(31) For without the Illumination thereof you will not understand this Mystery; for there is a strong Lock and Bar before it in the Spirit of Man, that must be first unlocked or opened. And that no Man can do, for the Holy Ghost is the only Key to do it with.

(6) One was of gold, and the other was of silver; First with the white, and after with the yellow, Plied he the door, so that I was content. "Whenever faileth either of these keys So that it turn not rightly in the lock," He said to us, "this entrance doth not open. More precious one is, but the other needs More art and intellect ere it unlock, For it is that which doth the knot unloose. From Peter I have them; and he bade me err Rather in opening than in keeping shut, If people but fall down before my feet." Then pushed the portals of the sacred door, Exclaiming: "Enter; but I give you warning That forth returns whoever looks behind."

(52) Therefore to him the porter openeth not, for he is a thief and a murderer, as Christ saith. Now, behold and mark, whether one can be in the right Way, and enter in by the right Door, if one be living in lawless freedom or license, or disregard of ordinances, virtue or vice, order or disorder, and the like. Such liberty we do not find in Christ, neither is it in any of His true followers.

(1) Those, then, that adhere to impious words, and dictate them to others, inasmuch as they do not make a right but a perverse use of the divine words, neither themselves enter into the kingdom of heaven, nor permit those whom they have deluded to attain the truth. But not having the key of entrance, but a false (and as the common phrase expresses it), a counterfeit key (antikleis), by which they do not enter in as we enter in, through the tradition of the Lord, by drawing aside the curtain; but bursting through the side-door, and digging clandestinely through the wall of the Church, and stepping over the truth, they constitute themselves the Mystagogues of the soul of the impious.

(77) Thou needest not to ask, where that Heaven is. It is in thy Heart, do but open it, the Key is here shown to thee.

(17) Only the Spirit shows thus much, that to them is delivered and intrusted the weighty Talent, and the Key; and they are drowned in the Pleasures of the Flesh, and have buried their weighty Talent in the Earth, and have lost the Key in their proud Drunkenness.

(111) For he goes and penetrates through all shut or closed Doors, Closets, and Births, and needs no Opening of them; as the Teeth cannot stay or hinder the Spirit or Breath from going or passing through them.

(94) that the Spirit first goes over the astringent and bitter Qualities unperceived, it signifies, that the Gate of God is every where in this World all over, wherein the Holy Ghost rules, and that the Heaven stands open every where, even in the Midst or Center of the Earth; and that the Devil no where can either see, comprehend, or apprehend the Heaven, but is a grumbling and snarling Hell-Hound, which afterwards first comes out from behind, when the Holy Ghost has built or raised to himself a Church and Temple, and destroys it in the Wrath, and bangs behind at the Word as an Enemy, who will not endure that a Temple of God should be raised or built in his Land or Country, whereby his Kingdom might be lessened or diminished. Of the Third Day.

(113) It further signifies, that the Holy Ghost in like Manner has an open Gate in the Wrath-house of this World, where he may drive and perform his Work, incomprehensibly as to the Gates of Hell, and where he gathers or collects a holy Seed to his eternal Praise, against, or without the Will of the strong, fast shut hellish Gates, and altogether incomprehensibly as to them.

(54) And this will happen to that man who hath not entered, or refuseth to enter in by the right Way and the right Door (which is Christ, as we have said), and imagineth that he would or could come by any other way to the highest truth. He may perhaps dream that he hath attained thereunto, but verily he is in error. And our witness is Christ, who declareth: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.”59 A thief, for he robbeth God of His honour and glory, which belong to God alone; he taketh them unto himself, and seeketh and purposeth himself. A murderer, for he slayeth his own soul, and taketh away her life, which is God. For as the body liveth by the soul, even so the soul liveth by God. Moreover, he murdereth all those who follow him, by his doctrine and example. For Christ saith: “I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me.”60 And again: “Why call ye Me Lord, Lord?”61 as if he would say, it will avail you nothing to Eternal life. And again: “Not every one that saith unto Me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in Heaven.”62 But He saith also: “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”63 And what are the commandments?

(18) The Spirit has a long time waited on them, and importuned them that they would once open the Door, for the clear Day is at Hand, yet they walk up and down in their Drunkenness, seeking for the Key, when they have it about them, though they know it not; and so they go up and down in their proud and covetous Drunkenness, always seeking about like the Country-man for his Horse, who all the while he went seeking for him was riding upon the Back of that very Horse he looked for.

(22) Behold! I tell thee a Mystery, so soon as the Door is set wide open to its Angle, all useless, fatnailed, sticking Bolts or Bars will be cast away, for the Door will never be shut any more at all, but stands open, and then the four Winds will go in and out at it.

(47) For the Soul, which apprehends the Word, has an open Gate in Heaven, and can be prevented by nothing; neither does the Devil see the Soul, because it is not in his Country or Dominions.

(112) But that the Lips stand open, when it is come hissing through the Teeth, it signifies, that he with his going forth out of the Heart of God, in the Creation of this World, has opened again the Gates of Heaven, and is gone through the Gates of God's Wrath, and has left the Wrath of God strongly shut and bolted up, and has left the Devil his eternal kindled Wrath-house close locked up, out of which he cannot come eternally.