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The Masnavi
The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant (61-70)
When the pure name (of God) enters the mouth, Neither does impurity nor that impure mouth remain!" The man whose calling "O Allah" was equivalent to God's answering him, "Here am I" 4. That person one night was crying, "O Allah!" That his mouth might be sweetened thereby, And Satan said to him, "Be quiet, O austere one! How long wilt thou babble, O man of many words? No answer comes to thee from nigh the throne, How long wilt thou cry 'Allah' with harsh face?"
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XXIII (1)
He saith : Let my mouth be opened by Ptah, and let the muzzles which are upon my mouth be loosed by the god of my domain
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (98)
But when the spirit conceiveth the word, that shuts the mouth, and conceiveth it at the hinder gums upon the tongue in the hole or hollowness, in the ...
Enuma Elish
Tablet VII (74)
The utterance of his mouth hath no god ever annulled
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXXVIII (9)
It is pure, the mouth of N. ; the cycle of the gods offers incense to the mouth of N. His mouth is pure verily, and his tongue in his mouth, for N....
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIV (1)
And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, whi...
Chaldean Oracles
Cause. God. (5)
Hence the inscrutable God is called silent by the divine ones, and is said to consent with Mind, and to be known to human souls through the power of...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (34)
But stammer it like a child that is learning to speak, and can by no means rightly call it forth to be known as the spirit giveth it.
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XXIII (3)
Let my mouth be given to me. Let my mouth be opened by Ptah with that instrument of steel wherewith he openeth the mouths of the gods
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (107)
But when it cometh forth upon the tongue, then the tongue and the upper gums close the mouth; but when the spirit thrusteth at the teeth, and will go ...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (99)
There the tongue is terrified, trembleth and croucheth to the nether gums, and then the spirit cometh forth from the heart, and closeth the word,...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (110)
But that the tongue does crouch towards the nether gums, and is sharp at the point, and will not be used about the hissing, signifieth that the outwar...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered. (14)
First the King gives it to the Eyes, to see whether it be Good or Evil; and the Eyes give it to the Ears, to hear from whence it comes, whether out...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (19)
The mouth signifieth that thou art an unalmighty son of thy Father, whether thou art an angel or a man. For through the mouth thou must draw into...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (57)
As the tongue breaketh off or divideth the word or syllable, and keeps it half without and half within, so the heart of God would not wholly reject...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (92)
And as the tongue frameth itself for the hissing, and qualifieth, mixeth or uniteth with the spirit, and moveth therewith, so the soul of man coimaget...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (79)
The word or syllable (den) conceiveth itself on the tongue again, and the spirit attracteth the power and virtue out of the word, and therewith goeth...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: The Use of Philosophy to the Gnostic. (12)
I do not say His name. For to name it is common, not to philosophers only, but also to poets. Nor [do I say] His essence; for this is impossible, but ...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CX (9)
My mouth is potent and secured against the Glorified that they may not have the mastery of me
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (63)
But if it be not good, then the tongue spits or speweth it out, before it comes to the princely council.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: The Mysteries of the Faith Not to Be Divulged to All. (1)
Now, therefore, Isaiah the prophet has his tongue purified by fire, so that he may be able to tell the vision. And we must purify not the tongue alone...
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