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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVII: Philosophy Conveys Only An Imperfect Knowledge of God. (14)
Why, then, is the serpent called wise? Because even in its wiles there may be found a connection, and distinction, and combination, and conjecturing of the future. And so very many crimes are concealed; because the wicked arrange for themselves so as by all means to escape punishment.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (45)
The serpent is true to the principle of wisdom, for it tempts man to the knowledge of himself. Therefore the knowledge of self resulted from man's...
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. (100)
This now the Devil did not understand; because God spoke of the Serpent, and cursed it to [be] a horrible Worm, and he supposed that it did not...
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. (99)
We know, that the Devil slipt into the Serpent, and spoke out of the Serpent; for God did not mean [by it] that the Treader upon the Serpent should...
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. (98)
Moses writes here as if the Serpent had beguiled Eve, because God cursed it, [and said;] That it should eat Earth, and creep upon its Belly; but...
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. (92)
Here it may be seen very plainly, that the Devil had lost his angelical Image; and comes now in the Form of a Serpent, with his murderous Lying, and...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (81)
Hence taketh its original that the devil is called [Rev. xii. 9] the old serpent; and also, that there are adders and serpents in this corrupted...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (25)
My son, do not swim in any water, and do not allow yourself to be defiled by strange kinds of knowledge. Certainly you know that the schemes of the...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (90)
Dost not thou seek after deeper subtlety than we? Thou wilt [wishest to] climb into the most hidden secrets of God, which is not fit for any man to...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (16)
So likewise the Serpent and the Devil have brought it about, that so terrible a Rent is made in him.
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. (102)
Now, says Reason, how could Adam and Eve know what God meant by the Treader upon the Serpent? Indeed, they did not wholly and altogether know; only...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (78)
In that manner he also deceived our mother Eve, saying, [Gen. iii 5] If she did but eat of the forbidden tree, then she should be wise or witty, and...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (9)
Such is the doom of those who, in the words of the Koran, "set their hearts on this world rather than on the next." If those snakes were merely extern...
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. (32)
And there the Devil bestirred himself, and slipt into the Serpent, (which he himself is, in his own proper Form,) and laid himself at the Tree, and st...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (35)
The learned have had many disputations, questions, conceits and opinions concerning the fierce malignity and evil that is in all the creatures in...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (26)
For he casts into your heart evil thoughts as good ones, and hypocrisy in the guise of true wisdom, avidity in the guise of conservative frugality, lo...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (46)
The accepted theory that the serpent is evil cannot be substantiated. It has long been viewed as the emblem of immortality. It is the symbol of...
Tripartite Tractate
The Creation of Material Humanity (8)
The noble elect substance which is in him was more exalted. It created and it did not wound them. Therefore they issued a command, making a threat...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (44)
The serpent mounds of the American Indian; the carved-stone snakes of Central and South America; the hooded cobras of India; Python, the great snake o...
The Masnavi
Moses and Pharaoh (12-22)
Slay it in sacred war and combat, When that man cherished that snake, That stubborn brute was happy in the luxury of warmth; And of necessity worked...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (38)
Now when the Worm of Darkness saw the Command of God, it thought with itself, here thou wilt not prevail, thou art Spirit without Body, and...
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