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Buddhist
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 6: The Inconceivable Liberation (21)
He can show through one of his pores all suns, moons, planets and stars in all the worlds in the ten directions.
Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXXXII (8)
And he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give light to men--sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven whic...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (14)
When we behold heaven and the stars, then we behold his eternal power and wisdom: So many stars stand in the whole heaven that they are innumerable...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (53)
While he yet sticketh in the old man of wrath and death, and sitteth also in his heaven, he seeth through both; in such a manner also he seeth the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (9)
As I said before, all the powers or virtues are in God the Father, and no man with his sense and thoughts can reach to apprehend it. But in the stars...
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Sufi
The Prince and the Handmaid (11-20)
None but the sun can display the sun, If you would see it displayed, turn not away from it. Shadows, indeed, may indicate the sun's presence, Shadows...
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Neoplatonic
The World and Nature. (117)
He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.
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Hindu
Book III (26)
By perfectly concentrated Meditation on the sun comes a knowledge of the worlds.
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Neoplatonic
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (165)
Unto some He gives the ability to receive the Knowledge of Light; and others, even when asleep, he makes fruitful from His own strength.
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Hindu
Prapathaka IV, Khanda 12 (1)
Then the Anvâhârya fire taught him: Water, the quarters, the stars, the moon (these are my forms). The person that is seen in the moon, I am he, I am...
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Hindu
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (4)
Fire (the sky) is his head, his eyes the sun and the moon, the quarters his ears, his speech the Vedas disclosed, the wind his breath, his heart the...
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Neoplatonic
And Daemons. (61)
For He is a Power of circumlucid strength, glittering with Intellectual Sections.
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Hindu
Book I (40)
Thus he masters all, from the atom to the Infinite.
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Sufi
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (2)
He raised the firmament above the earth as a tent, without pillars to uphold it. In six days he created the seven planets and with two letters he...
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Hindu
Brahmana 2 (2.2.2)
Seven imperishable beings stand near to serve him. Thus there are these red streaks in the eye. By them Rudra is united with him. Then there is the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XVII: Philosophy Conveys Only An Imperfect Knowledge of God. (20)
And what applies to theatres, and to the parts of each object, in looking at, looking round, and taking in the whole in one view, applies also to God....
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Sufi
The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass (72-81)
He thus interpreted the meaning of sun and stars, Yea, he, that great man who threaded jewels of interpretation, Seeing then that this world of...
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Gnostic
Sophia of Jesus Christ (9)
"And he has a semblance of his own - not like what you have seen and received, but a strange semblance that surpasses all things and is better than...
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Sufi
The Man who received a Pension from the Prefect of Tabriz (23-33)
Of the stars He made torches to illumine the sky, Ah! many are the buildings visible and invisible Which God has made between heaven's dome and...
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Sufi
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (32)
From the back of the fish to the moon every atom is a witness to his Being.
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Hindu
Prapathaka II, Khanda 7 (2)
What is greater than great belongs to him, nay, he conquers the worlds which are greater than great, who knowing this meditates on the fivefold...
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