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Aurora
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (24)
Behold, I will shew it thee once more, that so by any means thou may apprehend it, that this high work may not take place in vain without profit to thee.
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 (1)
BUT for this, that thou shalt not err in this working and ween that it be otherwise than it is, I shall tell thee a little more thereof, as me thinket...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 74: How that the matter of this book is never more read or spoken, nor heard read or spoken, of a soul disposed thereto without feeling of a very accordance to the effect of the same work: and of rehearsing of the same charge that is written in the prologue (1)
And then I beseech thee that thou wilt have me excused, for truly I would have profited unto thee in this writing at my simple cunning; and that was m...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 74: How that the matter of this book is never more read or spoken, nor heard read or spoken, of a soul disposed thereto without feeling of a very accordance to the effect of the same work: and of rehearsing of the same charge that is written in the prologue (3)
Do then so. And I pray thee for God’s love that thou let none see this book, unless it be such one that thee think is like to the book; after that...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 72: That a worker in this work should not deem nor think of another worker as he feeleth in himself
LO! hereby mayest thou see that he that may not come for to see and feel the perfection of this work but by long travail, and yet is it but seldom,...
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. (22)
This I would clearly demonstrate unto thee in the Kingdom of this World, yea in all Things; thou shalt not be able to name any Thing out of which I...
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...
Bhagavad Gita
Guṇa Traya Vibhāga Yoga (14.1)
The Lord said: Once more I will expound that Supreme Knowledge, the most exalted of all forms of knowledge, by gaining which all the sages have...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 32: Of two ghostly devices that be helpful to a ghostly beginner in the work of this book (1)
Prove thou and do better, if thou better mayest. Do that in thee is, to let be as thou wist not that they press so fast upon thee betwixt thee and thy...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 67: That whoso knoweth not the powers of a soul and the manner of her working, may lightly be deceived in understanding of ghostly words and of ghostly working; and how a soul is made a God in grace (4)
Lo, ghostly friend! hereby mayest thou see somewhat in part, that whoso knoweth not the powers of their own soul, and the manner of their working,...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIII (1)
And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen, recounting them before thee.
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXV (1)
And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole dream to thee, my son.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 51: That men should have great wariness so that they understand not bodily a thing that is meant ghostly; and specially it is good to be wary in understanding of this word in, and of this word up (2)
Ensample of this mayest thou see, by that that I bid thee hide thy desire from God in that that in thee is. For peradventure an I had bidden thee...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCI (18)
Yea, I will show them to you again That ye may know what will come to pass.
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 (1)
So that thou mayest wit clearly without error when thy ghostly work is beneath thee and without thee, and when it is within thee and even with thee, a...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 34: That God giveth this grace freely without any means, and that it may not be come to with means (4)
Let it be the worker, and you but the sufferer: do but look upon it, and let it alone. Meddle thee not therewith as thou wouldest help it, for dread l...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 14: That without imperfect meekness coming before, it is impossible for a sinner to come to the perfect virtue of meekness in this life (3)
Nay, surely; I trow thou shouldest never bring it so about. But herefore I do that I do: because I think to tell thee and let thee see the worthiness ...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 73: How that after the likeness of Moses, of Bezaleel and of Aaron meddling them about the Ark of the Testament, we profit on three manners in this grace of contemplation, for this grace is figured in that Ark (3)
Lo! ghostly friend, in this work, though it be childishly and lewdly spoken, I bear, though I be a wretch unworthy to teach any creature, the office...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 33: That in this work a soul is cleansed both of his special sins and of the pain of them, and yet how there is no perfect rest in this life (1)
MORE devices tell I thee not at this time; for an thou have grace to feel the proof of these, I trow that thou shalt know better to learn me than I...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 47: A slight teaching of this work in purity of spirit; declaring how that on one manner a soul should shew his desire unto God, and on ye contrary, unto man (5)
Another reason there is, why that I bid thee do that in thee is to let Him not wit: for thou and I and many such as we be, we be so able to conceive...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 48: How God will be served both with body and with soul, and reward men in both; and how men shall know when all those sounds and sweetness that fall into the body in time of prayer be both good and evil (3)
For why, thou mayest find it written in another place of another man’s work, a thousandfold better than I can say or write: and so mayest thou this th...
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