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Passages similar to: The Three Principles of the Divine Essence — Chapter 23: Of the highly precious Testaments of Christ, viz. Baptism and his last Supper, which he held in the Evening of Maundy- Thursday with his Disciples; which he left us for his Last [Will,] as a Farewell for a Remembrance. The most noble Gate of Christianity.
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The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 23: Of the highly precious Testaments of Christ, viz. Baptism and his last Supper, which he held in the Evening of Maundy- Thursday with his Disciples; which he left us for his Last [Will,] as a Farewell for a Remembrance. The most noble Gate of Christianity. (49)
O thou Knave, if thou bringest not another Man than such to it, stay away from the Testament of Christ; thou art but art in such a Way; thy Prayer is false, it comes not from the Bottom of the Heart; thy Heart desires only the Pleasures of this World, and the a Driver receives thy Prayer, he is thy God; therefore consider what thou dost.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (173)
O thou blind man! how does the devil mock at thee? O, wherefore dost thou trouble heaven? Dost thou think thou wilt not have enough in this world? O...
The Masnavi
The Sufi's Beast (61-70)
Is made to revolve by the strokes of the King's hand. O man of double vision, hearken with attention, Many are the holy words that find no entrance...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (37)
But if thou wilt have experience of it in this world, give over thy hypocrisy, bribery and deceit, and thy scorning; and turn thy heart in all serious...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (15)
But if thou wouldst know what the true faith is, then observe: Thy heart must not qualify or cooperate with the four sons of the devil, in pride, cove...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 68: That nowhere bodily, is everywhere ghostly; and how our outer man calleth the work of this book nought (1)
But thus will I bid thee. Look on nowise that thou be within thyself. And shortly, without thyself will I not that thou be, nor yet above, nor behind,...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (18)
For God does not hear any man's prayer, unless his heart be fully directed and bent in obedience to God.
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (93)
If a simple man, that cannot place his words handsomely, cometh before him, then he taketh him up short, as if he were a dog; and if the man has any...
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (61-70)
Who will abide with thee in the house and abroad He will bring forth peace out of perturbations, How false pretensions to sanctity are O son, a...