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Gnostic
Paraphrase of Shem
Shem Ascends, in Mind, and Recites the Litany (3)
And when the Pleiades separated, I saw clouds, which I shall pass by. For the cloud of the spirit is like a pure beryl. And the cloud of the hymen is like a shining emerald. And the cloud of silence is like a flourishing amaranth. And the cloud of the middle region is like a pure jacinth.
Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XVIII (5)
I saw the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw ⌈⌈the paths of the angels. I saw⌉⌉ at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above....
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XLI (4)
And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist, and of the clouds, and...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter CVIII (4)
And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I could not look over, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and t...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (106)
Now being drawn together, it looketh like azure or sky-colour blue, but when the light or flash riseth up therein, then it looketh like the precious...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XLI (3)
And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder, and the secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the earth, an...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Tabernacle in the Wilderness (23)
And that was one of the clouds of glory, which served the Israelites in the wilderness forty years. One on the right hand, and one on the left, and on...
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Jewish Apocrypha
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...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LX (20)
And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and ...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (20)
There seemeth to be a blue or azure sphere above the stars, whereby the place of this world is closed and shut out from the holy heaven, as men have...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XIV (8)
And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sp...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (111)
The whole nature of the heaven stands in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, and in the seventh consisteth nature or the apprehensibility of...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (148)
With or through the soul, I see it very well; but the firmament of the heaven is between, in which the soul hideth itself, and there receiveth its...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (32)
For thou seest that often the whole deep is very clear and pure, and then, in a quarter of an hour, is covered with watery clouds; that is, when the s...
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (16)
Now when the Heaven became clear [or pure,] and cleansed from the Earth and the dark Mist [or Dust] in the Concretion [or Driving together,] then in...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (150)
In such manner and colours the heaven of God's nature sheweth or presenteth itself in the rising up of the spirits of God: Now when the light of the...
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Gnostic
Fire and Sulfur and Asphalt (3)
Abrasax and Sablo and Gamaliel descend and bring those people out of the fire and the wrath, and take them above the eternal realms and the rulers of ...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (17)
Some are strongest in the quality of love, and those are a glance of the heavenly joyfulness, very light and bright; and when the light shineth on...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (26)
Thus it is plain to our Sight, how the starry Heaven, (or as I may better render it to the enlightened Reader) the Quintessence, (or the fifth Form...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LX (19)
And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is †glorious† both in light and in ...
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