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Passages similar to: Chaldean Oracles — Magical and Philosophical Precepts
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Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (184)
Not knowing that every God is good, ye are fruitlessly vigilant.
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (394/395)
Know who God is, and know who is the one who thinks in you; a good man is the good work of God.
Allogenes the Stranger
Parallel with the Apocryphon of John (BG ,6-25,7 = II ,17-33) (12)
He will not be judged by that One, who is neither concerned for anything nor has any desire, but he is (judged) through himself because he has not fou...
Allogenes the Stranger
The Powers of the Luminaries: A. Ascent through the Triple Powered One (5)
Do not know him, for it is impossible; but if by means of an enlightened thought you should know him, stay incognizant of him!"
Eugnostos the Blessed
Eugnostos the Blessed (2)
Rejoice in this, that you know. Greetings! I want you to know that all men born from the foundation of the world until now are dust. While they have...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (4)
For ye (are) confusing our thoughts , whereby men, giving forth the worst deeds, will speak , as of the Demon-gods beloved, forsaken by the Good Mind ...
Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (369)
It is not possible for you to know God when you do not worship him.
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Sanyāsa Yoga (5.15)
The Lord does not receive either the evil or good of anyone. Knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, and by it, beings are deluded.
Corpus Hermeticum
11. Mind Unto Hermes (21)
For thou canst know naught of things beautiful and good so long as thou dost love thy body and art bad. The greatest bad there is, is not to know God'...
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (23)
Wherefore nor nor time, surroundeth God; for He is All, and All surroundeth all, and permeateth all. Unto this Reason (Logos), son, thy adoration and ...
Corpus Hermeticum
9. On Thought and Sense (4)
The seeds of God, 'tis true, are few, but vast and fair, and good - virtue and self-control, devotion. Devotion is God-gnosis; and he who knoweth...
Corpus Hermeticum
2. To Asclepius (15)
Call thou not, therefore, aught else Good, for thou would'st imious be; nor anything at all at any time call God but Good alone, for so thou would'st ...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (4)
Therefore the Koran says, "He who is blind in this life will be blind in the next life, and astray from the path."
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (79)
He knows all things before they happen, and he knows the hidden things of the heart. They are all revealed and found wanting in his presence. Let no o...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (41)
He does not know God who does not worship him. The man who is worthy of God is also a God among men.
Corpus Hermeticum
2. To Asclepius (16)
Though, then, the Good is spoken of by all, it is not understood by all, what thing it is. Not only, then, is God not understood by all, but both...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (74)
If any mortal thinks, that day by day, While doing ill, he eludes the gods keen sight, His thoughts are evil; and when justice has The leisure, he...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 40: That in the time of this work a soul hath no special beholding to any vice in itself nor to any virtue in itself (3)
On the same manner shalt thou do with this little word “God.” Fill thy spirit with the ghostly bemeaning of it without any special beholding to any...
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (71-80)
Suppose he wears the semblance of one clad in mail, The God-intoxicated are not sobered by old age, The wine of God is true, and not false, Thou...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (4)
Behold! thou unapprehensive man, I will shew thee the true ground of the Deity. If this whole or universal being be not God, then thou art not God's...
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (42)
All men who are aware of their ignorance tuck up the flap of their garment and say earnestly: 'O thou who art not seen although thou makest us to...
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