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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXII: The True Gnostic Does Good, Not From Fear of Punishment or Hope of Reward, But Only for the Sake of Good Itself. (4)
And if some hate the elect, such an one knows their ignorance, and pities their minds for its folly.
Book of Enoch
Chapter V (8)
And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, And they shall all live and never again sin, Either through ungodliness or through pride: But ...
Dhammapada
Chapter III: Thought (42)
Whatever a hater may do to a hater, or an enemy to an enemy, a wrongly-directed mind will do us greater mischief.
The Path of Light
Chapter 6: The Perfect Long-Suffering (10)
It is unmeet for me to hate them that destroy or revile images, sanctuaries, or the Good Law; for the Enlightened and their company thereby take no...
Dhammapada
Chapter V: The Fool (66)
Fools of little understanding have themselves for their greatest enemies, for they do evil deeds which must bear bitter fruits.
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (55)
But those that persevere in the wrath, and wholly kindle it in themselves, they are all alike, one and other, be they Christians, Jews, Turks, or Heat...
Dhammapada
Chapter XV: Happiness (206)
The sight of the elect (Arya) is good, to live with them is always happiness; if a man does not see fools, he will be truly happy.
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. (103)
I will show thee Paul's [Meaning about] his Election of Grace in its due Place, when I shall write of the bestial, wolfish, and doggish Minds of Men, ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (59)
As if it was not possible, that the Love in the Breaking of the Anger does i fully appear, [or shine forth;] and it is for Want of Repentance, that Ma...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (151)
Now come on, you Electionists, and contenders about the Election of Grace, you that suppose you alone are in the right, and esteem a simple faith to...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (66)
Then why does not the Soul of Man go also [therewith] out of the Anger into the Love, and so it should be generated [to be] another Creature in the...
The Conference of the Birds
Question of the Sixteenth Bird (5)
A Sufi, an idiot of God, was tormented by children who threw stones at him. At last he took refuge in a corner of a building. But at that moment it...
Asclepius
Section XXIII (1)
Still, of the rest, the vicious folk, we ought to say no word, for fear a very sacred sermon should be spoiled by thinking of them.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (51)
Very much; for they know the way of life, and know how they should rise from the fall: But if any will lie still, then he must be thrown into the...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 56: How they be deceived that lean more to the curiosity of natural wit, and of clergy learned in the school of men than to the common doctrine and counsel of Holy Church (1)
SOME there be, that although they be not deceived with this error as it is set here, yet for pride and curiosity of natural wit and letterly cunning...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 53: Of divers unseemly practices that follow them that lack the work of this book (2)
Many unordained and unseemly practices follow on this error, whoso might perceive all. Nevertheless some there be that be so curious that they can...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.32)
But those who carp at my teaching and do not practise it, know them as men deluded in all knowledge, devoid of discrimination and doomed to destructio...
Dhammapada
Chapter II: On Earnestness (22)
Those who are advanced in earnestness, having understood this clearly, delight in earnestness, and rejoice in the knowledge of the Ariyas (the elect).
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (61)
And his Anger is not known in the Heaven; and so there also, his Election goes always over the Children of Love, which belong to the Kingdom of Heaven...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XVII (5)
While in the first it well directed is, And in the second moderates itself, It cannot be the cause of sinful pleasure; But when to ill it turns, and,...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LVIII (2)
Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect, For glorious shall be your lot.
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