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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (67)
Nay, covet not a needle's thread. For God Thee sees, being near beside thee."
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 68: That nowhere bodily, is everywhere ghostly; and how our outer man calleth the work of this book nought (1)
But thus will I bid thee. Look on nowise that thou be within thyself. And shortly, without thyself will I not that thou be, nor yet above, nor behind,...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 34: That God giveth this grace freely without any means, and that it may not be come to with means (4)
Let it be the worker, and you but the sufferer: do but look upon it, and let it alone. Meddle thee not therewith as thou wouldest help it, for dread l...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (42)
Hearken, thou blind Man; thou livest in God, and God is in thee; and if thou livest holily, then therein thou thyself art God. For wheresoever thou lo...
The Masnavi
The Faqir and the Hidden Treasure (81-90)
God is "what is nearer to you than your neck-vein," O you, who have made ready your bow and arrows, The game is close to you, and you shoot too far...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (12)
That which God gives you, no one can take away. Neither do nor even think of that which you are not willing God should know.
Book of Enoch
Chapter IX (5)
Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and...
The Masnavi
The Lion and the Beasts (61-70)
If ye cavil at and accept not God's hints, Though ye count yourselves men, see, ye are women. The quantum of reason ye possessed is lost, Inasmuch as...
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. (78)
He stands in the Gate of the Mind, where the Soul stands (before the clear Face of God) in the opened Gate; and all thy Abominations are known before ...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 40: That in the time of this work a soul hath no special beholding to any vice in itself nor to any virtue in itself (3)
On the same manner shalt thou do with this little word “God.” Fill thy spirit with the ghostly bemeaning of it without any special beholding to any...
The Masnavi
The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass (102-111)
When you have seen the millstone turning round, Then, prithee, go and see the stream that turns it. When you have seen the dust rising up into the...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 2: A short stirring to meekness, and to the work of this book (2)
Do on then, I pray thee, fast. Look now forwards and let be backwards; and see what thee faileth, and not what thou hast, for that is the readiest...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (102)
Thou needest not first to cast thine Eyes up into Heaven, for it is written: “The Word is near thee, viz. on thy Lips, and in thy Heart.” [Deut. 30....
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 42: That by indiscretion in this, men shall keep discretion in all other things; and surely else never (2)
For surely I trow I should rather come to discretion in them by such a heedlessness, than by any busy beholding to the same things, as I would by that...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 23: How God will answer and purvey for them in spirit, that for business about His love list not answer nor purvey for themselves (3)
For to them that be perfectly meeked, no thing shall defail; neither bodily thing, nor ghostly. For why? They have God, in whom is all plenty; and who...
The Masnavi
The Jewish King, his Vazir, and the Christians (81-90)
That in lieu of one thou may'st see a thousand joys, For by quenching the light the soul is rejoiced, Whoso to display his devotion renounces the...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (125)
Now show thou me any Place, to which thou sendest thy covetous or lustful Spirit, be it to Man, Beasts, Garments, Fields, Money, or any Thing...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 32: Of two ghostly devices that be helpful to a ghostly beginner in the work of this book (1)
Prove thou and do better, if thou better mayest. Do that in thee is, to let be as thou wist not that they press so fast upon thee betwixt thee and thy...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 75: Of some certain tokens by the which a man may prove whether he be called of God to work in this work (6)
And Saint Gregory to witness, that all holy desires grow by delays: and if they wane by delays, then were they never holy desires. For he that feeleth...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 47: A slight teaching of this work in purity of spirit; declaring how that on one manner a soul should shew his desire unto God, and on ye contrary, unto man (4)
And yet I bid thee not plainly hide it; for that were the bidding of a fool, for to bid thee plainly do that which on nowise may be done. But I bid th...
The Masnavi
'Ali's Forbearance (61-70)
O God, Thy grace is the proper object of our desire; Nothing is bitterer than severance from Thee, Our worldly goods rob us of our heavenly goods,...
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