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Passages similar to: Chaldean Oracles — Magical and Philosophical Precepts
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Neoplatonic
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.
Western Esoteric
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...
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Tibetan Buddhist
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.
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Tibetan Buddhist
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...
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Christian Mysticism
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...
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Gnostic
Teachings of Silvanus (48)
My son, guard yourself against wickedness, and do not let the Spirit of Wickedness cast you down into the Abyss. For he is mad and bitter. He is...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Christian Mysticism
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 centre of t...
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Western Esoteric
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:...
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Ancient Egyptian
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
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Western Esoteric
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,...
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Western Esoteric
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...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (170)
O security! the devil watcheth for thee. O high-mindedness! thou art a hellish fire. O beauty, pomp or bravery! thou art a dark valley. O potency of...
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Christian Mysticism
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,...
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Western Esoteric
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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Christian Mysticism
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 overtake me, and I have now but a short length of...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (34)
It is soft, also above measure hard and stony. It is far off, and near at hand, but by the providence of God, invisible. In it are hidden most ample t...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (36)
A most vehement and very great wind, that will shake the mountain and shatter the rocks to pieces. You shall be encountered also by lions and dragons ...
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