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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (27)
Nay, he will pray that he may never fall from virtue; giving his most strenuous co-operation in order that he may become infallible. For he knows that some of the angels, through carelessness, were hurled to the earth, not having yet quite reached that state of oneness, by extricating themselves from the propensity to that of duality.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XI (17)
And he began to pray to the Creator of all things that He might save him from the errors of the children of men, and that his portion should not fall ...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXIX (3)
The rest remained, and they began this art Which thou discernest, with so great delight That never from their circling do they cease. The occasion of ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (3)
Now of these princely Angels One is fallen (for he stood in the fourth Form of the Matrix of the Genetrix in the dark Mind, in that Place in the Mind...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (26)
The highest, strongest, and the mightiest Gate of the Temptation in Adam.
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (96)
Here thou must know, that without, distinct from himself, he had no impulse at all to his pride, but his beauty and brightness deceived him. When he...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (19)
But man may sink to the animal or soar to the angel, and this is the meaning of his undertaking that "burden" of which the Koran speaks. The majority ...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (18)
Thus man is capable of existing on several different planes, from the animal to the angelic, and precisely in this lies his danger (i.e., of falling...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto VII (4)
The more conformed thereto, the more it pleases; For the blest ardour that irradiates all things In that most like itself is most vivacious. With all...
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. (95)
And here the Devil's Master-piece is seen, in that he uses the Scripture, and says, The Angels will bear thee up; whereas here the Matter was not abou...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (19)
And thus he is in this Life threefold, and the threefold Spirit hangs on him, and he is generated therein, neither can he be rid of it, except he [cor...
The Path of Light
Chapter 5: Watchfulness (6)
The Perfections, Charity, and the rest, are of an ascending order of excellence; he will not forsake a more excellent for another, save in respect of...
The Path of Light
Chapter 7: The Perfect Strength (11)
As poison that has reached the blood spreads through the body, so the sin that finds a weak spot spreads through the spirit. A man carrying a bowl...
The Masnavi
Bahlol and the Darvesh (19-27)
His avoidance of infidelity is also for God's sake, Thus this temper of his arises from his very nature, At times he laughs when he contemplates...
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. (94)
Therefore here the Soul of Christ must be accurately tempted, [to try] whether it would (seeing it had retained the heavenly Bread) fly out also in Pr...
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. (86)
And so should the angelical Man also set his Will in the broken Gates of the Darkness, through the Will of the Father, wherewith the Soul qualifies [o...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto III (4)
If to be more exalted we aspired, Discordant would our aspirations be Unto the will of Him who here secludes us; Which thou shalt see finds no place...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXXIII (2)
Supplicate thee through grace for so much power That with his eyes he may uplift himself Higher towards the uttermost salvation. And I, who never...
The Path of Light
Chapter 7: The Perfect Strength (10)
He will guard himself against the blows of the Passions, and deal stout blows against the Passions, as though fighting with the sword against a skilfu...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXX (7)
So low he fell, that all appliances For his salvation were already short, Save showing him the people of perdition. For this I visited the gates of de...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (1)
NOW the highest Question is, What that is which caused the Mind of the Devil so to elevate itself, and that so great a Number of them are fallen in...
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