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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (44)
Thou dear Soul, thus saith the high Spirit to thee; yield Infusion. up thy Mind here, and I will show it thee. Behold, what does comprehend thy Will, or wherein consists thy Life? If thou sayest, in Water and Flesh: No, it consists in the Fire, in the Warmth. If the Warmth was not, then thy Body would be stiff [with Cold,] and the Water would dry away; therefore the Mind and the Life consists in the Fire.
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (75)
Hearken, thou hast the sweet water in thee, pour that into the fire, and then the fire goeth out: If thou lettest it burn, then it consumeth in thee...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (92)
"For the fire will consume all, and causes a high rising in the source, and the meekness of the light causes entity or substantiality; viz. in the...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (18)
When then the mind doth free itself from the earth-body, it straightway putteth on its proper robe of fire, with which it could not dwell in an...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (91)
"Yet the fire giveth or holdeth forth to us a mystery of the eternal nature, and of the Deity also, wherein a man is to understand two Principles of...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (104)
Now in the body or fountain is the heat, which generateth the fire, and which is a form or kind of thing that a man can search into; and out of the...
Chaldean Oracles
Father. Mind. Fire. (20)
The Soul, being a brilliant Fire, by the power of the Father remaineth immortal, and is Mistress of Life, and filleth up the many recesses of the...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (99)
Then the water becometh an anguishing sweat, which stands between death and life, and so the fire of the heat cannot kindle itself: For the...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (24)
Well hast thou taught me all, as I desired, O Mind. And now, pray, tell me further of the nature of the Way Above as now it is [for me]. To this...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (71)
For when thou, in thy body, liftest thyself against anything whatsoever, be it in love or wrath, thou kindlest the quality of that against which thou ...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (90)
In thy heart, in thy veins, and in thy brain, thou hast thy spirit; and all the powers which move in thy heart, in thy veins, and in thy brain,...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (176)
If thou extendeth the Fiery Mind to the work of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body.
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (39)
But hearken, Friend, tarry yet a little while, and then give the bestial body for food to the worms: But when the total God shall kindle the seven spi...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (121)
Behold, thou understanding spirit: The spirit speaketh to thee, and not to the dead spirit of the flesh: Open wide the door of thy astral birth, and...
The Masnavi
Omar and the Ambassador (50-58)
Such is the power of the soul, O man of right views! Then what is the power of the Soul of souls? (God). Bread is the food of the body, yet consider, ...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (55)
For the astringent and fire-spirit holdeth it fast, and the meek water, which melteth from the body of nature in the kindling of the light, goeth thro...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (64)
Continuing: "Philosophers say there is no true solution of the body without a proceeding coagulation of the spirit, for they are interchangeably...