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Christian Mysticism
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (10)
Wherefore also man is said "to have been made in [God's] image and likeness."
Christian Mysticism
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (31)
For a similitude or example take man, who is made after the image or similitude of God, as it is written [Gen. i. 27].
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (15)
Thus was Man an Image and Similitude before God, wherein God dwells, in which (through his eternal Wisdom) he would manifest his Wonders.
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (9)
Now the Question is; What is God's Image? Behold, and consider the Deity, and then you will light upon it. For God is not a bestial Man; but Man...
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Gnostic
The Creation of Material Humanity (2)
The thought which is set between those of the right and those of the left is a power of begetting. All those which the first ones will wish to make,...
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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. (45)
Thy Body and Soul convinces thee of it, as also Heaven and Earth, the Stars and Elements; look upon what thou wilt, all Things convince thee; and if t...
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Hermetic
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (12)
In very truth, God fell in love with his own Form; and on him did bestow all of His own formations.
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (12)
Seeing then God is all in all, and has created Man to his Image and Similitude, to live with him eternally in his Love, Light, Joy and Glory,...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (4)
Therefore seeing that in the resurrection we shall be like the angels, the angels must needs be shaped and figured like us, or else we must assume to ...
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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. (12)
And so now God created the Image, and Similitude, out of the eternal Element, in which the eternal Wonders are originally, and [God] breathed into him...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (49)
For the human flesh is and resembleth nature in the body of God, which is generated from the other six qualifying or fountain spirits, wherein the qua...
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Sufi
The Knowledge of God (5)
Not only are man's attributes a reflection of God's attributes, but the mode of existence of man's soul affords some insight into God's mode of...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (2)
As man is created to be the image and similitude of God, so also are the angels, for they are the brethren of men, and men in the resurrection will...
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Gnostic
The Conversion of the Logos (7)
The powers were good and were greater than those of the likeness. For those belonging to the likeness also belong to a nature of falsehood. From an...
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Gnostic
The Conversion of the Logos (9)
Though he is not equal to those who pre-existed, if they were superior to the likenesses, it was he alone through whom they were more exalted than...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (11)
Or who can alter or change me? I myself will be lord, and with my sharpness rule in all things, and my body shall be the image which shall be worshipp...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (31)
Man is made out of the seed of the earth, out of an incorporated or compacted mass or lump— ["Understand, out of the matrix of the earth, wherein the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (115)
Also such an image was Adam, as God created him, before his Eve was made out of him; but the corrupted Salitter did wrestle with the wellspring of...
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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. (89)
Open your eyes, and consider yourselves: Man is made according to the similitude, and out of the power, of God in his Ternary. Behold thy inward man,...
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Hermetic
Section VIII (2)
Accordingly, in that He was so mighty and so fair, He willed that some one else should have the power to contemplate the One He had made from...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (82)
But seeing man's body is its proper own, and is a son of the whole body of God, therefore it generateth also a proper seed of its own, according to th...
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