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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (4)
The darkness of unwisdom is the field of the others. These hindrances may be dormant, or worn thin, or suspended, or expanded.
Bhagavad Gita
Guṇa Traya Vibhāga Yoga (14.13)
Darkness, heedlessness, inertness, and error, — these arise when Tamas is predominant, O descendant of Kuru.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 4: Of the shortness of this work, and how it may not be come to by the curiosity of wit, nor by imagination (9)
For such a darkness and such a cloud mayest thou imagine with curiosity of wit, for to bear before thine eyes in the lightest day of summer: and also ...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.32)
That which, enveloped in darkness, sees adharma as dharma and all things perverted, that intellect, O Pârtha, is Tâmasic.
Gospel of Mary
Chapter 8 (19)
The first form is darkness, the second desire, the third ignorance, the fourth is the…
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Sixth Day (9.23)
O nobly-born, along with the radiances of Wisdom, the impure illusory lights of the Six Lokas will also come to shine. If it be asked, 'What are...
Mundaka Upanishad
First Mundaka, Second Khanda (8)
Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round staggering to and fro, like blind men...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (116)
The Light hating World, and the winding currents by which many are drawn down.
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (9)
House of this World; the outward Darkness is the House of God's Wrath, wherein the Devils dwell, and it is rightly the House of Death, for the holy Li...
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. (74)
If it stretches to God, then the Devil holds it on one Side with one Band, and the World with another Band; and they set upon it; the Devil handles...
Bhagavad Gita
Guṇa Traya Vibhāga Yoga (14.8)
But, know thou Tamas to be born of unwisdom, deluding all embodied beings; by heedlessness, indolence and sloth, it binds fast, O Bharata.
The Masnavi
The Thirsty Man who threw Bricks into the Water (10-18)
Since the senses' light is gross and dense, When you cannot see the senses' light with the eye, How can you see with the eye the Light of the mind?...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Seventh Day (10.11)
At the same time, a dull blue light from the brute world will come to shine along with the Radiances of Wisdom. Then, through the influence of the...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (132)
For when thy Light is extinguished, then thou standest in the Darkness, and in the Darkness the Wrath of God is hidden, and if thou awakenest it, then...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (13)
And instead of Light it has Darkness, and therein the Creature is sensible, by Experience, that there is a Darkness hid in the Center.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 21: Of the Cainish, and of the Abellish Kingdom; how they are both in one another. Also of their Beginning, Rise, Essence, and Purpose; and then of their last Exit. Also of the Cainish Antichristian Church, and then of the Abellish true Christian Church; how they are both in one another, and are very difficult to be known [asunder.] Also of the Variety of Arts, States, and Orders of this World. Also of the Office of Rulers [or Magistrates,] and their Subjects; how there is a good and divine Ordinance in them all, as also a false, evil, and devilish one. Where the Providence of God is seen in all Things; and the Devil 's Deceit, Subtilty, and Malice, [is seen also] in all Things. (49)
He sees and knows nothing else but his Wickedness, and yet is born in God; for his Spirit continually breaks the Gate of the Darkness, but then the An...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (5)
'Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.11)
Joyless are those worlds called/ Covered with blind darkness. To them after death go those People that have not knowledge, that are not awakened:
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 7 (3.7.13)
He who, dwelling in the darkness, yet is other than the darkness, whom the darkness does not know, whose body the darkness is, who controls the...
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Letters, Letter I: To Gaius Therapeutes (1)
DARKNESS becomes invisible by light, and specially by much light. Varied knowledge (αἰ γνώσεις), and especially much varied knowledge, makes the...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (57)
Darkness, wherein King Lucifer with his Angels, as also all fleshly or carnal wicked Men, lie captive, even with or in their living Bodies, as also th...
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