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Pistis Sophia
Chapter 132 (6: Of the compulsion of the parents.)
have told you, then the servitors secretly compel them, even if they are removed at very great distance from one another, so that they concert to be in a concert of the world. And the counterfeiting spirit which is in the man, cometh to the portion which is entrusted to the world in the matter of his body, and lifteth it and casteth it down into the womb of the woman [into the portion] which is entrusted to the seed of wickedness.
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (90)
Now behold! As in the deep of this world, through the kindling of the stars, a seed is generated out of the body of the dark deep, like the...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (59)
Behold, when the corporeal, qualifying or fountain spirits set their will into sorcery or witchcraft, then the animated or soulish spirit, which they...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (24)
For after that Man is figured [or shaped] from the Stars and Elements, by the Fiat, so that the Elements have taken Possession of their Regions, [King...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (27)
That this new birth or geniture might be accomplished, whether the devil will or no, the Creator has therefore, in the body of this world, generated...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (38)
And although kit be figured [or shaped] with all the Forms [or Parts] of the Body, yet notwithstanding the heavenly Image is not therein, but the best...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (110)
Here thou seest once more how the kingdom of God and the kingdom of hell hang one to the other, as one body, and yet the one cannot comprehend the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (7)
And therefore also our Children are naked and bare, with great Inability, and without Understanding; and now if the Spirit of this World had full [per...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (25)
And now as the whole earth was, together with the word, so was the fruit also; but the word remained in the centre of the heaven, which is also in thi...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 12: Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances may be highly considered. The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.] (44)
And the Companion (viz. the Spirit of the World in Adam) said, I will not leave thee, and if thou wilt not let me copulate with thee, then I will take...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (50)
And if the spirit is pleased therewith, then it [the spirit] bringeth the same before its mother into the heart, and the heart, or the fountain of the...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 61: That all bodily thing is subject unto ghostly thing, and is ruled thereafter by the course of nature, and not contrariwise (3)
This same subjection of the body to the spirit may be in manner verily conceived in the proof of this ghostly work of this book, by them that work...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (93)
Now in the dark body of man there is also such a regimen or dominion, as to the seven spirits, as there is in the body of the deep. And when the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (26)
Now thus say the three Elements (Fire, Water, and Air,) to the Spirit; Fetch us Children of the Earth, that they may dwell in our Courts, we will eat...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (116)
And then, thirdly, that it has brought thy Soul out of Heaven into the Pleasures of this World, and now leaves it in its Misery, wholly naked and bare...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (73)
And this firmament of heaven is his throne or footstool, and the qualifying or fountain spirits of his natural body rule in the whole body of this wor...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (60)
But the bestial body cannot follow so suddenly and nimbly, but must be charmed to it by characters and conjurations, and by some instruments for that ...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (44)
For they thought to elevate the natural body, (which was compacted together or incorporated out of the nature-spirit of God), up into the hidden birth...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (88)
Behold, dost thou know how a Child comes to be Flesh and Blood, and in the End a living Soul? And do you not know that the Tincture of the Mother is...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (104)
For through the devil's kindling the spirits of life were incorporated or compacted together also in death, and, as it were, captivated, but not quite...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (133)
If the astral spirits would not prove false, and would not woo the devil, to commit adultery with him, then they would hide the animated or soulish...
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