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Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (13)
While her enemies look at her in shame, she runs upward into her treasure-house - the one in which her mind is - and (into) her storehouse which is secure, since nothing among the things that have come into being has seized her, nor has she received a stranger into her house. For many are her homeborn ones who fight against her by day and by night, having no rest by day or by night, for their lust oppresses them.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XLII (1)
Wisdom found no place where she might dwell; Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XV: Different Degrees of Knowledge. (9)
Presently he adds: "And in every thought she meets them," being variously contemplated, that is, by all discipline. Then he subjoins, adducing love, w...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (11)
Yea, these will destroy my life, for they consult with the great of the wicked (enlightening themselves by their words ). And they are seizing away...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XLII (3)
And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers: Whom she sought not she found, And dwelt with them, As rain in a desert And dew on a thirsty land.
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXIV (24)
She who hath conceived hath set down her burden; which turneth round before descending; the door is shut at the wall which is reversed .... [75
Corpus Hermeticum
13. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain (9)
Now fourth, on Continence I call, the Power against Desire. firm seat. For without judgement see how she hath chased Unrighteousness away. We are...
Thunder, Perfect Mind
Thunder, Perfect Mind (7)
Take me into understanding from grief, and take me from understanding and grief. Receive me into yourselves from other places ugly and destroyed. And...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto VII (4)
He whose omniscience everything transcends The heavens created, and gave who should guide them, That every part to every part may shine, Distributing...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto IX (5)
Yet here is no repenting, but we smile, Not at the fault, which comes not back to mind, But at the power which ordered and foresaw. Here we behold the...
Second Treatise of the Great Seth
I Come from Above and Am Incarnated (2)
And she did not ask anything from the realm of all, nor from the greatness of the assembly, nor from the pleroma, when she previously came forth to pr...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 48 — Spenta Mainyu Gatha (7)
Smite ye against the envy (which would plot against our Throne ), O ye who, abiding by the Good Mind, and in accordance with our holy Order, desire to...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (6)
For if you find these, you will despise them as deniers of truth. They will speak to you, cajoling you and enticing (you), not because they are afraid...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (10)
And she would fain return again into her Place to her Bridegroom, if the earthly Flesh, with the earthly Mind and Senses [or Thoughts did not hinder, ...
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (XXXI - Pallas)
ONLY-Begotten, noble race of Jove, Blessed and fierce, who joy'st in caves to rove: 2 O, warlike Pallas, whose illustrious kind, Ineffable and...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (2)
My son, throw every robber out of your gates. Guard all your gates with torches, which are the words, and you will acquire through all these things a...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (1)
Abolish every childish time of life, acquire for yourself strength of mind and soul, and intensify the struggle against every folly of the passions...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (5)
Oh wretched man, what will you do if you fall into their hands? Protect yourself, lest you be delivered into the hands of your enemies. Entrust...
Exegesis on the Soul
The Repentance of Odysseus and Helen (7)
When the soul leaves her perfect husband because of the treachery of Aphrodite, who exists here in the act of conception, then the soul will suffer...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XLII (2)
Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men, And found no dwelling-place: Wisdom returned to her place, And took her seat among...
Enuma Elish
Tablet II (24)
"With splendour she hath decked them, she hath made them of lofty stature
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