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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (24)
The cause of this association is the darkness of unwisdom.
Bhagavad Gita
Guṇa Traya Vibhāga Yoga (14.13)
Darkness, indolence, inadvertence, delusion— all these arise, Ο descendant of Kuru, when tamas prevails.
Paraphrase of Shem
Derdekeas Tells Shem About the Powers of the Universe (2)
The crookedness of the darkness was lack of perception, namely, the illusion that there is no one above him. And as long as he was able to restrain hi...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (116)
The Light hating World, and the winding currents by which many are drawn down.
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 ...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (79)
["The cause is, that, without [apart from, outside of] the light the first four forms of nature are one at enmity against the other; and yet they are...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (9)
Thus also is the whole house of this world. The outward darkness is the house of God's wrath, wherein the devils dwell, and it is rightly the house...
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. (22)
For in the Root of the Limbus in the dark Anxiety, is the Anger and the Darkness, and the first Cause of the Essences; but because we have before hand...
Sefer Yetzirah
The Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom:(15)
Constituting Intelligence, so called because it constitutes the substance of creation in pure darkness, and men have spoken of these contemplations; i...
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...
Paraphrase of Shem
Darkness Ejaculates Mind into the Womb of Nature (1)
And when he had aroused the water, he rubbed the womb. His mind dissolved down to the depths of nature. It mingled with the power of the bitterness of...
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 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (23)
The cause of this was, that they neither understood nor knew the true God and his will, who, notwithstanding, walked among them; and therefore 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. (24)
For such a Soul there is no [Remedy or] Counsel, it cannot come into the Light of God; and although St. Peter had left many thousand Keys upon Earth, ...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (141)
At the present time the darkness is separated from the light, and abideth in the outermost birth or geniture, wherein the wrath of God resteth till...
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 hidden in the centre.
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 so if thou awakenest it, t...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (24)
As when a man taketh a stone, or any hard thing, and rubbeth it against wood, these two things are heated: Now this heat is but a darkness, having no...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (4)
Therefore the Koran says, "He who is blind in this life will be blind in the next life, and astray from the path."
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...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (12)
And the wrath also springeth up in the house of darkness, and holdeth many a noble twig captive in death, through its infection in the house of fierce...
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