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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 Defense, and answer for your Spirit; if not, it will be condemned. For this is God’s Jus, Right or Law, which has no Beginning,...
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...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (72)
And though the Child is in the Mother's House, and the Mother nourishes the Child with her Food, and the Child could not live without the Mother, yet ...
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...
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...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (8)
Christ also thereby distinguishes 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 (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." --...
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 Love of the Mother, as long as the Mother lives, is not the Child’s proper own; but the Mother keepes the Child with her in Love, she...
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...
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...
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 in this World exist, or have their Original. For when a Son resists his Father, and strikes his Father, then he loses his...
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."...
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (37)
"Among the gods who are her sons, inasmuch as he hath given her [support
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (102)
But when the Child rebels and resists against the Mother, and takes away all from the Mother, and domineers over her, and moreover strikes at her, and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (37)
His Mother signifies his eternal new Humanity, which he had P received in his Mother (viz. in the Holy Ternary) which we should take to us, and refres...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXXII (6)
He who upon the left is near her placed The father is, by whose audacious taste The human species so much bitter tastes. Upon the right thou seest...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (13)
For I find, that for the most part they stand upon a right Ground, and I will diligently endeavour to go according to their Rules and Formulas.
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