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The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (40)
At the beginning of the centuries God used the mountains as nails to fix the Earth; and washed Earth's face with the water of Ocean. Then he placed Earth on the back of a bull, the bull on a fish, and the fish on the air. But on what rested the air? On nothing. But nothing is nothing - and all that is nothing. Admire then, the works of the Lord, though he himself considers them as nothing. And seeing that His Essence alone exists it is certain there is nothing but Him. His throne is on the waters and the world is in the air. But leave the waters and the air, for all is God: the throne and the world are only a talisman. God is all, and things have only a nominal value; the world visible and the world invisible are only Himself.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (60)
The simple saith, God made all things out of nothing. But he knoweth not that God; neither does he know what God is: for when he beholdeth the earth,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (83)
Then, as if paraphrasing the expression, "Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool," he adds: "But in great heaven, He is seated firm Upon a...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (48)
Thou seest in this world nothing but the deep, and therein the stars, and the birth or geniture of the elements: Now wilt thou say, God is not there?...
Concept of Our Great Power
Concept of Our Great Power (3)
Discern what size the water is, that it is immeasurable (and) incomprehensible, both its beginning and its end. It supports the earth; it blows in...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (43)
When thou beholdest the deep between the stars and the earth, canst thou say, That is not God, or, There God is not? O, thou miserable corrupted man!...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (1)
WHEN man beholdeth the deep above the earth he seeth nothing but stars, and clouds of water, and then he thinketh, Sure there must be another place,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 1: Of the first Principle of the Divine Essence. (1)
SEEING we are now to speak of God, what he is, and where he is, we must say, that God himself is the Essence of all Essences; for all is generated or...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (31)
It is very true, he is a Spirit, and in our Sight he is as nothing: And if we had not some Knowledge of him by the Creation, we should know nothing of...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (67)
This signifieth that when God created heaven and earth, and all the creatures, he nevertheless remained in his divine, eternal, almighty seat, and...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (9)
And as without its maker its is impossible that anything should be, so ever is He not unless He ever makes all things, in heaven, in air, in earth, in...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (33)
All things must have a cause or root, or else nothing will be.
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (23)
Wherefore nor nor time, surroundeth God; for He is All, and All surroundeth all, and permeateth all. Unto this Reason (Logos), son, thy adoration and ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (21)
As we see that here out of the Earth there springs Plants, Herbs, and Fruits, which receive their Virtue from the Sun, and from the Constellation: So...
Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Sacred Sermon (2)
All things being undefined and yet unwrought, the light things were assigned unto the height, the heavy ones had their foundations laid down...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (101-110)
Out of water, along with earth and sunshine! If you turn your eyes to their real essence, These two are far, far apart from each other! But let us...
Chaldean Oracles
Oracles from Porphyry (P.1)
There is above the Celestial Lights an Incorruptible Flame always sparkling; the Spring of Life, the Formation of all Beings, the Original of all...
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (20)
Observe this too, my son; that each one of the other lives inhabiteth one portion of the Cosmos - aquatic creatures water, terrene earth, and aery...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (39)
Consider these things about God: he is in every place; on the other hand, he is in no place. With respect to power, to be sure, he is in every place;...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 62: How a man may wit when his ghostly work is beneath him or without him and when it is even with him or within him, and when it is above him and under his God (5)
Above thyself in nature is no manner of thing but only God.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (9)
How then canst thou think that God has created the eternal Man out of the four Elements, or what has proceeded from them, which are but corruptible?
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