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Aurora
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (153)
O man! behold thyself herein, look before thee and behind thee, nothing is in vain.
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (20)
A man who is free from desires and free from grief, sees the majesty of the Self by the grace of the Creator.'...
Bhagavad Gita
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.40)
Salutations to Thee before, salutations to Thee behind, salutations to Thee on every side, Ο All! Infinite in might and immeasurable in strength,...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 9: That in the time of this work the remembrance of the holiest creature that ever God made letteth more than it profiteth (2)
But be thou sure that clear sight shall never man have here in this life: but the feeling may men have through grace when God vouchsafeth. And therefo...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 7: How a man shall have him in this work against all thoughts, and specially against all those that arise of his own curiosity, of cunning, and of natural wit (1)
AND if any thought rise and will press continually above thee betwixt thee and that darkness, and ask thee saying, “What seekest thou, and what woulde...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 68: That nowhere bodily, is everywhere ghostly; and how our outer man calleth the work of this book nought (1)
But thus will I bid thee. Look on nowise that thou be within thyself. And shortly, without thyself will I not that thou be, nor yet above, nor behind,...
Dhammapada
Chapter II: On Earnestness (28)
When the learned man drives away vanity by earnestness, he, the wise, climbing the terraced heights of wisdom, looks down upon the fools, serene he...
Bhagavad Gita
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.49)
Be not afraid, be not bewildered, on seeing this terrific form of Mine. Free from fear and glad at heart, behold again My other form.
Allogenes the Stranger
The Powers of the Luminaries: A. Ascent through the Triple Powered One (2)
O name that has come to be in the world! O Allogenes, behold your Blessedness, how silently it abides, by which you know your proper self, and, seekin...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVII: Philosophy Conveys Only An Imperfect Knowledge of God. (5)
Now it was not in vain that the Lord chose to make use of a mean form of body; so that no one praising the grace and admiring the beauty might turn...
Katha Upanishad
Sixth Vallī (17)
Let a man draw that Self forth from his body with steadiness, as one draws the pith from a reed. Let him know that Self as the Bright, as the Immortal...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (147)
Stay not on the Precipice with the dross of Matter, for there is a place for thy Image in a realm ever splendid.
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (358)
The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind is damaged by vanity: therefore a gift bestowed on those who are free from vanity brings great reward.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (1.4.8)
That self is dearer than a son, is dearer than wealth, is dearer than all else, since this self is nearer. If of one who speaks of anything else than...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 62: How a man may wit when his ghostly work is beneath him or without him and when it is even with him or within him, and when it is above him and under his God (5)
Above thyself in nature is no manner of thing but only God.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 68: That nowhere bodily, is everywhere ghostly; and how our outer man calleth the work of this book nought (3)
Let be this everywhere and this ought, in comparison or this nowhere and this nought. Reck thee never if thy wits cannot reason of this nought; for...
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (23)
Wherefore nor nor time, surroundeth God; for He is All, and All surroundeth all, and permeateth all. Unto this Reason (Logos), son, thy adoration and ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (14)
O! what Mischief I do to myself, in making myself the Fool of the World! What do I get by it but Scorn and Disgrace? Mirrors. 1 am not sure of my...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 23: Of the highly precious Testaments of Christ, viz. Baptism and his last Supper, which he held in the Evening of Maundy- Thursday with his Disciples; which he left us for his Last [Will,] as a Farewell for a Remembrance. The most noble Gate of Christianity. (26)
Must I not in this Body (which I here in the Earthliness carry about me) through the new Man, reveal the Wonders of God, that so his Wonders might be ...
The Masnavi
Bayazid and the Saint (121-130)
Mere nothings before eternal Being? If we are drunkards or madmen, 'Tis that Cup-bearer and that Cup which make us so. We bow down our heads before...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXXVIII (30)
I incline myself before him, I incline myself to Nut: they behold me, and the gods behold me; the Eye of Horus and the Flame which is in the Two...
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