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Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIII (93:13)
And who is there of all men that could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been shown the measure of all of them?
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. (21)
But how deep or how large the place of this world is, no man knoweth, though some physicists or astrologers have undertaken to measure the deep with t...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (70)
Who will be able to discover the counsel of the Almighty, or to speak of the Divinity, or to proclaim it correctly? If we have not even been able to...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (4)
The Bear up there that turneth round itself, and carries round the whole cosmos with it - Who is the owner of this instrument? Who He who hath set...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (97)
And when he says,- "How little, being a man, dost thou expect Wisdom for man? 'Tis hard for mortal mind The counsels of the gods to scan; and thou Was...
Concept of Our Great Power
Concept of Our Great Power (3)
Discern what size the water is, that it is immeasurable (and) incomprehensible, both its beginning and its end. It supports the earth; it blows in...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: God Cannot Be Embraced in Words or By the Mind. (6)
Accordingly Solon has written most wisely respecting God thus: "It is most difficult to apprehend the mind's invisible measure Which alone holds the...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (69)
Where is a man (who is) wise or powerful in intelligence, or a man whose devices are many because he knows wisdom? Let him speak wisdom; let him...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (25)
And greater thing than all; without e'en quitting earth, he doth ascend above. So vast a sweep doth he possess of ecstasy. For this cause can a man da...
Eugnostos the Blessed
Eugnostos the Blessed (2)
Rejoice in this, that you know. Greetings! I want you to know that all men born from the foundation of the world until now are dust. While they have...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter V: The Holy Soul A More Excellent Temple Than Any Edifice Built By Man. (1)
What work of builders, and stonecutters, and mechanical art can be holy? Superior to these are not they who think that the air, and the enclosing spac...
Chuang Tzu
Autumn Floods. (3)
"Very well," replied the Spirit of the River, "am I then to regard the universe as great and the tip of a hair as small?" "Not at all," said the...
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 96 (Of the gnosis of the word of the Ineffable)
"And amēn, I say unto you: They will know in what manner the world is established, and they will know in what type all those of the height are establi...
Testimony of Truth
Testimony of Truth (13)
No one knows the God of truth except solely the man who will forsake all of the things of the world, having renounced the whole place, (and) having...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (4)
Some naturalists [scientists] or artists have undertaken to measure that height and distance, and have produced many strange and monstrous devices....
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet I (1)
He who has seen everything, I will make known (?) to the lands. I will teach (?) about him who experienced all things,... alike, Anu granted him the...
Sefer HaBahir
Verses (22)
All agree that none were created on the first day. It should therefore not be said that Michael drew out the heaven at the south, and Gabriel drew it...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IV: Human Arts as Well as Divine Knowledge Proceed From God. (2)
And that Scripture calls every secular science or art by the one name wisdom (there are other arts and sciences invented over and above by human reaso...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (76)
For who is stronger than him, that he may prevent him? To be sure, it is he who touches the earth, causing it to tremble and also causing the mountain...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (60)
The simple saith, God made all things out of nothing. But he knoweth not that God; neither does he know what God is: for when he beholdeth the earth,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (54)
Although here the Tongue of Man cannot utter, declare, express, nor fathom this great Depth, where there is neither Number nor End, yet we have Power...
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