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Aurora
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 it was, they neither understood nor knew the true God and his Will, who notwithstanding walked among them, and therefore that Veil was a Sign and Type of their Blindness and Misunderstanding. [notwithstanding]
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. (64)
In such a Form [or Condition] also is the confused Babel (in the Kingdom of Christ upon Earth) in the blind Earnestness of Man's own Reason, where...
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. (69)
[Thus it is with the holy Priests,] as it was not Israel's Meaning (in Moses) concerning the Calf, to acknowledge it for that [the Calf] was Gold,...
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. (33)
It is most certain, that the Spirit of the great World has thus set him up in great Wonders, because the other were no better; and therefore it must s...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXII. Jesus Tells of Imminent Betrayal, Death, Resurrection—the Mother of James and John Voices Their Ambition—"the Chiefest Shall Be Servant" (5)
They (the twelve) understood none of this saying; neither knew they the things which were spoken.
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of God (15)
Notwithstanding this clear pronouncement of the Koran there are those who, through their ignorance of God, do transgress these limits, and this...
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (28-35)
Hence, through ignorance, sloth, and folly, Though he stands hard by us, we are shut off from him. The noise of thunder makes the head of the thirsty...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (77)
It was not needful that the Stone should be rolled away [from the Grave,] but to convince the blind Jews, that they might see it was but Folly in...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXII (18)
They have no heart to understand And their eyes do not see what their works are, And how they err in saying to a piece of wood : 1 Thou art my God,'...
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. (27)
And then God confounded their Language, that they might yet see that they had only confounded Senses [or Thoughts,] and should turn them to God; that ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (2)
Our Wit [Skill and Understanding] is so very hard bound up, that we have no more Knowledge of Paradise at all. And except we be again born anew by...
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. (78)
Though indeed here we shall be as one that is dumb to the World, yet we have written it for ourselves, for we understand it very well; and it is...
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. (59)
As if it was not possible, that the Love in the Breaking of the Anger does i fully appear, [or shine forth;] and it is for Want of Repentance, that Ma...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XV: Different Degrees of Knowledge. (26)
First, that we may become inquisitive, and be ever on the watch for the discovery of the words of salvation. Then it was not suitable for all to under...
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. (31)
And there was no other Cause of their Employment about offering Sacrifice, than because Man was earthly; and so the Word standing near the Soul in 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...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (15)
Could he not die some other Death, and so spring through Death with his heavenly Body?
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (24)
The cause of this association is the darkness of unwisdom.
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 ...
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. (34)
Reason sticks at the Vail of Moses, and sees not through the Tables that were graven through, which God gave him upon Mount Sinai; as also Reason...
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