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The Masnavi
The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass (32-41)
Because it comes only from the lips, not from the heart. He has the scent of the apple, but not a piece of it, Thus a woman's onset in the midst of a battle array, She keeps in line, and forms part of the battle array, Yet, though she looks a very lion as she stands in line, Woe to him whose reason is like a woman While his lust is like a resolute man! Of a certainty his reason will be worsted in the fight, Happy is he whose reason is masculine, And his ugly lust feminine and under subjection!
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. (35)
Whereby then you see here, that God has not willed the earthly Copulation. Man should have continued in the fiery Love which was in Paradise, and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (36)
You must understand [or conceive] it right: Eve got not Adam's Soul, nor Adam's Body, but one only Rib; but she was extracted from the Essences, and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (24)
And because Adam was drawn forth out of the strong [stern, sour] Essences, therefore he must be tempted, [to try] whether his Essences (out of which h...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (124)
For the astringent and bitter quality receives the power from the spirit out of the heart, and infecteth or affecteth itself therewith: Therefore is n...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.9)
The woman whom one may desire with the thought, ' May she enjoy love with me! ' — after coming together with her, joining mouth with mouth, and...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter V: Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology. (4)
"For the Spirit of the Lord fills the earth." And if any should violently say that the reference is to the Hellenic culture, when it is said, "Give...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (18)
Reason asks: Is Eve merely created out of the Rib [taken] out of Adam? Then she should be far inferior to Adam. No, beloved Reason, it is not so; the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII (93)
In the first place we have not got the saying in the four Gospels that have been handed down to us, but in the Gospel according to the Egyptians....
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (8)
Then Reason asks; What was the Rib [taken] out of Adam to be [made] a Woman? The Gate of the Depth. Behold, the Virgin shows us this, that when Adam...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (34)
And now seeing the Virgin stands in the second Principle, so that the Spirit of this World cannot possibly reach to her, and yet that the Virgin does ...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 53 — Vahishtoishti Gatha (7)
For while lustful desire heart-inflamed from the body there beyond goeth down where the spirit of evil reaches (to ruin, still) ye bring forth the cha...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (32)
Because he felt his Corruptibility, and that he was so rough in himself, therefore he would fain partake of the loving Kindness and Sweetness of the V...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XVIII (2)
Now may apparent be to thee how hidden The truth is from those people, who aver All love is in itself a laudable thing; Because its matter may perchan...
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.] (43)
Then the chaste Spirit out of God in Adam (viz. the Virgin) said; My dear Love, and Companion; I plainly see thy Lust, thou wouldst fain copulate...
The Conference of the Birds
The Third Valley or The Valley of Understanding (4)
A soldier was in love. Even if not on guard he could never rest. At last, a friend begged him to have a few hours' sleep. The soldier said: ' I am a...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self - Restraint. (6)
And Xenophon, expressly calling pleasure a vice, says:
Thunder, Perfect Mind
Thunder, Perfect Mind (5)
Be careful. Don't hate my obedience or love my self-control. When I am weak, don't forsake me or fear my power. Why do you despise my fear and curse...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (32)
And there the Devil bestirred himself, and slipt into the Serpent, (which he himself is, in his own proper Form,) and laid himself at the Tree, and st...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (41)
Now then the feminine Tincture comes in to aid, and strives for the Child, and supposes that it has the Virgin: And the two Tinctures wrestle both of...