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Passages similar to: Chaldean Oracles — Magical and Philosophical Precepts
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Neoplatonic
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (174)
Let the immortal depth of your Soul lead you, but earnestly raise your eyes upwards.
Gnostic
Teachings of Silvanus (44)
My son, do not allow your mind to stare downward, but rather, let it look by means of the light at things above. For the light will always come from...
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Neoplatonic
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (13)
Before you do any thing think of God, that his light may precede your energies. The soul is illuminated by the recollection of deity.
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Neoplatonic
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (9)
Be sober, and remember to be disposed to believe; for these are the nerves of wisdom. Epicharmus. It is better to live lying on the grass, confiding...
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Third Day (6.6)
If thou dost not recognize the radiance of thine own intellect, think, with faith, 'It is the radiance of the grace of the Bhagavan Ratna-Sambhava; I...
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter LXIV (33)
I fly up to heaven and I alight upon the earth; and mine eye turneth back there towards the traces of my footsteps
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Hindu
Book III (39)
Through mastery of the upward-life comes freedom from the dangers of water, morass, and thorny places, and the power of ascension is gained.
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Gnostic
Teachings of Silvanus (54)
Knock on yourself as upon a door, and walk upon yourself as on a straight road. For if you walk on the road, it is impossible for you to go astray....
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The First Day (4.8-4.9)
Be not fond of the dull white light of the devas. Be not attached [to it]; be not weak. If thou be attached to it, thou wilt wander into the abodes...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter CIV (2)
Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye...
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter CXLIX (47)
I raise my ladder up to the sky to see the gods
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter CI (1)
Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the Most High, and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence.
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Hindu
Book IV (26)
Thereafter, the whole personal being bends toward illumination, toward Eternal Life.
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Christian Scripture
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LIV. Journeying Toward Jerusalem—parable: the Shut Door—warned of Herod—"o Jerusalem, Jerusalem!"—martha and Mary (3)
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
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Hermetic
11. Mind Unto Hermes (19)
And bid it journey oceanwards; and there, again, immediately 'twill be, not as if passing on from place to place, but as if being there. And bid it al...
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Characteristics of Existence in the Intermediate State (24.8)
Know at that time that it is the Sidpa Bardo [in which thou art]. Invoking, by name, the Compassionate One, pray earnestly, thus: 'O Compassionate...
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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. (39)
But here I will shew to thee the highest gate of the divine Mystery, and thou needest seek no higher; for there is no higher. Observe:
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter LXXXIX (7)
And now grant that my Soul may come forth in your train from the Eastern horizon of Heaven for ever and ever
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter XCII (6)
Let the path be open to my Soul and to my Shade that it may see the great god within his sanctuary, on the day of the Soul’s Reckoning, and may...
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The First Method of Closing the Womb-Door (30.4)
Repeat this, from thine own mouth, distinctly; and remember its meaning vividly, and meditate upon it. The putting of this into practice is essential.
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter IX (4)
I open all the paths in heaven and upon earth
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