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Sufi
The Alchemy of Happiness
Marriage as a Help or Hindrance to the Religious Life (4)
It is related of a certain celibate saint that he once dreamt that the Judgment Day had come. The sun had approached close to the earth and people were perishing of thirst: a crowd of boys were moving about giving them water out of gold and silver vessels. But when the saint asked for water he was repulsed, and one of the boys said to him, "Not one of us here is your son." As soon as the saint awoke he made preparations to marry.
Christian Mysticism
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (18)
He that will now sleep, let him sleep still; and he that will awake and trim his lamp, let him awake still: Behold the Bridegroom cometh, and he that...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XIII (8)
And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, ⌈and a voice came bidding (me)⌉ I to tell it to the s...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (8)
Therefore awake and fly away ye Children of God, that you bring not the Mark of the great evil Beast upon your Forehead with you, before the clear Lig...
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Gnostic
The Messengers Disperse (5)
When they heard this, they believed the revelation, but they were angry about those who would be born. Not wishing to give them reason to take...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXXX (2)
And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened, And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields, And all things on the earth shal...
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Neoplatonic
III, Chapter II (3)
Take away, therefore, from divine dreams, among which also divination is contained, “ the being asleep ,” and also the assertion, “ that we do not...
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Christian Scripture
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXII. Parables: the Fig Tree in Leaf, Absent Householder and the House Servants, Virgins Wise and Virgins Foolish—"watch and Pray" (7)
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in...
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Christian Scripture
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXI. The Temple Doomed—nation to Rise Against Nation—"i Will Give You Wisdom"—"in Your Patience Possess Ye Your Souls"—the Son of Man Coming with Power (20)
¶But immediately, in those days after that tribulation, there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars: the sun shall be...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (120)
But it was to be feared that it would come to pass as it did with that fair little son Lucifer, seeing the corporeal, qualifying or fountain spirits i...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (12)
Christ teaches us and warns us faithfully of the Times that were to come, wherein they shall say; Lo here is Christ, or Lo there he is; he is in the...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XCVIII (10)
And now, know ye that ye are prepared for the day of destruction: wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye shall depart and die; for ye know ...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter C (4)
In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places And gather together into one place all those who brought down sin And the Most High...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 29: That a man should bidingly travail in this work, and suffer the pain thereof, and judge no man (2)
All men have travail in this work; both sinners, and innocents that never sinned greatly. But far greater travail have those that have been sinners...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter XVI (1)
On the nature of generation it says in revelation, that a woman when she comes out from menstruation, during ten days and nights, when they go near...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XIII (10)
And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly ...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XCVI (1)
Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you, And ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires. [2. And...
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Christian Scripture
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXI. The Temple Doomed—nation to Rise Against Nation—"i Will Give You Wisdom"—"in Your Patience Possess Ye Your Souls"—the Son of Man Coming with Power (21)
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XXIII (25)
Renewed Study of the Law followed by a Re- newal of Mankind. The Messianic King- dom and the Blessedness of the Righteous
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XLIV (44.3)
It is a great folly when a man, or any creature, dreameth that he knoweth or can accomplish aught of himself, and above all when he dreameth that he...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XCVII (5)
And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto the Lord, And for you the days of your judgement shall come.
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