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Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (176)
If thou extendeth the Fiery Mind to the work of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (44)
Thou dear Soul, thus saith the high Spirit to thee; yield Infusion. up thy Mind here, and I will show it thee. Behold, what does comprehend thy Will,...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (71)
For when thou, in thy body, liftest thyself against anything whatsoever, be it in love or wrath, thou kindlest the quality of that against which thou ...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 41: That in all other works beneath this, men should keep discretion; but in this none (2)
I say not that thou shalt continue ever therein alike fresh, for that may not be. For sometime sickness and other unordained dispositions in body and...
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. (79)
The flattering and lying Devil (who has possessed thy fleshly Heart) shall feel these 1 strokes (which he will not like) and then he Earnest Zeal of R...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (78)
While it is but glimmering it is only a gentle, soft, longing delight or pleasing lust in thee, and does not consume thee; but if thou exhaltest thy...
Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XXXII. (9)
But the precept which is next to this in efficacy is that which exhorts to be beyond measure studious of purifying the intellect, and by various metho...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (81)
But thou must know, that thou, in the government of thy mind, art thine own lord and master, there will rise up no fire to thee in the circle or whole...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (90)
But if the spirit breaketh out of prison, then put it in again, make good thy part against it as long as thou livest, and if thou gettest so much adva...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (75)
Hearken, thou hast the sweet water in thee, pour that into the fire, and then the fire goeth out: If thou lettest it burn, then it consumeth in thee...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (40)
Now if thou hast lived well and holily in this world, according to the law of nature, and hast not extinguished the clear flash, which is the Son of...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (30)
Also the power of the kindled body, in the outgone power without and beyond the fire, qualifieth, mixeth or uniteth gently, pleasantly, and very...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (64)
Continuing: "Philosophers say there is no true solution of the body without a proceeding coagulation of the spirit, for they are interchangeably...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (21)
When mind becomes a daimon, the law requires that it should take a fiery body to execute the services of God; and entering in the soul most impious...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (125)
If the eyes of thy spirit are to stand open, then thou must generate thus, else thy comprehensibility is a foolish virgin, and it befalls thee, as if...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (18)
When then the mind doth free itself from the earth-body, it straightway putteth on its proper robe of fire, with which it could not dwell in an...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (70)
If thou stirrest or awakest the spirit in the fire, then there riseth up in thee the bitter and harsh anger; for as soon as the fire is kindled,...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (20)
If you mix yourself, you will acquire the three parts as you fall from virtue into inferiority. Live according to the Mind. Do not think about things...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (27)
Beloved Mind, if thou hast a Desire to this Way, and wouldst attain it, and the noble Virgin in the Tree of Pearl, then thou must use great...
Dhammapada
Chapter XVII: Anger (231)
Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body! Leave the sins of the body, and with thy body practise virtue!
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 61: That all bodily thing is subject unto ghostly thing, and is ruled thereafter by the course of nature, and not contrariwise (3)
This same subjection of the body to the spirit may be in manner verily conceived in the proof of this ghostly work of this book, by them that work...
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