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Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (84)
My son, first purify yourself toward the outward life, in order that you may be able to purify the inward.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXI (15)
Ob- serve this commandment and do it, my son, that thou mayst be upright in all thy deeds.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: The Benefit of Culture. (2)
For it is not by nature, but by learning, that people become noble and good, as people also become physicians and pilots. We all in common, for exampl...
Dhammapada
Chapter XVIII: Impurity (238)
Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise! When thy impurities are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt not enter again into birth...
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (346)
Say with your mind that the body is the garment of your soul: keep it, therefore, pure since it is innocent.
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (182-191)
Ho! seek aid of Him, not of another than Him Seek water in the ocean, not in a dried-up channel. On cleansing the inward temple of the heart from...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (38)
Think that your body is the garment of your soul; and therefore preserve it pure. Impure dæmons vindicate to themselves the impure soul.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IV: The Heathens Made Gods Like Themselves, Whence Springs All Superstition. (27)
"What disease, Orestes, is destroying thee?" Orestes. "Conscience. For horrid deeds I know I've done." For in reality there is no other purity but abs...
Dhammapada
Chapter XVIII: Impurity (239)
Let a wise man blow off the impurities of his self, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver one by one, little by little, and from time to time.
Dhammapada
Chapter XII: Self (158)
Let each man direct himself first to what is proper, then let him teach others; thus a wise man will not suffer.
Dhammapada
Chapter XVIII: Impurity (236)
Make thyself an island, work hard, be wise! When thy impurities are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt enter into the heavenly world...
Exegesis on the Soul
Baptism of the Soul (2)
So the cleansing of the soul is to recover the freshness of her former nature and to become as she was.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXII: The True Gnostic Does Good, Not From Fear of Punishment or Hope of Reward, But Only for the Sake of Good Itself. (11)
If, condemning ourselves for our former actions, we go forward, after these things taking thought, and divesting our mind both of the things which ple...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (79)
The flattering and lying Devil (who has possessed thy fleshly Heart) shall feel these 1 strokes (which he will not like) and then he Earnest Zeal of R...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CV (2)
Let me bring to thee grains of incense wherewith I may purify myself and may also purify thine own overflow
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXII: The True Gnostic Does Good, Not From Fear of Punishment or Hope of Reward, But Only for the Sake of Good Itself. (7)
Now purity is to think holy thoughts. Further, there is the image of baptism, which also was handed down to the poets from Moses as follows: "And she ...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (51-60)
Esteem not yourself mere sugar-cane, but real sugar. This outward 'you' is foreign to your real ' you;' Cling to your real self, quit this dual self....
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (27)
Beloved Mind, if thou hast a Desire to this Way, and wouldst attain it, and the noble Virgin in the Tree of Pearl, then thou must use great...
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...
Mundaka Upanishad
Third Mundaka, First Khanda (5)
By truthfulness, indeed, by penance, right knowledge, and abstinence must that Self be gained; the Self whom spotless anchorites gain is pure, and...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XIV (14.1)
Now be assured that no one can be enlightened unless he be first cleansed or purified and stripped. So also, no one can be united with God unless he...
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