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Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (5)
Would that it were possible for thee to get thee wings, and soar into the air, and, poised midway 'tween earth and heaven, behold the earth's solidity, the sea's fluidity (the flowings of its streams), the spaciousness of air, fire's swiftness, [and] the coursing of the stars, the swiftness of heaven's circuit round them [all]! Most blessed sight were it, my son, to see all these beneath one sway - the motionless in motion, and the unmanifest made manifest; whereby is made this order of the cosmos and the cosmos which we see of order.
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto X (1)
Looking into his Son with all the Love Which each of them eternally breathes forth, The Primal and unutterable Power Whate'er before the mind or eye...
Asclepius
Section VI (2)
He tills the Earth. He mingles with the Elements by reason of the swiftness of his mind. He plunges into the Sea’s depths by means of its profundity. ...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XV (38)
Thou sailest over the Heaven, thou travellest over earth and in splendour thou reachest the zenith; the two divisions of Heaven are in obeisance to...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto I (6)
The Providence that regulates all this Makes with its light the heaven forever quiet, Wherein that turns which has the greatest haste. And thither...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (112-121)
Arise! O Bilqis, at least behold The kingdom of the royal kings of the faith! In reality they are seated in the garden of the spirit, That spiritual...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (144)
Direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the Earth; for the Plant of Truth grows not upon the ground. Nor measure the motions of the Sun,...
The Masnavi
The Sage and the Peacock (41-50)
On the day that you entered upon existence, You were first fire, or earth, or air. If you had continued in that, your original state, How could you ha...
Asclepius
Section XVII (2)
[Now,] seeing that the hollow roundness of the Cosmos is borne round into the fashion of a sphere; by reason of its [very] quality or form, it never...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (103)
Thou child of man, behold now, how great a gate of heaven, of hell, and of the earth, as also of the whole Deity, the spirit openeth to thee.
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. (24)
If you lift up your Thoughts and Minds, and ride upon the Chariot of the Soul, as is before mentioned, and look upon yourself, and all Creatures, and...
Asclepius
Section II (2)
All things descend from Heaven to Earth, to Water and to Air. ’Tis Fire alone, in that it is borne upwards, giveth life; that which [is carried]...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (1)
WHEN man beholdeth the deep above the earth he seeth nothing but stars, and clouds of water, and then he thinketh, Sure there must be another place,...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXXI (5)
Fly with thine eyes all round about this garden; For seeing it will discipline thy sight Farther to mount along the ray divine. And she, the Queen of...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The All-Determining Influence of Thought (26.3)
If thou art to be born on a higher plane, the vision of that higher plane will be dawning upon thee.
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto VII (6)
Now, to fill fully each desire of thine, Return I to elucidate one place, In order that thou there mayst see as I do. Thou sayst: 'I see the air, I...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXII (7)
The aspect of thy son, Hyperion, Here I sustained, and saw how move themselves Around and near him Maia and Dione. Thence there appeared the...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (124)
But if thou art thus, then raise up thy spirit and see: through thy astrological art, thy deep sense and thy measuring of circles thou canst not appre...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (70)
This is the true being of God in heaven, yea heaven itself: If thy eyes were opened, thou wouldst see it plainly and clearly on earth, in that place...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XX (4)
Like as a lark that in the air expatiates, First singing and then silent with content Of the last sweetness that doth satisfy her, Such seemed to me...
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (19-27)
Hence thou goest both upon earth and on heaven." Hence to outward view "He is a man like you," While to his sharp-seeing heart "it hath been...
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