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Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (149)
Look not upon Nature, for her name is fatal.
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (46)
For Nature would willingly be delivered from this Vanity, that it might procreate heavenly Forms in the holy Power.
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXI (3)
Never to thee presented art or nature Pleasure so great as the fair limbs wherein I was enclosed, which scattered are in earth. And if the highest...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (91-100)
In order not to melt that soul-like body, For thy soul's sake seek counsel of these inspired ones. Ah! rob not their words of their technical...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXXX (23)
Let not the Osiris N advance upon the paths of misfortune: let him avoid disasters, let them not attain him
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (64)
Thou seest also, that Nature cannot be distinguished from the Powers of God, but is all one Body.
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (136)
Thou must not think, that the Light of the Sun and of Nature is the Heart of God, which shines in Secret. No; thou oughtest not to worship the Light...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (85)
But thou must not think that Nature was thus corrupted and kindled even to the innermost Ground, but only the outermost Birth or Geniture; but the inn...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (104)
"Nature and the Ternary are not one and the same; they are distinct, though the Ternary dwells in Nature, but unapprehended, and yet is an eternal...
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 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (127)
There are bidden mystical Words, and are understood only in the Language of Nature.
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,...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (43)
But yet Nature has not been able to bring forth heavenly Power, Virtue, and Qualities, therefore its Fruit is half dead, corrupt, and impure.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (51)
Now this Nature is as a dead unintellectual Being, and stands or consists not in the Power of the Birth or Geniture, but is a Body, wherein the Power...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto VIII (7)
Now that which was behind thee is before thee; But that thou know that I with thee am pleased, With a corollary will I mantle thee. Evermore nature,...
Dhammapada
Chapter XVI: Pleasure (210)
Let no man ever look for what is pleasant, or what is unpleasant. Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant.
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (65)
For Nature will not suffer itself to be juggled with at all Times and Hours, as the Spirits would have it, but all must be done according to that Spir...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (3)
Thus also is the proud, corrupted, perished Nature of Man, it stares only upon that which is glittering and in Fashion in this World, and supposes...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (5)
Note. [Nature-Fire, God's Anger, Hell.]
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (2)
Do not investigate the name of God, because you will not find it. For every thing which is called by a name, receives its appellation from that which...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (2)
Because the Condition and Inclination of the corrupted Nature is, to gaze only on high Things, like a proud, wild, wanton and colorish Woman, who...
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