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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...
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 containeth the five senses, viz. seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling, wherein the stars and elements qualify, and therein...
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.
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...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (65)
For in these five qualities rise up the seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling; and so a rational spirit cometh to be.
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 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 others; and so it is with the apprehension of man; he has indeed the...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (93)
Now in the dark body of man there is also such a regimen or dominion, as to the seven spirits, as there is in the body of the deep. And when the...
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...
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...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (13)
And in the head is the divine councilseat or throne, and [the throne] signifieth God the Father, and the five senses or qualities are the counsellors,...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (46)
And that is a spirit, as all the rest of the seven spirits are, only the other six are an incomprehensible being therein; for the divine power generat...
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,...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (85)
The seventh qualifying or fountain spirit of God is the qualifying or fountain spirit of nature: for the other six do generate the seventh; and the...
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...
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