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Passages similar to: The Three Principles of the Divine Essence — Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man.
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (69)
[Thus it is with the holy Priests,] as it was not Israel's Meaning (in Moses) concerning the Calf, to acknowledge it for that [the Calf] was Gold, and that the true God had made himself known to be otherwise; and also they had good Experience [of the true God,] by the Wonders [which were wrought] before Pharaoh; but they would thereby worship and reverence the absent God, and make a Remembrance and Worship of God for themselves: As King Jeroboam with his Calf- worship, where yet the Honour must be done to the true God.
Neoplatonic
V, Chapter XXIV (1)
The same things also may be learned from the distribution of the Gods according to places; and from this, and the partible dominion over each...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XI: Abstraction From Material Things Necessary in Order to Attain To the True Knowledge of God. (15)
Again, Moses, not allowing altars and temples to be constructed in many places, but raising one temple of God, announced that the world was...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XX (8)
Serve them not, nor worship them,
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Hermetic
Section XXXVII (5)
It is because of this, Asclepius, those [animals] which are considered by some states deserving of their worship, in others are thought otherwise; and...
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Sufi
The Man who made a Pet of a Bear. 1 (21-30)
The calf lowed through magic, And you bowed down to it, saying, 'Thou art my God.' The golden calf lowed; but what did it say, That the fools should f...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XII (2)
And he said, "Whathelp and profit have we from those idols which thou dost worship, And before which thou dost bow thyself ? *
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Neoplatonic
V, Chapter XXI (2)
As, therefore, in the visible descents of the Gods, a manifest injury is sustained by those who leave some one of the more excellent genera unhonoured...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, Caput III (12)
This, then, we do, as the Oracles say, "for Its remembrance." Wherefore the Divine Hierarch, standing before the Divine Altar, extols the aforesaid ho...
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Neoplatonic
V, Chapter I (1)
The doubt mentioned by you in the next place, is, as I may say, an inquiry which is made in common both by the learned and the unlearned, I mean...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, Caput III (15)
So that those, who have not partaken and are ignorant of things Divine, would not attain to thanksgiving, although the most Divine gifts are, in their...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, Caput V (2)
Thus the most holy Hierarchy of the supercelestial Beings has, for its initiation, its own possible and most immaterial conception of God and things...
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Neoplatonic
V, Chapter XXV (1)
If, therefore, these things were human customs alone, and derived their authority through our legal institutions, it might be said that the worship...
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Neoplatonic
V, Chapter XIV (2)
He, therefore, who wishes to worship these theurgically, in a manner adapted to them, and to the dominion which they are allotted, should, as they...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter VI: Prayers and Praise From A Pure Mind, Ceaselessly Offered, Far Better Than Sacrifices. (8)
Accordingly, they will represent Him as nourished without desire like a plant, and like beasts that burrow. They say that these grow innoxiously, nour...
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Neoplatonic
I, Chapter XXI (2)
This, therefore, is nearly the cause of our aberration to a multitude of conceptions. For men being in reality unable to apprehend the reasons of...
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Neoplatonic
I, Chapter XII (3)
Neither do the invocations which implore the Gods to incline to us, conjoin the priests to them through passion; but procure for them the communion...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, Caput IV (12)
And the supercelestial and superessential contemplation is source and essence, and perfecting power, of all our deifying holiness. For if our most Div...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XVIII: The Distinction Between Clean and Unclean Animals in the Law Symbolical of the Distinction Between the Church, and Jews, and Heretics. (2)
For this is the stability of those who part the hoof, those who study the oracles of God night and day, and ruminate them in the soul's receptacle for...
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Sufi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (22-31)
Like the earth or like a fetus I devour blood, If that 'Faithful Spirit' should shed my blood, At night I boil on the fire like a cooking-pot, It...
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Neoplatonic
V, Chapter XIII (1)
Subverting, therefore, in this manner the common absurd opinions concerning sacrifices, we shall introduce in their place true conceptions about...
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