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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 12: Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances may be highly considered. The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.] (14)
The third Temptation was the same into which the Devil also was fallen, with High-mindedness, [or Pride,] when he [Christ] was tempted to have flown from above, from the Pinnacle of the Temple, and should have elevated himself above Humility and Meekness; for the Meekness makes the angry Father, in the Originality, soft and joyful, so that the Deity [thus] becomes a soft and pleasant Essence.
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (98)
The second will was covetousness, which grew out of pride, for Lucifer thought with himself that he would reign over all kingdoms, as a sole god; all...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
V. Christ's Long Fast in the Wilderness—satan's Futile Wiles (5)
Then, in Jerusalem, the holy city, on a pinnacle of the temple, the devil saith unto Jesus, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (101)
This spirit also came at first from pride, for pride thought and said to itself, Surely thou art beautiful, and mighty potent; and covetousness...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (6)
Just in such a kind and manner also was the bitter quality in Lucifer, and [it] had no cause to elevate itself, neither had it any impulse to it from...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (96)
Here thou must know, that without, distinct from himself, he had no impulse at all to his pride, but his beauty and brightness deceived him. When he...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (75)
As lord Lucifer did, who saw the Son of God, and fell in love with that high light, and moved and stirred himself so very much, intending to be equal...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (35)
Now when the Heart of God with his meekness and love made haste towards Lucifer, he despised it, and thought himself far better than it, and then...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
V. Christ's Long Fast in the Wilderness—satan's Futile Wiles (8)
Again, up an exceeding high mountain, the devil sheweth him, in a moment of time, all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, and saith...