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Book of Enoch
Chapter XLVIII (48:6)
And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before Him, Before the creation of the world and for evermore.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 23: Of the highly precious Testaments of Christ, viz. Baptism and his last Supper, which he held in the Evening of Maundy- Thursday with his Disciples; which he left us for his Last [Will,] as a Farewell for a Remembrance. The most noble Gate of Christianity. (21)
Thus we were foreseen [or elected] in Christ Jesus before the Foundations of the World were laid, that we should be his Angels and Servants in his...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (22)
St. Paul says; God foresaw [or elected] Man, before the Ground [or Foundation] of the World was laid: Here we find the Ground so very [plain or]...
Tripartite Tractate
The Process of Restoration (4)
The Father had foreknowledge of him, since he was in his thought before anything came into being, and since he had those to whom he has revealed him. He set the deficiency on the one who remains for certain…
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XVI (26)
And he blessed his Creator who had created him in his generation, for He had created him according to His good pleasure ; for He knew and perceived ^ ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: Human Nature Possesses An Adaptation for Perfection; the Gnostic Alone Attains It. (10)
Now that which has future He already said beforehand was good, the phrase concealing the truth by hyperbaton.
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (79)
Which indeed has been partly concealed from the Beginning of the World to this Time, and Man with his Reason could not comprehend it.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (63)
For that is the End of Nature, and has no such Essences; no comprehensible [or palpable] Thing enters therein; otherwise it would be a Filling and Dar...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (25)
And he is thus from Eternity to Eternity unchangeable: He never changed himself in his Being, neither will he change himself in all Eternity.
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (76)
For it is the Place which he has had from Eternity, before he was become a Creature, and that Salitter stood in the same Place, out of which he existe...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (31)
And this is the Select Place of the Glory of God, which God the Father, in himself, has made Choice of, wherein his Holy WORD or Heart is generated in...
Tripartite Tractate
The Incarnate Savior and his Companions (3)
Among all the others who shared in them, and those who fell and received the light, he came into being exalted, because he had let himself be conceived…
Tripartite Tractate
The Emanation of the Savior (6)
The one in whom the Father is and the one in whom the Totalities are <was> created before the one who lacked sight. He instructed him about those who searched for their sight, by means of the shining of that perfect light.…
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Son the Ruler and Saviour of All. (8)
He is then properly called the Teacher of the beings formed by Him. Nor does He ever abandon care for men, by being drawn aside from pleasure, who, ha...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (91)
For his Way which is before him is for the most Part hidden to me: But after him the Spirit sees, even into the highest and profoundest Depth.
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (129)
For this Prince is a Creature, and has a Beginning, but he is in God the Father, and is bound and united with him in his Love, as his dearly beloved S...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (19)
The Word spake, [said] is an eternal Word, and was before the Times of the Wrath, from Eternity in this Salitter, when it stood yet in the heavenly...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (44)
The Forming of this highly worthy Person is severally [done;] first there is the Word, or the Deity, which has had its Forming from Eternity in the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: The Use of Philosophy to the Gnostic. (16)
From afar certainly Law and Prophecy kept Him in view beforehand. And then the precursor pointed Him out as present. After whom the heralds point out...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (112)
This is now the true Birth or Geniture of the Deity, which has been so from Eternity in all Corners and Places whatever, and abides so in all...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Son the Ruler and Saviour of All. (12)
Those, then, who choose to belong to Him, are those who are perfected through faith. He, the Son, is, by the will of the Almighty Father, the cause...
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