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The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXXVII. Pharisees Querulous—tradition of the Elders: Unwashen Hands—washing of Pots Not the Whole of Godliness—blind Leaders of the Blind (12)
Are ye also yet so without understanding? Do not ye yet perceive that whatsoever thing from without entereth into a man, entereth in at the mouth, goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught, purging all meats? It entereth not into his heart; it cannot defile him.
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (16)
For in thy flesh and blood thou art not able to apprehend it, and though thou dost read it, yet it is but as a fume or mist before thine eyes.
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. (30)
And there is a great Matter for us to see in the several Meats which God forbid them, especially Swine's Flesh, whose Source [Quality or Property] wil...
Corpus Hermeticum
7. The Greatest Ill Among Men Is Ignorance of God (1)
Whither stumble ye, sots, who have sopped up the wine of ignorance and can so far not carry it that ye already even spew it forth? Stay ye, be sober,...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (8)
This is the sentence of the vicious soul. And the soul's vice is ignorance. For that the soul who hath no knowledge of the things that are, or knowled...
Dhammapada
Chapter XX: The Way (277)
'All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 27: Of the Last Judgment, of the Resurrection of the Dead, and of the Eternal Life. The most horrible Gate of the Wicked, and the joyful Gate of the Godly. (25)
And now though other Seed be found among the Wheat (when it is fanned and sifted) that he cannot get out, shall he therefore not use his Wheat for Foo...
The Masnavi
The Lover and his Mistress (58-66)
He is not ignorant nor absent, O mean one. The carnal soul is made by God blind and deaf; I saw with the heart's eye your blindness afar off. For...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: The Gospel Was Preached to Jews and Gentiles in Hades. (16)
If, then, in the deluge all sinful flesh perished, punishment having been inflicted on them for correction, we must first believe that the will of...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered. (45)
Now if thou hast had an envious [spiteful] dogged Mind, and hast grudged every Thing to others, as a Dog does with a Bone which himself cannot eat,...
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. (16)
Now the Knowledge of Good and Evil is not manifest in the Paradise, and in the Kingdom of Heaven, but only in what is proceeded out of the Element, in...
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. (76)
Behold, all whatsoever thou lettest into thy Mind (if thy Soul be not inclined [or yielded up] to God, so that it believes and trusts in him) then...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (38)
For to a Beast, (which is created out of Matter,) no Sin may be imputed, for its Spirit reaches not the first Principle; but it has its Original in th...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (27)
And now when the Hands (in the Will) reach after the Children of the Earth (which [Reaching forth] yet is no other than a Will in the Spirit of the Ch...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 42: That by indiscretion in this, men shall keep discretion in all other things; and surely else never (2)
For surely I trow I should rather come to discretion in them by such a heedlessness, than by any busy beholding to the same things, as I would by that...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 19: Of the Entering of the Souls to God, and of the wicked Souls Entering into Perdition. Of the Gate of the Body's Breaking off [or Parting] from the Soul. (23)
Has it wrought Good here? then it shall eat that Good; for all Sins stand before it in its Tincture: If it thinks inwardly in itself of the Kingdom...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (127)
Take heed, that it does not kindle thy body and soul, and so thou wilt burn therein eternally, as befell Lucifer.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 34: That God giveth this grace freely without any means, and that it may not be come to with means (2)
And yet, there is no soul without this grace, able to have this grace: none, whether it be a sinner’s soul or an innocent soul. For neither it is give...
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. (32)
Look here into the Ground of the Essences, and say not with Reason; It was merely for Disobedience, which God was so very angry at, that his Anger cou...
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. (61)
And in the sour [or harsh] Essence of the Tincture of the Worm of the Soul, he infects the sour harsh Essence, whereby it becomes sharply attractive, ...
Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (17)
Now all such things the adversary prepares beautifully and spreads out before the body, wishing to make the mind of the soul incline her toward one...
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