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Christian Mysticism
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self - Restraint. (17)
But when the only good Father visits it, it is sanctified, and gleams with light. And he who possesses such a heart is so blessed, that "he shall see God."
Christian Scripture
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XIV. The Sermon on the Mount: the Beatitudes, Admonitions, Precepts (7)
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (39)
But if a man here on earth is enlightened with the Holy Ghost from the fountain of JESUS CHRIST, so that the spirits of nature, which signify the Fath...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (31)
And this is the select place of the glory of God, which God the Father, in himself, has made choice of, wherein his holy WORD or Heart is generated in...
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Christian Mysticism
Sermon VI: Sanctification (19)
St Augustine says. "the strong attraction of the soul to the Divine reduces everything to nothingness: on earth this attraction is manifested as...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (29)
This therefore is the only ground and meaning, that the holy Father, who is ALL, would have in these angelical gates his most joyful and most richly...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (108)
But seeing the deep, that is, the whole space of this world, was the body of the Father, (understand the Father of the Heart of God), understand the F...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (34)
Observe, when the gracious, amiable, blessed, joyful glance and light, together with the sweet power out of the Son of God, shineth into all powers...
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Christian Mysticism
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Celestial Hierarchy, Caput I (1)
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Lights." Further also, every procession of illuminating...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (70)
Therefore the Father loveth this his only begotten or innate Son so heartily, because he is the light and the meek beneficent welldoing in his body, t...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XXVIII (28.2)
Moreover, where there is this union, which is the offspring of a Divine light and dwelleth in its beams, there is no spiritual pride or irreverent spi...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (13)
This [Image] is not the Heart of God, but it reaches into the Heart of God, and it receives Virtue, Light and Joy from the Heart and Light of God....
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Gnostic
Teachings of Silvanus (64)
Blessed are you, O soul, if you find this one in your temple. Blessed are you still more if you perform his service. But he who will defile the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (129)
But when he is overcome, then the heavenly gate openeth in my spirit, and then the spirit seeth the divine and heavenly being; not externally without ...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (7)
But in that Christ calls his Father a heavenly Father, his meaning is that his Father's lustre and power appear and shine very bright and pure in heav...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (3)
Then thou wilt see well enough in his light and power; even into the holy Trinity, and understand those things which are written hereafter following....
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Hindu
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 2 (1)
'Thus he who desires the world of the fathers, by his mere will the fathers come to receive him, and having obtained the world of the fathers, he is...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (23)
Where else then should the Father place them, than before the gate of his Heart? Does not all joy of man, which is in the whole man, arise from the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (25)
But the splendour and the power of the Son of God, or Heart of God, which is the light or source and fountain of joy, taketh up his fairest and most j...
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Sufi
The Love of God (16)
He, in whose heart the love of God has prevailed over all else, will derive more joy from this vision than he in whose heart it has not so prevailed; ...
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Gnostic
Know Yourselves (9)
"Blessings will be on those who are going up to the father.
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