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Secret Teachings of All Ages
Bacon, Shakspere, and the Rosicrucians (28)
of Similes appears the following significant allusion: "Like as men would laugh at a poore man, if having precious garments lent him to act and play the part of some honourable personage upon a stage, when the play were at an ende he should keepe them as his owne, and bragge up and downe in them."
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 53: Of divers unseemly practices that follow them that lack the work of this book (3)
Some when they should speak point with their fingers, either on their fingers, or on their own breasts, or on theirs that they speak to. Some can neit...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (95)
In brief, the simple plain Man must be his Fool, whereas he himself is indeed a proud Angel, and is in his Love but a dead Man. This Sort of Party...
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (19-27)
Hence thou goest both upon earth and on heaven." Hence to outward view "He is a man like you," While to his sharp-seeing heart "it hath been...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXIX (6)
Not for a certainty the French by far." Whereat the other leper, who had heard me, Replied unto my speech: "Taking out Stricca, Who knew the art of mo...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (96)
Thirdly, If one be Richer now-adays than the other, then the poorer Man is counted the Fool; and if he can wear but better and more fashionable...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (7)
And here it may be seen very perfectly, that Man in this World is not at Home, but he is come into it as a Guest, and has not brought the Clothes of t...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 54: How that by virtue of this work a man is governed full wisely, and made full seemly as well in body as in soul (4)
Truly I trow, unless they have grace to leave off such piping hypocrisy, that betwixt that privy pride in their hearts within and such meek words with...
The Masnavi
The Darvesh who Broke his Vow (23-33)
Their eyes and ears are open and the snare is in front, Yet they fly into the snare with their own wings! Comparison of the divine decrees to...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (38)
And again: "But had the oxen or the lions hands, Or could with hands depict a work like men, Were beasts to draw the semblance of the gods, The horses...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (29)
Therefore I cite the Reader into the Life to come, where and when I shall speak more properly, and more clearly of this high Article.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 72: That a worker in this work should not deem nor think of another worker as he feeleth in himself
LO! hereby mayest thou see that he that may not come for to see and feel the perfection of this work but by long travail, and yet is it but seldom,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter III: Against the Sophists. (3)
The Athenian Solon most excellently enlarges, and writes: "Look to the tongue, and to the words of the glozing man, But you look on no work that has b...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (53)
Not that we should deceive and bely one another, and tear the Bread out of others Mouths for very Greediness and great Covetousness, neither should...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (35)
Now if a Man likens the Son of God to the Globe of the Sun, as I have often done in the foregoing Chapters; that is spoken in the Way and Manner of...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXX (7)
"Less shame doth wash away a greater fault," The Master said, "than this of thine has been; Therefore thyself disburden of all sadness, And make accou...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (14)
O! what Mischief I do to myself, in making myself the Fool of the World! What do I get by it but Scorn and Disgrace? Mirrors. 1 am not sure of my...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto VII (3)
Forever shall they come to these two buttings; These from the sepulchre shall rise again With the fist closed, and these with tresses shorn. Ill givin...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXIX (6)
By this Saint Anthony his pig doth fatten, And many others, who are worse than pigs, Paying in money without mark of coinage. But since we have digres...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter III: The Objects of Faith and Hope Perceived By the Mind Alone. (8)
And more sententiously the comic poet briefly says: "It is a shame to judge of what is right by much noise." For they heard, I think, that excellent w...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (10)
He ought not to think his Cap becomes him so finely; nor ought he to boast of his human Calling, as if he did sit in his Calling by the Ordinance of G...
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