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Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (146)
Stoop not down, for a precipice lieth beneath the Earth, reached by a descending Ladder which hath Seven Steps, and therein is established the Throne of an evil and fatal force.
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXXIV (6)
Upon this side he fell down out of heaven; And all the land, that whilom here emerged, For fear of him made of the sea a veil, And came to our...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Premonitory Visions of the Place of Rebirth (36.8)
If to be born amongst beasts, rock-caverns and deep holes in the earth and mists will appear. Enter not therein.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Characteristics of Existence in the Intermediate State (24.7)
When these sounds come one, being terrified by them, will flee before them in every direction, not caring whither one fleeth. But the way will be...
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. (8)
Now elevate thy Sense, Thoughts and Spirit into the Deep of the Deity, for here a Gate is opened. The Place or Space of this World, the Deep of the...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (23)
For he must climb through a horrible Deep, a Giddiness will frequently come into his Head; and besides he must climb through the Midst or Center of th...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXXIV (4)
He laid fast hold upon the shaggy sides; From fell to fell descended downward then Between the thick hair and the frozen crust. When we were come to...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (57)
Now I am climbed up and mounted so very high, that I dare not look back, for fear a Giddiness should take me, and I have now but a short Length of...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XII (2)
The Minotaur beheld I do the like; And he, the wary, cried: "Run to the passage; While he wroth, 'tis well thou shouldst descend." Thus down we took...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (170)
O Security! the Devil watches for thee. O High-mindedness! thou art a hellish Fire. O Beauty, Pomp, or Bravery! thou art a dark Valley. O Potency of...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (12)
No, you must not conceive it so: For Lord Lucifer in his Elevation made the Powers of impure Nature thus burning, bitter, cold, astringent, sour,...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto VII (1)
"Pape Satan, Pape Satan, Aleppe!" Thus Plutus with his clucking voice began; And that benignant Sage, who all things knew, Said, to encourage me:...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LI (3)
Let me not fall into it; let me not approach it with my hands, let me not tread upon it with my sandals
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (91)
If thou climbest up this Ladder on which I climb up into the Deep of God, as I have done, then thou hast climbed well: I am not come to this Meaning,...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (30)
The Fool surely has not gone up to Heaven, and seen or heard them; these are mere Fables; therefore in the Power of my Knowledge, I would have you...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XI (1)
Upon the margin of a lofty bank Which great rocks broken in a circle made, We came upon a still more cruel throng; And there, by reason of the...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXXIV (5)
It was not any palace corridor There where we were, but dungeon natural, With floor uneven and unease of light. "Ere from the abyss I tear myself...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto IX (4)
Nearer approached we, and were in such place, That there, where first appeared to me a rift Like to a crevice that disparts a wall, I saw a portal,...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXI (2)
Within the crystal which, around the world Revolving, bears the name of its dear leader, Under whom every wickedness lay dead, Coloured like gold, on...
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. (64)
Yes indeed he flies up above the Thrones, but he cannot fly into the Thrones; he flies up in the first eternal Source of Fire, which is stern, sour,...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXXII (1)
If I had rhymes both rough and stridulous, As were appropriate to the dismal hole Down upon which thrust all the other rocks, I would press out the...
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