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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,...
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...
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. (71)
For when thou elevatest thyself in thy Body towards or against any Thing, be it in Love or in Anger, that which thou liftest up thyself towards or aga...
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 C...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (39)
If thou holdest on in thy Earnestness; and wilt not give over, then will this Fire come suddenly upon thee, like Lightening, and shine into thee, and...
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 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 it goes out: If thou lettest it burn, then it consumes in thee the Sap,...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (40)
Now if thou hast lived well and holily in the Law of Nature, in this World, and hast not extinguished the clear Flash, which is the Son of God, which...
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. (78)
And whilst it is but glimmering, it is only a gentle soft longing Delight, or pleasing Lust in thee, and does not consume thee; but if thy Heart be in...
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...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 46: A good teaching how a man shall flee these deceits, and work more with a listiness of spirit, than with any boisterousness of body (1)
For ever the more Mistily, the more meekly and ghostly: and ever the more rudely, the more bodily and beastly. And therefore be wary, for surely what ...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (38)
Think that your body is the garment of your soul; and therefore preserve it pure. Impure dæmons vindicate to themselves the impure soul.
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. (42)
O thou blind Mind, with thy Might and Stateliness, full of Wickedness and devilish fierce Wrath, [wilt thou know where thou art after that thy Body...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (90)
But if the Spirit breaks 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 Advant...
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 rises up in thee the bitter and harsh Anger; for as soon as the Fire is kindled, which...
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