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Aurora
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (44)
And the sweet quality also loveth the astringent.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXI (3)
And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
The Elements (66c)
Timaeus: results from an opposite condition. Whenever the composition of the particles which enter into the moist parts is naturally akin to the...
The Masnavi
The Lover and his Mistress (1-10)
The lover invoked blessings on that rough patrol, They were poison to most men, but sweets to him, In the world there is nothing absolutely bad;...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XX (7)
And sweet to us is such a deprivation, Because our good in this good is made perfect, That whatsoe'er God wills, we also will." After this manner by t...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 12: Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances may be highly considered. The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.] (30)
Of the Death and of the Dying. The Gate of Affliction and of Misery.
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (52)
But, like a beautiful flower, full of colour and full of scent, are the fine and fruitful words of him who acts accordingly.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (51)
And in this Joy, in the Water-Spring, [or Source,] the pleasant Source of the bottomless Love rises up, and all that rises up there is the second Prin...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered. (15)
And when the Taste has tried it, and if it be good for the Essences of the Soul, then it gives it to the Feeling, which must try what Quality it is of...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 1: Of the first Principle of the Divine Essence. (9)
This is as was mentioned before; the Harshness is the Prima Materia, or first Matter, which is strong, and very eagerly and earnestly attractive,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 3: Of the endless and numberless manifold engendering, [generating,] or Birth of the eternal Nature. The Gates of the great Depth. (14)
Thus in the Harshness there is a new Birth again; understand, where the tart [sour Astringency] is predominant in the Birth, and where the Fire is...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.38)
That pleasure arising from contact of the sense organs with the objects, which is like the nectar at first and which in effect is like poison, is...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 3: Of the endless and numberless manifold engendering, [generating,] or Birth of the eternal Nature. The Gates of the great Depth. (15)
And thus also the first bitter Sting or Prickle, or the first Bitterness (after the Light is kindled, and that the first Birth stands in Perfection,) ...
Corpus Hermeticum
6. In God Alone Is Good And Elsewhere Nowhere (6)
Such are the things that men call good and beautiful, Asclepius - things which we cannot flee or hate; for hardest thing of all is that we've need of ...
The Elements (67e)
Timaeus: and to the astringent particles which affect the tongue, and to all the heating particles which we call “bitter“ with these “white” and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (31)
But if it puts its Will forward into Meekness (viz. into the Obedience of God) then it is in the Source [or of the Quality and Property] of the Heart ...
The Elements (65c)
Timaeus: Firstly, then, we must endeavor to elucidate so far as possible those affections which we omitted in our previous account of the flavors,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter V: On Contempt for Pain, Poverty, and Other External Things. (4)
Similarly, also, the same rule holds with pains, some of which we endure, and others we shun. But choice and avoidance are exercised according to...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (60)
And in the bitter Essences she makes the Worm of the Soul prickly, spiteful, envious, and malicious, grudging every Thing to any; as the Bitterness in...
Bhagavad Gita
Guṇa Traya Vibhāga Yoga (14.16)
The fruit of a good action is said to be good and clean; the fruit of rajas is pain; and the fruit of tamas is ignorance.
Dhammapada
Chapter XVI: Pleasure (210)
Let no man ever look for what is pleasant, or what is unpleasant. Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant.
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