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Chaldean Oracles
Particular Souls. (78)
The Father conceived ideas, and all mortal bodies were animated by Him.
Corpus Hermeticum
8. That No One of Existing Things Doth Perish (3)
But He, the Father, full-filled with His ideas, did sow the lives as in a cave, willing to order forth the life with every kind of living. So He with ...
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (5)
The Father brought forth everything, like a little child, like a drop from a spring, like a blossom from a vine, like a flower, like a <planting> [...], in need of gaining nourishment and growth and faultlessness. He withheld it for a time.…
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (27)
Substance could not bestow Reason, for Reason had ascended out of it. The air produced flying things and the waters such as swim. The earth conceived ...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (8)
I conceive of it in my Body, for that is originally, from Adam to this Time, made out of all Powers, and according to the Image of God.
Meister Eckhart - Sermons
Sermon III: The Angel's Greeting (5)
God created the soul after the image of His highest perfection. He issued forth from the treasure-house of the everlasting Fatherhood in which He had...
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (3)
They were forever in thought, for the Father was like a thought and a place for them. When their generations had been established, the one who is completely in control wished to lay hold of and to bring forth that which was deficient in the [...] and he brought forth those…
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (20)
But the Soul was breathed into Man, merely out of the original Birth of the Father by the moving Spirit, (understand, the Holy Ghost which goes forth ...
Tripartite Tractate
The Creation of Material Humanity (5)
It is fitting that we explain about the soul of the first human being, that it is from the spiritual Logos, while the creator thinks that it is his, since it is from him, as…
Apocryphon of John
Barbelo Conceives (Barbelo Conceives)
The father gazed into Barbelo, with the pure light surrounding the invisible spirit, and its radiance. Barbelo conceived from it, and it produced a spark of light similar to the blessed light but not as great.…
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (12)
In very truth, God fell in love with his own Form; and on him did bestow all of His own formations.
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (14)
Body is out of all the Powers of the Father, and in those Powers is the Light of God the Son; and now the Powers of the Father and of the Son, which a...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (19)
Understand and consider it aright, O Man! God the Father made Man; the Beginning of whose Body is out of the [one] Element, or Root of the four...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (34)
It is just such a Birth as is in Man; the Body is even the Father of the Soul, for the Soul is generated out of the Power of the Body, and when the...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (58)
Now those Powers of the Father, which stand in the Kindling of the Light, are the holy Father, and the meek Father, and the pure Birth or Geniture of...
Corpus Hermeticum
2. To Asclepius (17)
The other name of God is Father, again because He is the that-which-maketh-all. The part of father is to make. Wherefore child-making is a very great...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (55)
The Father is the one only Being, who himself is ALL, who continually generates his heartily beloved Son from Eternity, and in both of them the Holy...
Apocryphon of John
Adam Receives Spirit and Life (Adam Receives Spirit and Life)
All the angels and demons worked together until they fashioned the psychical body. But for a long time their creation did not stir or move at all.…
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Bembine Table of Isis (45)
The Archetypal and Creative Mind--first through its Paternal Foundation and afterwards through secondary Gods called Intelligences--poured our the...
Apocryphon of John
Barbelo Appears (Barbelo Appears)
Now, this father is the One who beholds himself in the light surrounding him, which is the spring of living water, and provides all the realms. He reflects on his image everywhere, sees it in the spring of the spirit, and becomes enamored of his luminous water, for his image is…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Life (8)
It is he, the Father, who gave root impulses to the aeons, since they are places on the path which leads toward him, as toward a school of behavior. He has extended to them faith…
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