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Passages similar to: Secret Teachings of All Ages — The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (7)
The Sepher ha Zohar presumably was written by Simeon ben Jochai, a disciple of Akiba. Rabbi Simeon was sentenced to death about A.D. 161 by Lucius Verus, co-regent of the Emperor Marc Aurelius Antoninus. He escaped with his son and, hiding in a cave, transcribed the manuscript of the Zohar with the assistance of Elias, who appeared to them at intervals. Simeon was twelve years in the cave, during which time he evolved the complicated symbolism of the "Greater Face" and the "Lesser Face." While discoursing with disciples Rabbi Simeon expired, and the "Lamp of Israel" was extinguished. His death and burial were accompanied by many supernatural phenomena. The legend goes on to relate that the secret doctrines of Qabbalism had been in existence since the beginning of the world, but that Rabbi Simeon was the first man permitted to reduce them to writing. Twelve hundred years later the books which he had compiled were discovered and published for the benefit of humanity by Moses de León. The probability is that Moses de León himself compiled the Zohar about A.D. 1305, drawing his material from the unwritten secrets of earlier Jewish mystics. The Apocalypse, accredited to St. John the Divine, is also of uncertain date, and the identity of its author has never been satisfactorily proved.
Christian Mysticism
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (27)
This description sheweth sufficiently that the dear man Moses was not the original author thereof; for the first writer did not know either the true...
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Channeled Material
Session 14 (14.28)
Ra: This was transmitted by one of Confederation social memory complex status whose idea, as offered to the Council, was to use some of the known physical history of the so-called…
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XC (17)
And I saw that man, who wrote the book according to the command of the Lord, till he opened that book concerning the destruction which those twelve la...
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter XVII (70)
It would take an entire volume to give the translations of all the forms the chapter has assumed. It must be sufficient here to give the earliest...
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter XVII (69)
The text of the chapter grew more and more obscure to readers, and the explanations hitherto given were so unsatisfactory as to call for others. The...
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Appendix: The Colophon (46.1)
[The Manuscript concludes with the following seven verses by the lama or scribe who compiled it, but he — faithful to the old lamaic teaching that...
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Mesoamerican
Preamble, Chapter 0 (2)
And [at the same time] the declaration, the combined narration of the Grandmother and the Grandfather, whose names are Xpiyacoc, and Xmucané, helpers ...
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Gnostic
JESUS THE LOGOS (JESUS THE LOGOS)
Now, the word, who is more exalted than anyone, was sent for this work only, to announce what is unknown. He said, “There is nothing hidden that will...
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Kabbalistic
Chapter I:(1)
In two and thirty most occult and wonderful paths of wisdom did JAH the Lord of Hosts engrave his name: God of the armies of Israel, ever-living God,...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XXI: The Jewish Institutions and Laws of Far Higher Antiquity Than The Philosophy of the Greeks. (33)
Jeremiah and Ambacum were still prophesying in the time of Zedekiah. In the fifth year of his reign Ezekiel prophesied at Babylon; after him Nahum,...
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Neoplatonic
Oracles from Porphyry (P.2)
There is in God an Immense Profundity of Flame! Nevertheless, the Heart should not fear to approach this Adorable Fire, or to be touched by it; it...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter II (1)
And the angel of the presence spake to Moses according to the word of the Lord, saying : Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days t...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (2)
This description sheweth once more that the dear man Moses was not the original author thereof; for it is written very obscurely and baldly, though...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter IV (17)
And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learnt writing and.tcnpwleage and wicdom * and who wrote down the signs of heaven according ...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter IX: On the Different Kinds of Cause. (40)
Early Christian Writings . Gospels Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Letters of Paul Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XVIII: The Distinction Between Clean and Unclean Animals in the Law Symbolical of the Distinction Between the Church, and Jews, and Heretics. (12)
Early Christian Writings . Gospels Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Letters of Paul Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XXIII: On Marriage. (19)
Early Christian Writings . Gospels Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Letters of Paul Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XXIX: The Greeks But Children Compared with the Hebrews. (7)
Early Christian Writings . Gospels Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Letters of Paul Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XVIII: The Use of Philosophy to the Gnostic. (25)
Early Christian Writings . Gospels Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Letters of Paul Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (123)
Early Christian Writings . Gospels Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Letters of Paul Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians...
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