine child, maker of multiplicity, in dividing all those who...
Sophia of Jesus Christ
Sophia of Jesus Christ (26)
The Holy One said to him: "I want you to know that First Man is called 'Begetter, Self-perfected Mind'. He reflected with Great Sophia, his consort,...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (50)
But if thou fightest and strivest with the devil, and keepest the gate of love in thy astral birth, and so departest from hence as to the body, then t...
Testimony of Truth
Testimony of Truth (15)
And he thinks about the power which flowed over the whole place, and which takes hold of him. And he is a disciple of his mind, which is male. He bega...
Tripartite Tractate
The Process of Restoration (6)
Those of whom he first thought that they should attain knowledge and the good things which are in it, they were planning - which is the wisdom of the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXVII: The Law, Even in Correcting and Punishing, Aims At the Good Of Men. (7)
It is essential, certainly, that the providence which manages all, be both supreme and good. For it is the power of both that dispenses salvation -...
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