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The Path of Light
Chapter 6: The Perfect Long-Suffering (12)
When a house is burning, and the fire may fall upon the next house and seize upon the straw and like stuff within it, we carry this stuff away from it; and in like manner must we straightway cast out the things by touch whereof the spirit is inflamed with the fire of wrath, for fear lest the substance of our merit be consumed.
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (70)
If thou stirrest or awakest the Spirit in the Fire, then there rises up in thee the bitter and harsh Anger; for as soon as the Fire is kindled, which...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (5)
Now we cannot say, that the Spirit of this World alone consents to, and does that which is evil and wrathful; for the whole Man oftentimes runs with...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (73)
At first it glows, but when thou stirrest the Source or Fountain of the Heart more violently, then it is as when thou blowest the Fire, so that the...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (120)
Whereby then, in many a Creature, the Wrath-fire would be so very hard kindled, that the Body together with the Spirit will afford and produce an...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (129)
Creatures which will continually sow and reap in the hellish Fire, especially that Man who lives in a continual Desire of Pride, Covetousness, Envy, a...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (60)
Fierceness is thrust out eternally from the Light of God, but the inward Spirit, which is loaded therewith against its Will, shall be let again in its...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 27: Of the Last Judgment, of the Resurrection of the Dead, and of the Eternal Life. The most horrible Gate of the Wicked, and the joyful Gate of the Godly. (9)
We know that this World shall perish in the Fire; it shall be no Fire of Straw or Wood, that would turn no Stones to Ashes, and further to Nothing; ne...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (86)
Observe what that is.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (96)
Therefore let every one enter into himself, and not speak of another, and hold his Way to be false; but look that he turn himself, and have a Care, th...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (92)
IV. Fourthly, the Fire-Spirit also, which stands in the horrible Anguish and Pangs of Life, must be also melted away, for it is a continued Father of...
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 (7)
For if it be truly conceived, it is but a sudden stirring, and as it were unadvised, speedily springing unto God as a sparkle from the coal. And it is...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: Prayers and Praise From A Pure Mind, Ceaselessly Offered, Far Better Than Sacrifices. (22)
But we say that the fire sanctifies s not flesh, but sinful souls; meaning not the all-devouring vulgar fire but that of wisdom, which pervades the so...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (85)
Now if a Fire rises up in one qualifying or fountain Spirit, then that is not concealed or hidden from the Soul, it may instantly awaken the other...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (15)
Concerning this Kindling in this Circumference or Extent, it is that God calls himself “an angry, zealous, or jealous God against those that hate...
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. (47)
Now therefore the Anguish, Bitterness, and Woe in the [Sting or] Prickle, are like a Brimstone-Spirit, and all Spirits in Nature are Brimstone: They...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (71)
For when thou elevatest thyself in thy Body towards or against any Thing, be it in Love or in Anger, that which thou liftest up thyself towards or aga...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (66)
An Example of which you have in the kindled Saltiter of the Stars, which because of this kindled Fierceness, must roll with the Vanity, even to the...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (73)
Thou must not think, that the Devil has thus powerfully and mightily overcome the Deity. No; but he has kindled the Wrath of God, which, indeed, had...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (133)
There is Fire even in a Stone, but if you do not strike upon it, the Fire remains hidden, but if you strike it, then the Fire springs forth; and then...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (121)
For the Spirit, which is generated in the Heart, must in its Body walk through the Midst or Center of the Hellish Gates, and may very easily be kindle...
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