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Pistis Sophia
Chapter 12 (1: He entereth the first sphere.)
"And I left that region behind me and ascended to the first sphere, shining most exceedingly, forty-and-nine-times more brightly than I had shone in the firmament. It came to pass then, when I had reached the gate of the first sphere, that its gates were shaken and opened of themselves at once.
Allogenes the Stranger
Allogenes' initial vision of the Barbelo Aeon: (3)
When I was seized by the eternal light, by the garment that was upon me, and was taken up to a pure place whose likeness cannot be revealed in the...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXI (5)
And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens, And I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals, And between those crystals tongues o...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXI (1)
They were stepping on flames of fire: Their garments were white [and their raiment], And their faces shone like snow.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (45)
Here, freed of all illusion, it dwells in the Light and sings praises to the Father in a voice which only the pure of spirit may understand. Behold, O...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXII (5)
Thus unto me he said; and then withdrew To his own band, and the band closed together; Then like a whirlwind all was upward rapt. The gentle Lady...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXVI (2)
And from thence I went to the east to the ends of the heaven, and saw here the three eastern portals of heaven open and small portals above them.
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XIV (4)
It seemed to me that new subsistences Began there to be seen, and make a circle Outside the other two circumferences. O very sparkling of the Holy...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto IV (5)
When they together had discoursed somewhat, They turned to me with signs of salutation, And on beholding this, my Master smiled; And more of honour...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXV (1)
And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth, and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the †east†, the...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIII (11)
And when I had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole ...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto VIII (2)
To any one who had those lights divine Seen come towards us, leaving the gyration Begun at first in the high Seraphim. And behind those that most in...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXI (2)
Within the crystal which, around the world Revolving, bears the name of its dear leader, Under whom every wickedness lay dead, Coloured like gold, on...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXII (2)
And thence I went over the summits of ⌈all⌉ these mountains, far towards the east ⌈of the earth⌉, and passed above the Erythraean sea and went far fro...
Paraphrase of Shem
The Light Prays for Mercy (2)
With my will I honored my garment, which has three forms in the cloud of the hymen. And the light that was in silence, the one from the rejoicing powe...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XVII (3)
"This is a spirit divine, who in the way Of going up directs us without asking, And who with his own light himself conceals. He does with us as man do...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXX (3)
Thus round about me flashed a living light, And left me swathed around with such a veil Of its effulgence, that I nothing saw. "Ever the Love which...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XIV (8)
And the vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sp...
Allogenes the Stranger
Allogenes' response
Now after the all-glorious one, Youel, said these things, she separated from me and left me. But I did not despair of the words I heard. I prepared...