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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 knows, though some natural Philosophers, Mathematicians, Astronomers, or Astrologers have...
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...
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...
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...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (21)
'Though sitting still, he walks far; though lying down, he goes everywhere. Who, save myself, is able to know that God who rejoices and rejoices not?'
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...
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 b Naturalists or Artists have undertaken to measure that Height and Distance, and have produced many strange and monstrous Devices. Indeed,...
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...
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...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (111-120)
That he might know all that is written on those tablets, A11 that should be first and last to endless eternity He taught him, with the knowledge of...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIII: All Sects of Philosophy Contain A Germ of Truth. (4)
Now it is written, "Abundance of the knowledge of wisdom will give life to him who is of it." And again, what is said is confirmed more clearly by...
Life of Pythagoras
FROM POLUS, IN HIS TREATISE ON JUSTICE. (7)
5. “Whoever, therefore, is able to analyze all the genera which are contained under one and the same principle, and again to compose and con-numerate...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (3)
Who is the One who watcheth o'er that order? For every order hath its boundaries marked out by place and number. The sun's the greatest god of gods in...
Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XV. (2)
“There was a man among them [i. e. among the Pythagoreans] who was transcendent in knowledge, who possessed the most ample stores of intellectual...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (6)
If thou would'st see Him too through things that suffer death, both on the earth and in the deep, think of a man's being fashioned in the womb, my...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 38: How and why that short prayer pierceth heaven (2)
In this time it is that a soul hath comprehended after the lesson of Saint Paul with all saints—not fully, but in manner and in part, as it is...
Asclepius
Section XXXIV (4)
And if thou should’st observe it as a whole, thou wilt be taught, by means of the True Reason, that Cosmos in itself is knowable to sense, and that al...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IV: Human Arts as Well as Divine Knowledge Proceed From God. (3)
Those who are wise in mind have a certain attribute of nature peculiar to themselves; and they who have shown themselves capable, receive from the...
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