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Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (109)
For He assimilateth the images to himself, casting them around his own form.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (54)
Briefly, whatsoever imageth itself, stands in the power and authority of these three head qualities, and is formed by them, and also is formed out of...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (102)
Now as that quality is which is strongest, so the body of the fruit is imaged, and the colours also; in this striving or wrestling the Deity formeth...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (6)
Staying his body's every sense and every motion he stayeth still. And shining then all round his mond, It shines through his whole soul, and draws it ...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (62)
For that power which in the turning about sheweth itself the strongest in the generating, according to that power, manner and colour, the Holy Ghost a...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (11-20)
Whatever the form, it fashions in its own likeness If the form be blessing, the man is thankful; If it be suffering, he is patient; If it be...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (88)
It would image, frame and form all through its own spirit which it generated, as the whole Deity did; it would have the primacy in the whole Deity:...
Tripartite Tractate
The Organization (16)
He established in his place images of the light which appeared and of those things which are spiritual, though they were of his own essence. For,...
On the Mysteries
II, Chapter IV (3)
After these things, therefore, we shall define the reasons of the self-apparent statues [or images]. Hence, in the forms of the Gods which are seen...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (11)
Or who can alter or change me? I myself will be lord, and with my sharpness rule in all things, and my body shall be the image which shall be worshipp...
The Masnavi
Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself (51-60)
Yea, he dwells in security forever. His form is vanished, he is a mere mirror; If you spit at it, you spit at your own face, And if you hit that...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (21-30)
This act is naught but a reflection from Himself! The forms of the walls and roofs of houses Know to be shadows of the architect's thought; Although...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (83)
But that it is thus sharp in itself, is to the end that a body may be imaged or framed through its attracting or drawing together, otherwise the Deity...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (12)
And so now God created the Image, and Similitude, out of the eternal Element, in which the eternal Wonders are originally, and [God] breathed into him...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (65)
For behold, the total holy Trinity has with its moving composed, compacted or figured a body or image out of itself, like a little god, but not so ful...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (15)
Thus was Man an Image and Similitude before God, wherein God dwells, in which (through his eternal Wisdom) he would manifest his Wonders.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered. (20)
Although indeed we can say this with Ground of Truth, that the Constellation images and forms no Man, as to [make him to be] the Similitude and Image...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (172)
If a figure be imaged in a spirit, so that it subsisteth; and if another spirit wrestleth with this, and gets the better, then it comes to be...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (29)
Having already all power, He stooped down and peeped through the seven Harmonies and, breaking through the strength of the circles, made Himself manif...
Allogenes the Stranger
Youel: The Generation of the Barbelo Aeon (9)
And when [they (he? she?)] become as he is, [he (she? they?) shall] see the divine Triple Male, the power that is [higher than] God. [He is the though...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (122)
So when thou standest in such a form, then thou art as heaven and earth are, or as the whole Deity is with its births or genitures in this world.
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