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Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 71: That some may not come to feel the perfection of this work but in time of ravishing, and some may have it when they will, in the common state of man’s soul (3)
Moses ere he might come to see this Ark and for to wit how it should be made, with great long travail he clomb up to the top of the mountain, and dwelled there, and wrought in a cloud six days: abiding unto the seventh day that our Lord would vouchsafe for to shew unto him the manner of this Ark‑making. By Moses’s long travail and his late shewing, be understood those that may not come to the perfection of this ghostly work without long travail coming before: and yet but full seldom, and when God will vouchsafe to shew it.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter I (2)
And Moses went up into the mount of God, and the glory of the Lord abode on Mount Sinai, and a cloud over- shadowed it six days.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 12: Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances may be highly considered. The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.] (5)
What was done there? Answer, Moses was called by God (out from [among] the Children of Israel) up into Mount Sinai, and stayed there forty Days: And...
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. (21)
Moses speaks only of the Tables of God, which were graven through with the Ten Commandments, so that they could see through them into the Paradise....
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 26: Of the Feast of Pentecost. Of the Sending of the Holy Spirit to his Apostles, and the Believers. The Holy Gate of the Divine Power. (2)
Behold, when God the Father had brought Israel into the Wilderness to Mount Sinai, and would give them Laws, in which they should live, then he...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (27)
Here I will faithfully admonish the Reader, deeply to consider Moses, for shere, under the Vail of Moses, he may look upon the Face of Moses: Also he...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter I (4)
And Moses was on the Mount forty days and forty nights, and God taught him the earlier and the later history * of the division of all the days of the ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (2)
Indeed Moses writes; That God made Man of the Dust of the Earth. And that is the Opinion of very many: And I should also not have known how that was...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (32)
And there is a very great Matter to be seen in Moses, concerning his brightened Face; where he was tried whether it was possible that the Soul could b...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter II (1)
And the angel of the presence spake to Moses according to the word of the Lord, saying : Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days t...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (123)
But this I must needs say, that Moses has written very rightly, though the true understanding or meaning, out of what the earth proceeded, remained hi...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (127)
The holy man Moses was so high and deep in this light, that the light transfigured the astral birth also, whereby the outermost birth of the flesh in...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (2)
This description sheweth once more that the dear man Moses was not the original author thereof; for it is written very obscurely and baldly, though...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (15)
For there is found a very high Thing in the Virtue and Power of the Stars; [which is,] that every Life, Growth, Colour, and Virtue, Thickness, and Thi...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: Abstraction From Material Things Necessary in Order to Attain To the True Knowledge of God. (14)
Again: "Abraham, when he came to the place which God told him of on the third day, looking up, saw the place afar off." For the first day is that...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (122)
The dear man Moses writeth, That God made man out of a clod of earth, as the learned have rendered it. But Moses was not present when it was done.
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (27)
This description sheweth sufficiently that the dear man Moses was not the original author thereof; for the first writer did not know either the true...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter I (3)
And He called to Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud, and the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a flaming fire on the to...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (43)
Thus Moses has a Vail before his Eyes; and if thou wouldst see his Face, then thou must only set Christ thy Champion before thee, that he may lift up...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (128)
Moses writeth very rightly, that man was created out of the earth; but at that time, when the mass was held by the Word, then the mass was not earth....
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (34)
It is soft, also above measure hard and stony. It is far off, and near at hand, but by the providence of God, invisible. In it are hidden most ample t...
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