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Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (196)
If thou often invokest thou shalt see all things growing dark; and then when no longer is visible unto thee the High-arched Vault of Heaven, when the Stars have lost their Light and the Lamp of the Moon is veiled, the Earth abideth not, and around thee darts the Lightning Flame and all things appear amid thunders.
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (132)
For when thy Light is extinguished, then thou standest in the Darkness, and in the Darkness the Wrath of God is hidden, and if thou awakenest it, then...
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...
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 (9)
For such a darkness and such a cloud mayest thou imagine with curiosity of wit, for to bear before thine eyes in the lightest day of summer: and also ...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 3: How the work of this book shall be wrought, and of the worthiness of it before all other works (3)
For if ever thou shalt feel Him or see Him, as it may be here, it behoveth always to be in this cloud in this darkness. And if thou wilt busily travai...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (32)
For thou seest that often the whole Deep is very clear and pure, and in a Quarter of an Hour is covered with watery Clouds: that is, when the Stars fr...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (101)
But if God did but once put away that Duskishness, which moves about the Light, and that thy Eyes were opened, then in that very Place where thou stan...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (4)
E'en with these words His aspect changed, and straightway, in the twinkling of an eye, all things were opened to me, and I see a Vision limitless,...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (19)
Now when thou beholdest the Stars, and the Deep, together with the Earth, then thou seest with thy bodily Eyes nothing else but the old Body in the...
Mundaka Upanishad
Second Mundaka, Second Khanda (10)
The sun does not thine there, nor the moon and the stars, nor these lightnings, and much less this fire. When he shines, everything shines after him;...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (48)
Thou seest in this World nothing but the Deep, and therein the Stars, and the Birth or Geniture of the Elements: Now wilt thou say, God is not there?...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 7: How a man shall have him in this work against all thoughts, and specially against all those that arise of his own curiosity, of cunning, and of natural wit (1)
AND if any thought rise and will press continually above thee betwixt thee and that darkness, and ask thee saying, “What seekest thou, and what woulde...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (102)
Thou know st Him not. Now He appears as fire, Dread force; as water now; and now as gloom; And in the beasts is dimly shadowed forth, In wind, and...
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 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (100)
Yet thou must not therefore think, that the heavenly Light in this World, in the qualifying or fountain Spirits of God, is quite extinct: No; there is...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (3)
Who is the One who watcheth o'er that order? For every order hath its boundaries marked out by place and number. The sun's the greatest god of gods in...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (145)
For when the Flash rises up in the Center, one sees through and through, but cannot well apprehend or lay hold on it; for it happens to such a one as ...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (1)
HERE thou shouldst open thy Eyes wide, for thou wilt see the hidden secret Things, which have been kept hidden from all Men since the World began....
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...
Katha Upanishad
Fifth Vallī (15)
When he shines, everything shines after him; by his light all this is lighted.'...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (22)
By invigorating the Organs the Soul makes use of for communicating with exterior objects, the Soul must acquire greater powers not only for conception...
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