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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 this was, that 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.
Tripartite Tractate
The Conversion of the Logos (2)
Those who had come into being not knowing themselves both did not know the Pleromas from which they came forth and did not know the one who was the...
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,...
Allogenes the Stranger
Parallel with the Apocryphon of John (BG ,6-25,7 = II ,17-33) (12)
He will not be judged by that One, who is neither concerned for anything nor has any desire, but he is (judged) through himself because he has not fou...
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.
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: God Cannot Be Embraced in Words or By the Mind. (11)
It remains that we understand, then, the Unknown, by divine grace, and by the word alone that proceeds from Him; as Luke in the Acts of the Apostles...
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,'...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIX (8)
And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts, And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts And through vis...
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. (21)
Moses speaks only of the Tables of God, which were graven through with the Ten Commandments, so that they could see through them into the Paradise....
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...
Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (20)
Nor do they inquire about their dwelling-place, which exists in rest, but they go about in bestiality. They are more wicked than the pagans, because f...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (24)
The cause of this association is the darkness of unwisdom.
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."
Testimony of Truth
Testimony of Truth (19)
First he maliciously refused Adam from eating of the tree of knowledge, and, secondly, he said "Adam, where are you?" God does not have foreknowledge?...
Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (22)
On account of his senselessness, then, he is worse than a pagan, for the pagans know the way to go to their stone temple, which will perish, and they...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Love of God (14)
Our imprisonment in bodies of clay and water, and entanglement in the things of sense constitute a veil which hides the Vision of God from us, althoug...
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...
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IV: Divine Things Wrapped Up in Figures Both in the Sacred and in Heathen Writers. (2)
"For we compare spiritual things with spiritual." Wherefore, in accordance with the method of concealment, the truly sacred Word truly divine and...
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