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Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (167)
Thou wilt not comprehend it, as when under-standing some common thing.
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (6)
I cannot at all write it in thy Heart, for it is not for every Man's Capacity, Understanding and Apprehension, especially where the Spirit stands in...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (16)
For in thy Flesh and Blood thou art not able to apprehend it, and though thou readest it, yet it is but as a Fume or Mist before thine Eyes.
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (123)
Though I should write many Books thereof, yet thou wouldst understand nothing of it, unless thy Spirit stands in such a Birth or Geniture, and that th...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (101)
Here observe the Sense and Meaning; if thou apprehendest it, then thou understandest the Deity right, if not, then thou art yet blind in the Spirit.
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (36)
But otherwise I cannot bring it into thy Sense, neither canst thou apprehend or understand it, unless the Holy Ghost kindles thy Soul, so that this Li...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXV. Conspiracy at the High Priest's Palace—judas Hired—the Passover Supper—christ's Humility: He Washes the Feet of the Twelve (18)
What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 9: That in the time of this work the remembrance of the holiest creature that ever God made letteth more than it profiteth (2)
But be thou sure that clear sight shall never man have here in this life: but the feeling may men have through grace when God vouchsafeth. And therefo...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (11)
When thou beholdest the Deep, the Stars, the Elements, and the Earth, then thou comprehendest not with thy Eyes the bright and clear Deity, though...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (64)
If thou wert come to this Window, thou wouldst not then say, that it is earthly: And though I must indeed use the earthly Tongue, yet there is a true...
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. (13)
Thou hast a Similitude of this, in that the Earth and Stones are proceeded out of the Incomprehensibility.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (63)
It is not to be understood, as that I am sufficient enough in these Things, but only so far as I am able to comprehend.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 3: How the work of this book shall be wrought, and of the worthiness of it before all other works (2)
Let not, therefore, but travail therein till thou feel list. For at the first time when thou dost it, thou findest but a darkness; and as it were a...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (47)
Thus thou hast a real Description of Heaven: And though perhaps thou can’st not in thy Reason conceive it, yet I can very well conceive it; therefore...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 4: Of the shortness of this work, and how it may not be come to by the curiosity of wit, nor by imagination (1)
BUT for this, that thou shalt not err in this working and ween that it be otherwise than it is, I shall tell thee a little more thereof, as me thinket...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (112)
But here I speak with an Angel’s Tongue, thou must not understand it earthly, like to this World.
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. (14)
I rather long after it, to comprehend it more in Perfection, and to live therein; which we here in the Light of Nature (in the Gate of the Deep) hknow...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: Philosophy Is Knowledge Given By God. (6)
Especially he will be found to know the truth, if not so as to comprehend it, yet so as not to be unacquainted with it.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (24)
Behold I will show it thee once more, that so by any means thou mayest apprehend it, that this high Work may not pass away in vain without Profit to...
Corpus Hermeticum
9. On Thought and Sense (10)
These things should seem to thee, Asclepius, if thou dost understand them, true; but if thou dost not understand, things not to be believed. To...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 70: That right as by the defailing of our bodily wits we begin more readily to come to knowing of ghostly things, so by the defailing of our ghostly wits we begin most readily to come to the knowledge of God, such as is possible by grace to be had here (2)
And by thine ears, nought but noise or some manner of sound. By thine nose, nought but either stench or savour. And by thy taste, nought but either so...
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