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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self - Restraint. (8)
"For it is these, it is these that go through our bowels, And throw into disorder men's hearts."
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (11)
Yea, these will destroy my life, for they consult with the great of the wicked (enlightening themselves by their words ). And they are seizing away...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 52: How these young presumptuous disciples misunderstand this word in, and of the deceits that follow thereon (1)
They read and hear well said that they should leave outward working with their wits, and work inwards: and because that they know not which is inward ...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (4)
For ye (are) confusing our thoughts , whereby men, giving forth the worst deeds, will speak , as of the Demon-gods beloved, forsaken by the Good Mind ...
The Masnavi
The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant (21-30)
Thou art asleep, and the smell of that forbidden fruit Ascends to the azure skies, Ascends along with thy foul breath, Till it overpowers heaven with ...
Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (16)
Now these are the foods with which the devil lies in wait for us. First he injects a pain into your heart until you have heartache on account of a...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (39)
The entrails or guts signify the operation of the stars, or their consuming of all that which is proceeded from their power, for whatsoever they...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XII (3)
O blind cupidity, O wrath insane, That spurs us onward so in our short life, And in the eternal then so badly steeps us! I saw an ample moat bent...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXXVII. Pharisees Querulous—tradition of the Elders: Unwashen Hands—washing of Pots Not the Whole of Godliness—blind Leaders of the Blind (13)
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man: for from within, out of the heart of men, proceed ...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXXVII. Pharisees Querulous—tradition of the Elders: Unwashen Hands—washing of Pots Not the Whole of Godliness—blind Leaders of the Blind (12)
Are ye also yet so without understanding? Do not ye yet perceive that whatsoever thing from without entereth into a man, entereth in at the mouth,...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 34 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (8)
Through these our deeds (of sacrifice and zeal ), they are terrified among whom there was (once) destruction, and for many (at the time) when the...
Bhagavad Gita
Śhraddhā Traya Vibhāga Yoga (17.5)
Those vain and conceited men who, impelled by the force of their lust and attachment, subject themselves to severe austerities not ordained by the...
The Path of Light
Chapter 6: The Perfect Long-Suffering (15)
This is in sooth a deadly hook in the hands of the fisher Passion; the wardens of hell will take thee thence in purchase and seethe thee in their...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XII (5)
Upon his right breast Chiron wheeled about, And said to Nessus: "Turn and do thou guide them, And warn aside, if other band may meet you." We with...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LIII (5)
And he said unto me: 'They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this earth, that they may thereby be destroyed.
Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (11)
Our hearts are set on the things that exist, though we are ill (and) feeble (and) in pain. But there is a great strength hidden within us.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 54: How that by virtue of this work a man is governed full wisely, and made full seemly as well in body as in soul (4)
Truly I trow, unless they have grace to leave off such piping hypocrisy, that betwixt that privy pride in their hearts within and such meek words with...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXIII (10)
Now they shall say unto themselves: 'Our souls are full of unrighteous gain, but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto III (5)
Thereat were quieted the fleecy cheeks Of him the ferryman of the livid fen, Who round about his eyes had wheels of flame. But all those souls who...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XII (4)
Thousands and thousands go about the moat Shooting with shafts whatever soul emerges Out of the blood, more than his crime allots." Near we...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 53 — Vahishtoishti Gatha (6)
[Thus real are these things, ye men and ye women !] from the Lie-demon protecting, I guard o’er my (faithful), and so (I) grant progress (in weal and...
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