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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: The Gospel Was Preached to Jews and Gentiles in Hades. (11)
"For, behold," it is said, "I have set before your face death and life, that ye may choose life." "God says that He set, not that He made both, in order to the comparison of choice. And in another Scripture He says, "If ye hear Me, and be willing, ye shall eat the good of the land. But if ye hear Me not, and are not willing, the sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these things."
The Masnavi
The Man who asked Moses to teach him the language of animals (1-10)
God said, "Do thou grant his earnest request, Freewill is as the salt to piety, In its revolutions reward and punishment were needless, For 'tis...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (11)
For God saith in the Prophet [Ezek. xxxiii. 11], As true as I live, I have no delight or pleasure in the death of a sinner, but that he turn and live;...
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. (22)
And when God had placed Man in the Garden, he commanded him, and said; You shall eat of every Tree in the Garden, but of the Tree of Knowledge of Good...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIV (4)
But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life, And walk in the paths of peace, And ye shall live and prosper.
The Masnavi
Omar and the Ambassador (21-30)
That He may bind him on the horns of a dilemma; For he says, 'Shall I do this or its reverse?' Also from God comes the preference of one alternative;...
The Masnavi
The Darvesh who Broke his Vow (1-11)
Because the governance of actions is in my hands, Every moment I impart a fresh bias to the heart, Every instant I set a fresh mark on the heart; Each...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (1)
Death said: 'The good is one thing, the pleasant another; these two, having different objects, chain a man. It is well with him who clings to the...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (82)
Now if you will be gods, and not devils, then make use of the holy and meek law of God; if not, then you shall for ever eternally generate in the...
The Republic
Book X (618)
For we have seen and know that this is the best choice both in life and after death. A man must take with him into the world below an adamantine faith...
Gospel of Philip
God Plants Paradise (God Plants Paradise)
There are some [who dwell] with…God…. This garden [is where] it will be said to me, “…[eat] this and do not eat that, [as you] wish.” This is where I ...
The Masnavi
Bahlol and the Darvesh (1-9)
He said, "This at least is notorious to all men, Not a leaf falls from a tree Without the decree and command of that Lord of lords; Not a morsel goes...
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. (71)
For the Spirit of thy own Mouth will destroy thyself, so that thou shalt be no more called Babel, but Fierceness, Wrath and Sword within thyself, whic...
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. (92)
The Deity in Christ in the holy Ternary said, Eat of the Word of the Lord, and go forth from the outward Man, rest in the Kingdom of Heaven, and live...
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (23)
Death said: 'Choose sons and grandsons who shall live a hundred years, herds of cattle, elephants, gold, and horses. Choose the wide abode of the...
The Masnavi
The Man who asked Moses to teach him the language of animals (11-19)
Whilst infidels feed on filth and garbage, And generate poison according to their food." Men inspired of God are the fountain of life; In the world...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (6)
Moses says: God suffered to spring up out of the Earth all Sorts of Trees pleasant to look upon, and good for Food. But here is the Vail in Moses,...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (78)
If thy heart be not bolted and barred up in death, through thy stubborn wilfulness and blasphemy, and drowned in horrible sins, purposing not to...
Gospel of Thomas
Sayings (59)
Jesus said, "Take heed of the Living One while you are alive, lest you die and seek to see Him and be unable to do so."
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXI (22)
Beware, lest thou shouldest walk in their ways And tread in their paths, And sin a sin unto death before the Most High God. Else He will [hide His...
Corpus Hermeticum
4. The Cup or Monad (7)
Now the choosing of the Better not only proves a lot most fair for him who makes the choice, seeing it makes the man a God, but also shows his piety...
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