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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (102)
Thou know st Him not. Now He appears as fire, Dread force; as water now; and now as gloom; And in the beasts is dimly shadowed forth, In wind, and cloud, in lightning, thunder, rain; And minister to Him the seas and rocks, Each fountain and the water's floods and streams.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (11)
When thou beholdest the deep, the stars, the elements, and the earth, then thou comprehendest not with thy eyes the bright and clear Deity, though...
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (28-35)
Hence, through ignorance, sloth, and folly, Though he stands hard by us, we are shut off from him. The noise of thunder makes the head of the thirsty...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (76)
And if thou art not wilfully blind, thou may know that the air is that very spirit; but in the place of this world nature is kindled therein very swel...
The Masnavi
Moses and Pharaoh. 1 (61-70)
Here at His command wisdom was shed down like rain, Clouds and sun, and moon and lofty stars, All come and go in obedience to His ordinance; No one...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (1)
WHEN man beholdeth the deep above the earth he seeth nothing but stars, and clouds of water, and then he thinketh, Sure there must be another place,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 5: Of the Third Principle, or Creation of the material World, with the Stars and Elements; wherein the First and Second Principles are more clearly understood. (20)
So also you may see that there goes forth from it a mighty forcible Air, and that they are in one another; and besides, you see that Water is generate...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (72)
But yet the dead water and earth comprehend no more than the flash or terror or crack of the fire, through which their mobility existeth: But the ligh...
The Masnavi
Mahmud and Ayaz (continued) (23-33)
O pardon us, our sins are a heavy burden! Thou art hidden from us, though the heavens are filled With Thy light, which is brighter than sun and moon!...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (198)
A similar Fire flashingly extending through the rushings of Air, or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a flashing Light...
Chaldean Oracles
Oracles from Porphyry (P.1)
There is above the Celestial Lights an Incorruptible Flame always sparkling; the Spring of Life, the Formation of all Beings, the Original of all...
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 shew thou me any place, to which thou sendeth thy covetous or lustful spirit, where God is not; be it to man, beasts, garments, fields, money or...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (34)
But that also the element of fire is, and does rule in the deep of the air and water, thou seest in tempests of lightning; also thou perceivest how th...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (37)
The Reader is advertised that he must not understand in any place, as if the devil had kindled or fired the light of God; no, but the forms of nature ...
Concept of Our Great Power
Concept of Our Great Power (3)
Discern what size the water is, that it is immeasurable (and) incomprehensible, both its beginning and its end. It supports the earth; it blows in...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (196)
If thou often invokest thou shalt see all things growing dark; and then when no longer is visible unto thee the High-arched Vault of Heaven, when the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka IV, Khanda 12 (1)
Then the Anvâhârya fire taught him: Water, the quarters, the stars, the moon (these are my forms). The person that is seen in the moon, I am he, I am...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (3)
Many will dare to say, What manner of God would that be, whose body, being, and power or virtue, stands or consisteth in fire, air, water and earth?
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (4)
E'en with these words His aspect changed, and straightway, in the twinkling of an eye, all things were opened to me, and I see a Vision limitless,...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (199)
When thou shalt behold that holy and formless Fire shining flashingly through the depths of the Universe: Hear thou the Voice of Fire.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (41)
Behold, thou seeking Mind, that which thou seest before thy Eyes, that it not the Element, neither in the Fire, Air, nor Earth; neither are there...
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