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Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 37: Of the special prayers of them that be continual workers in the work of this book (3)
And right as this little word “fire” stirreth rather and pierceth more hastily the ears of the hearers, so doth a little word of one syllable when it is not only spoken or thought, but privily meant in the deepness of spirit; the which is the height, for in ghostliness all is one, height and deepness, length and breadth. And rather it pierceth the ears of Almighty God than doth any long psalter unmindfully mumbled in the teeth. And herefore it is written, that short prayer pierceth heaven.
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (8)
Now that WORD which the Father pronounceth or speaketh forth has such a sharpness, that the tone of the WORD goeth swiftly in a moment through the...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (80)
But that the spirit layeth hold on the power and virtue of the word, and goeth another way through the nostrils into the brain before the throne of th...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (102)
For when the heat is so anxious in the cold in the astringent quality, that the light kindleth itself through the hidden heaven of the heart in the co...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (98)
For it must be a middle or mild fire; to keep the spirit in the heart from rising it must be gently simmering, then it getteth a very sweet and meek r...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (12)
Prayer is, then, to speak more boldly, converse with God. Though whispering, consequently, and not opening the lips, we speak in silence, yet we cry...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (99)
There the tongue is terrified, trembleth and croucheth to the nether gums, and then the spirit cometh forth from the heart, and closeth the word,...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (80)
But when the mouth opened to speak, that is, when the seven spirits had incorporated or compacted the word together in their will, and sent it through...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 2: Of the first and second Principle, what God and the Divine Nature is; wherein is set down a further Description of the Sulphur and Mercurius. (10)
Here observe, the Shriek or Crack of the Fire is kindled in the Anguish in the Brimstone Spirit, and then the Shriek flies up triumphantly; and the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (21)
Whence God does not walt for loquacious tongues, as interpreters among men, but knows absolutely the thoughts of all; and what the voice intimates to ...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (78)
This I speak to thee as a word of the earnest severity of God, which is generated or born in the flash of life.
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (108)
But when the word breaketh through, then the mouth within openeth wide, and the word conceiveth itself once more with its sound behind the astringent ...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (74)
But here thou must know that this quality penetrateth very gently and pleasantly with its touching or stirring, through all the spirits, in such a way...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (79)
The word or syllable (den) conceiveth itself on the tongue again, and the spirit attracteth the power and virtue out of the word, and therewith goeth...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (15)
Then the word stands in the heart as a self-subsisting person, compacted from all the powers [combined]; it is a word and representeth or denoteth...
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. (47)
Therefore the Tongue ought not in all [or altogether] to be believed, for it sits not in the heavenly Region, as the friendly pleasant Virtue [does;] ...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 6 (4)
'That which is the subtile portion of fire, when consumed, rises upwards, and becomes speech.
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (65)
But that the mouth is swiftly opened again after the word is ended, it signifieth, concerning the deep above the earth, that God the Lord will neverth...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (53)
These words must be considered exactly, what they are. For the word (Am) conceiveth itself in the heart, and goeth forth to the lips, but there is...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (91)
"Yet the fire giveth or holdeth forth to us a mystery of the eternal nature, and of the Deity also, wherein a man is to understand two Principles of...