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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IV: The Praises of Martyrdom. (3)
"Mother" figuratively means Country and sustenance; "fathers" are the laws of civil polity: which must be contemned thankfully by the high-souled just man; for the sake of being the friend of God, and of obtaining the right hand in the holy place, as the Apostles have done.
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (41-50)
Wherefore the claims of God predominate over the mother's, Whoso acknowledges not God's claims is a fool. He who made mother and breast and milk...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (100)
Here bring in your defence, and answer for your spirit; if not, it will be condemned. For this is God's jus, right or law, which law has no...
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. (68)
Whatsoever we have ordained at the Convention of the chief Fathers, with the whole Consent of our Concilium [or Council,] that is holy; for it is...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (27)
Pythagoras being asked, how a man ought to conduct himself towards his country, when it had acted iniquitously with respect to him, replied, as to a...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (80)
From hence also the RIGHTS [Laws] in this world exist, or have their original. For when a son resisteth his father, and striketh his father, then he...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (101)
Also the house of the mother, as long as the mother liveth, is not the child's proper own; but the mother keeps the child with her in love, she...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (39)
This Figure does not (as many judge) go into the Abyss, but as the Parents were, so is also their Figure; for this Figure is the Parent's, till the...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (8)
Thereby Christ also distinguisheth his heavenly Father from the father of nature, which is indeed the stars and the elements; these are our natural...
The Kybalion
Chapter V: The Mental Universe (13)
Is it any wonder that You, the child, feel that instinctive reverence for THE ALL, which feeling we call "religion"--that respect, and reverence for...
The Kybalion
Chapter V: The Mental Universe (16)
"Within the Father-Mother Mind, mortal children are at home." --The Kybalion. "There is not one who is Fatherless, nor Motherless in the Universe." --...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (3)
Father, mother, and child constitute the natural trinity. The Mysteries glorified the home as the supreme institution consisting of this trinity...
Corpus Hermeticum
2. To Asclepius (17)
The other name of God is Father, again because He is the that-which-maketh-all. The part of father is to make. Wherefore child-making is a very great...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (72)
And though the child be in the mother's house, and the mother nourish the child with her food, and the child could not live without the mother, yet bo...
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 132 (Mary removeth the doubt of Salome)
But the Law hath said this concerning the power which hath came forth out of the Saviour, and which is the light-man within us to-day. The Law hath mo...
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. (63)
Hitherto the Honour of Invocation [or Worship] has been paid and afforded to the Virgin Mary, and other Saints, [or holy People,] that have been here...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Freemasonic Symbolism (36)
The male is Christ: the female, the Church.' The Qabbalists called the Holy Spirit, the mother, and the Church of Israel, the Daughter. Solomon engrav...
Gospel of Thomas
Sayings (101)
And whoever does [not] love his father and his mother as I do cannot become a [disciple] to Me. For My mother , but [My] true [Mother] gave me life."...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (13)
But seeing men are gods, and have the knowledge of God the only Father, from whom they are proceeded or descended, and in whom they live, therefore I ...
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (37)
"Among the gods who are her sons, inasmuch as he hath given her [support
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (58)
Now those powers of the Father which stand in the kindling of the light are the holy Father, and the meek Father, and the pure birth or geniture of...
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