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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (9)
And there is a ten in man himself: the five senses, and the power of speech, and that of reproduction; and the eighth is the spiritual principle communicated at his creation; and the ninth the ruling faculty of the soul; and tenth, there is the distinctive characteristic of the Holy Spirit, which comes to him through faith.
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(9)
These are the ten emanations of number. One is the Spirit of the Living God, blessed and more than blessed be the name of the Living God of Ages. The...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (36)
Thereupon are born the divine power of intuition, and the hearing, the touch, the vision, the taste and the power of smell of the spiritual man.
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (56)
The Head contains the five Senses, viz. Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feeling, wherein the Stars and Elements qualify, and therein exists...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(3)
The ten numbers formed from nothing are the Decad: these are seen in the fingers of the hands, five on one, five on the other, and over them is the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (19)
Ten are the numbers (of the Sephiroth) out of Nothing, ten--not nine; ten--not eleven. Comprehend this great, wisdom, understand this knowledge and be...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (18)
The ten numbers (Sephiroth) out of Nothing are analogous to the ten fingers and the ten toes: five over against five. In the center between them is th...
Asclepius
Section VII (2)
For man is the sole animal that is twofold. One part of him is simple: the [man] “essential,” as say the Greeks, but which we call the “form of the Di...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (93)
Now in the dark Body of Man there is such a Regimen or Dominion also as to the seven Spirits, as is in the Body of the Deep. And when the seven...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Pythagorean Mathematics (130)
The 3 (spirit, mind, and soul) descend into the 4 (the world), the sum being the 7, or the mystic nature of man, consisting of a threefold spiritual...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (102)
The three that cause love are the heart and the two ears; the three that produce hatred are the liver, the gall, and the tongues; the three life-giver...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogony (98)
The third order of gates is termed Decad of Humanity and its divisions are as follows: (21) Appearance of Man; (22) Material human body; (23) Human...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Cryptogram as a factor in Symbolic Philosophy (82)
In the third or inner circle is man, a tenfold creature, consisting of nine parts--three of spirit, three of intellect, and three of soul--enclosed...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (34)
Every Spirit has its own Quality or Source, though indeed it is generated of the other; and so it is with the Apprehension of Man; he has indeed the...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (16)
Here observe exactly the Sense and Mystery. [e Mind or Meaning.]
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 63: Of the powers of a soul in general, and how Memory in special is a principal power comprehending in it all the other powers and all those things in the which they work (3)
Memory is called a principal power, for it containeth in it ghostly not only all the other powers, but thereto all those things in the which they work...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(4)
Ten are the numbers of the ineffable Sephiroth, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. Learn this wisdom, and be wise in the understanding of it,...
Asclepius
Section XI (3)
And to these parts [are added other] four;—of sense, and soul, of memory, and foresight, by means of which he may become acquainted with the rest of t...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (67)
But all the seven are one in another as one Spirit; as this may be conceived in Man, who has several Thoughts, because of the Operation of the seven S...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogony (93)
By placing man himself at the point D 10, his true constitution is revealed. He exists upon four worlds, only one of which is visible. It is then...
Corpus Hermeticum
13. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain (10)
Thou knowest [now], my son, the manner of Rebirth. And when the Ten is come, my son, that driveth out the Twelve, the Birth in understanding is...
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