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Passages similar to: Stromata (Miscellanies) — Chapter II: The Knowledge of God Can Be Attained Only Through Faith.
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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Knowledge of God Can Be Attained Only Through Faith. (3)
Nay, He has not even built one for Himself, since He cannot be contained. And though heaven be called His throne, not even thus is He contained, but He rests delighted in the creation.
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (6)
What House would ye build for me? I compass the Heaven with a Span, and the Earth with three Fingers. Also, I will dwell in Jacob, and Israel shall be...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (5)
The meaning is not, as if Heaven could comprehend, encompass or contain God the Father; for itself is made by the Divine Power: for Christ saith, 'My...
Enuma Elish
Tablet VII (57)
Since he created the realm (of heaven) and fashioned the firm earth
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (91)
For he cannot be expelled quite out, away, beyond God, into another Kingdom of Angels; but a Place must be reserved to him for a Habitation.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (19)
The true Heaven, wherein God dwells, is all over, in all Places [or Corners,] even in the Midst [or Center] of the Earth. He comprehends the Hell...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.10)
There are no chariots there, no spans, no roads. But he projects from himself chariots, spans, roads. There are no blisses there, no pleasures, no...
Enuma Elish
Other Accounts: Marduk Creation (OBV.9)
Of the holy house, the house of the gods, the habitation had not been made
Tripartite Tractate
The Father (5)
He is of such a kind and form and great magnitude that no one else has been with him from the beginning; nor is there a place in which he is, or from which he has come forth, or into which he will go; nor is there a primordial form, which he uses…
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. (22)
Yet you must not think, that God, who is in Heaven and above the Heaven, does there stand and hover, like a Power and Quality which has in it neither ...
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. (77)
Thou wilt say, How? God dwells in Heaven. O! thou blind Mind, full of Darkness; the Heaven where God dwells is also in thee, as Adam was both upon...
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. (73)
Did not he walk on Foot upon Earth? He did not ride in that Manner. He had not whereon to lay his Head. What Kingdom do you build for him? Where is...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (2)
Then presently he thinks God has made this thus, out of or from his predestinate Purpose, out of nothing: How then can God be in this Being? Or, can...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (97)
Thou must not think that perhaps in Heaven there is some Manner of Body which only is thus generated, which above all other Things is called God.
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
On Divine Names, Caput IX (8)
What other than that Almighty God remains Himself, in Himself, and is abidingly fixed in unmoved identity, and is firmly established on high; and that...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CI (8)
Has He not made the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein? Who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (77)
But thou must not think, as if God was tied to it, and cannot, or may not expel him from thence, if he should move or stir otherwise than God had cons...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (121)
I have wrote here how all is come to be, and how all is framed, formed, and imaged, and how the Deity rises up, yet notwithstanding thou must not thin...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (121-130)
In highest heaven. Know this for a surety. O beloved! Yet am I contained in the believer's heart! If ye seek me, search in such hearts!" He said...
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