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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVII: Philosophy Conveys Only An Imperfect Knowledge of God. (30)
But "the earth is God's, and the fulness thereof," says the Scripture, teaching that good things come from God to men; it being through divine power and might that the distribution of them comes to the help of man.
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (106)
But God's word, which he spake then in power, has encompassed heaven and earth, and the heaven of heavens; yea, and the whole Deity also.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (3)
But the kingdom belongs to God the Father, who has made it out of his powers, and he may set it and dispose it which way he pleaseth; otherwise their ...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (112)
For God had generated him out of his body, and therefore also made him the heir of his goods, and gave him for a possession the whole region or extent...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (16)
All the powers which are in nature proceed from God the Father; all light, heat, cold, air, water; and all the powers of the earth, bitter, sour,...
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Celestial Hierarchy, Caput I (1)
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Lights." Further also, every procession of illuminating...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (7)
All power is in God the Father, and he is the fountain of all powers in his deep; in him are light and darkness, air and water, heat and cold, hard...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (76)
Out of the powers of God are the heavens proceeded; out of the heaven are the stars; out of the stars are the elements; out of the elements are the...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (9)
As I said before, all the powers or virtues are in God the Father, and no man with his sense and thoughts can reach to apprehend it. But in the stars...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (126)
Yes, dear man, all this is true: The wrath of God is certainly everywhere all over, in silver, gold, stones, fields, garments, beasts and men, and...
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
On Divine Names, Caput VIII (3)
The distribution, then, of boundless power, from Almighty God, passes to all beings, and there is no single being which is utterly deprived of the...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
V. Christ's Long Fast in the Wilderness—satan's Futile Wiles (4)
It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 1: Of the first Principle of the Divine Essence. (1)
SEEING we are now to speak of God, what he is, and where he is, we must say, that God himself is the Essence of all Essences; for all is generated or...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (22)
Wherefore, my son, thou shouldst give praise to God and pray that thou mayst have thy mind Good Mind. It is, then, to a better state the soul doth...
Asclepius
Section XXXIV (4)
And if thou should’st observe it as a whole, thou wilt be taught, by means of the True Reason, that Cosmos in itself is knowable to sense, and that al...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (69)
The earth has just such qualities and qualifying or fountain spirits as the deep above the earth or as heaven has, and all of them together belong to...
Corpus Hermeticum
9. On Thought and Sense (9)
It is through superstition men thus impiously speak. For all the things that are, Asclepius, all are in God, are brought by God to be, and do depend o...
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...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (7)
Out of the earth sprang up grass, herbs and trees; and in the earth, silver, gold, and all manner of ores came to be; and in the deep above the earth...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LX (22)
For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a ...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (145)
That now is the divine power, which all the creatures are subjected to; for all whatsoever it is that liveth and moveth is in God, and God himself is...
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