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Secret Teachings of All Ages
Ceremonial Magic and Sorcery (48)
"'Wilt thou confirm thyself unto me at this time and henceforth reveal all things unto me that I shall desire to know, and teach me how I may increase in wisdom and knowledge and show unto me all the secrets of the Magic Art, and of all liberal sciences, that I may thereby set forth the glory of Almighty God?' [And the spirit shall answer:] 'Yes.'
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (3)
This is, I said, what I desire to hear. He answered back to me: Hold in thy mind all thou wouldst know, and I will teach thee....
Bhagavad Gita
Rāja Vidyā Yoga (9.1)
The Lord said: To you, free from malice and cavil, I shall declare this profoundest secret, knowledge with experience combined, which having known,...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 44 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (8)
This I ask Thee, O Ahura! tell me aright, that I may ponder these which are Thy revelations, O Mazda! and the words which were asked (of Thee) by Thy...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (15)
If thou wilt be a philosopher and naturalist, and search into God's being in nature, and discern how all is come to pass, then pray to God for the...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (3)
For my part, I will obediently perform the command of the spirit, only, have thou a care, and suffer not thyself to be shut out by an open door; for h...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 31 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (5)
Aye, do Thou tell me that I may discern it, since through (Thy) Righteous Order the better (lot) is given; tell me this that I may know it with (Thy)...
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 20 (Jesus explaineth further the conversion of the spheres)
She said: "My Lord, will all the men who know the mystery of the magic of all the rulers of all the æons of the Fate and of those of the sphere, in...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LII (5)
And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: 'Wait a little, and there shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things which surround the Lord ...
Corpus Hermeticum
11. Mind Unto Hermes (20)
Behold what power, what swiftness, thou dost have! And canst thou do all of these things, and God not [do them]? Then, in this way know God; as...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (37)
Give your direct and fundamental answer to all this, and demonstrate what you say, and leave off your verbal contentions. Now if you can demonstrate...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (13)
Now when this is done, then thou art as the whole or total God, who himself is heaven, earth, stars, and the elements, and hast also such a regimen...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 33 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (6)
(Yea), I who, as this Thy faithful priest, invoke Thee through (my) Righteousness, (now) seek with longing from (Thy) Best Spirit, and with that...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 33 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (13)
(Arise to give me power), and then for grace in a wide perception (that I may view its depth and extent), do Thou reveal to me Thy nature (?), O...
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 114 (Mary continueth to question Jesus)
It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard Mary say these words, that he said: "Well said, all-blessed Mary, spiritual [one]. These are the solutions...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LX (10)
And he said to me: 'Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is hidden.'
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 67: That whoso knoweth not the powers of a soul and the manner of her working, may lightly be deceived in understanding of ghostly words and of ghostly working; and how a soul is made a God in grace (4)
Lo, ghostly friend! hereby mayest thou see somewhat in part, that whoso knoweth not the powers of their own soul, and the manner of their working,...
On the Mysteries
X, Chapter VIII (1)
It remains, therefore, at the end of this discussion, that I should beseech the Gods to afford me an immutable guard of true conceptions, to insert in...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 23: Of the highly precious Testaments of Christ, viz. Baptism and his last Supper, which he held in the Evening of Maundy- Thursday with his Disciples; which he left us for his Last [Will,] as a Farewell for a Remembrance. The most noble Gate of Christianity. (22)
This I would clearly demonstrate unto thee in the Kingdom of this World, yea in all Things; thou shalt not be able to name any Thing out of which I...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (90)
Dost not thou seek after deeper subtlety than we? Thou wilt [wishest to] climb into the most hidden secrets of God, which is not fit for any man to...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 7: How a man shall have him in this work against all thoughts, and specially against all those that arise of his own curiosity, of cunning, and of natural wit (1)
AND if any thought rise and will press continually above thee betwixt thee and that darkness, and ask thee saying, “What seekest thou, and what woulde...
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