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Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.24)
These worlds would perish if I do not perform work; I would be the cause of the confusion of species and the destruction of these beings.
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLI (14)
O statuette there! Should I be called and appointed to do any of the labours that are done in the Netherworld, by a person according to his...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter VI (1)
O Statuette there! Should I be called and appointed to do any of the labours that are done in the Netherworld by a person according to his abilities,...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XLVII. Jesus Heals Man Born Blind—the Jews Crossexamine the Man—again: "I Am the Light of the World"—parable: "I Am the Door. I Am the Good Shepherd"—winter Feast of the Dedication—again He Eludes the Jews (3)
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
IX. John Extols Jesus—the Woman at the Well—"one Soweth, and Another Reapeth" (29)
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye are entered into their labor.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (151)
I would willingly take ease and rest in my meekness, if I were not put upon this work; but that God who has made the world is too strong for me, I am...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (27)
Nature laboureth with its utmost diligence upon this corrupted dead earth, that it might generate heavenly forms and species or kinds; but it...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (74)
This I write in the power and perfect knowledge of the great God, and I understand his will herein very well. For I live and am in him, and spring up...
Paraphrase of Shem
The Litany (7)
And you, Moluchtha and Soch, are from every work and every impure effort of nature.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 27: Who should work in the gracious work of this book
FIRST and foremost, I will tell thee who should work in this work, and when, and by what means: and what discretion thou shalt have in it. If thou...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIII (18)
Behold the earth will be destroyed on account of all their works, and there will be no seed of the vine, and no oil; for their works are altogether...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: The Blessedness of the Martyr. (17)
No mortal exists who has not toil; He buries children, and begets others, And he himself dies, And thus mortals are afflicted."
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCI (5)
For I know that violence must increase on the earth, And a great chastisement be executed on the earth, And all unrighteousness come to an end: Yea, i...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XLV (5)
And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing: And I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it: But the sinners and evil-doers shall not set...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XCIII (3)
And should I be led to the fields wherein the gods destroy him who answereth them, then shall the horns of Chepera be twisted back, then shall blindne...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (144)
Direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the Earth; for the Plant of Truth grows not upon the ground. Nor measure the motions of the Sun,...
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. (5)
Also I know very well that the children of the flesh will scorn and mock at me, and say I should look to my own calling, and not trouble my head...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of This World (10)
Another dangerous property of worldly things is that they at first appear as more trifles, but each of these so-called "trifles" branches out into...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIII (14)
And all these will come on an evil generation, which transgresseth on the earth : their works are uncleanness and fornication, and pollution and abomi...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (132)
And if the divine love were not yet in the whole nature of this world, and if we poor men and creatures had not in and about us the Champion in the fi...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (8)
But seeing somewhat is lent me from the Grace of the Power [or divine Virtue] of God, that I might know the Way to Paradise; and seeing it behoves eve...
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