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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XV
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Bundahishn
Chapter XV (18)
Then the demons shouted out of the darkness thus: 'You are man; worship the demon! so that your demon of malice may repose.'
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (5)
Yea, he has ruled you, (ye) who are of the Demon-gods, and with an evil word unto action, as his ruler (governs) the wicked !
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (195)
When thou shalt see a Terrestrial Dæmon approaching, Cry aloud! and sacrifice the stone Mnizourin.
The Conference of the Birds
A King Questions a Dervish (3)
A heedless youth went to one who was fasting to complain of forty temptations of a demon. He said: 'The demon keeps me from the Way, and he has...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 30 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (6)
As they were questioning and debating in their council the (personified ) Worst Mind approached them that he might be chosen. (They made their fatal d...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (4)
For ye (are) confusing our thoughts , whereby men, giving forth the worst deeds, will speak , as of the Demon-gods beloved, forsaken by the Good Mind ...
Paraphrase of Shem
Sodom, City of Gnosis, Is Unjustly Burned (2)
And then he will appear in the four regions of the world. And when faith appears in the last likeness, then will her appearance become manifest. For t...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (3)
He who offers sacrifice to You the most is of the Lie-demon, and (he is a child) of perversion . In advance (are your) deceits whereby ye are famed in...
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. (63)
He [the Devil] supposed, [saying;] The Kingdom of this World is thine, thou shalt sport thyself according to thy Power with the Image of Man, which...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (4)
You rejoice [maliciously] with this; that the devil is in subjection to you, and ye suppose that ye are gods: Here I will describe the original and...
Paraphrase of Shem
Rebouel Is Beheaded (1)
"And at that time the light was about to separate from the darkness, and a voice was heard in the world, saying, 'Blessings on the eye that has seen...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (26)
O Man! here consider thyself, here thou seest from whence the devil and his fierce, wrathful malice has its original, as also God's wrath, and the...
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. (96)
Then the Devil mocked the Image, and Hell opened its The Soul. Jaws wide, and had the Bridle in their Essences, and continually drew them therewith...
The Masnavi
'Ali's Forbearance (31-40)
Is not the 'water of life' in the darkness? Are not spirits refreshed in that very darkness? Is not that silence the season of heavenly voices? For...
Paraphrase of Shem
Derdekeas Commands Nature to Give Birth (1)
"And I said to her, 'May seed and power come forth from you upon the earth.' And she obeyed the will of the spirit that she might be brought to...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (33)
Only, the spirit here setteth open for thee the gates of hell, that thou may see what is the condition of the devils and of hell, and what is the...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (12)
And in his pride he struck and smote himself with darkness and blindness, and made himself a devil, and that he must be, and abide so eternally. ["In ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (93)
And now when the Kingdom of Hell had this mighty Blow, and was thus overcome, then the Devil lost his Right in the Soul; yet he said in himself, Thou ...
Paraphrase of Shem
Demons Bring the Flood and the Tower of Babel (1)
For you are like the light. You possess a share of the winds and the demons and a thought from the light of the power of the astonishment. For everyth...
Apocryphon of James
Shame on You, Blessings on You (1)
You poor devils! You pretenders to truth! You falsifiers of knowledge! You sinners against the spirit! Do you still dare to listen when from the begin...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (73)
O thou fair excellent goddess! may thou not well prance and trick thyself therein, and in the meanwhile invite the devil into the new birth for a gues...
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