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(106) For thou canst not nominate any Place, either in Heaven or in this World, wherein the Divine Birth or Geniture is not thus, be it in an Angel, or holy Man, or any where else.

(18) Thus has wisdom, more secret than all that is secret, been declared to thee by Me; reflect. thou over it all and act as thou pleasest.

(33) For thou must know that all things bow before the Three Supernals.

(20) Behold what power, what swiftness, thou dost have! And canst thou do all of these things, and God not [do them]? Then, in this way know God; as having all things in Himself as thoughts, the whole Cosmos itself. If, then, thou dost not make thyself like unto God, thou canst not know Him. For like is knowable unto like [alone]. Make, [then,] thyself to grow to the same stature as the Greatness which transcends all measure; leap forth from every body; transcend all time; become Eternity ; and [thus] shalt thou know God. Conceiving nothing is impossible unto thyself, think thyself deathless and able to know all - all arts, all sciences, the way of every life. Become more lofty than all height, and lower than all depth. Collect into thyself all senses of [all] creatures - of fire, [and] water, dry and moist. Think that thou art at the same time in every place - in earth, in sea, in sky; not yet begotten, in the womb, young, old, [and] dead, in after-death conditions. And if thou knowest all these things at once - times, places, doings, qualities, and quantities; thou canst know God.

(124) But if thou art thus, then raise up thy Spirit, and look through thy Art of Astrology, thy deep Sense, and Measuring of Circles, and see if thou art able to apprehend it? It must be born IN THEE, else thou gettest neither Grace nor Art.

(5) Aye, do Thou tell me that I may discern it, since through (Thy) Righteous Order the better (lot) is given; tell me this that I may know it with (Thy) Good Mind (as it speaks within me), and that I may ponder that to which these my truths belong (and of which my prophet speaks; yea), tell me those things, O Mazda Ahura! which may not be, and which may be .

(10) Thou shouldst indeed tell, without reserve, of Thy divine Glories, by which Glories Thou remainest pervading all these worlds.

(9) And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'

(24) 'If you can think of any boon equal to that, choose wealth, and long life. Be (king), Nakiketas, on the wide earth. I make thee the enjoyer of all desires.'

(45) now seeing thou hast thy Reason, and art not like the Apple on the Tree, but art created an Angel and the Similitude or Image of God, instead of the expelled Devils, and knowest how thou canst with thy astral Birth, in the Part of Love, qualify or unite with the Word of God, therefore thou canst in the Center in the Word, set or put thy animated or soulish Birth into Heaven, and thou canst, with thy Soul, even with thy living Body in this dead or mortal Palpability, rule with God in Heaven.

(51) In like manner He will give you thousands of existences, One after another, the succeeding ones better than the former. Regard your original state, not the mean states, As these mean states increase, union recedes; As they decrease, the unction of union increases. From knowing means and causes holy bewilderment fails; Yea, the bewilderment that leads you to God's presence. You have obtained these existences after annihilations; Wherefore, then, do you shrink from annihilation? What harm have these annihilations done you

(4) Knowing which, thou shalt not again thus fall into error, O Pandava; and by which, thou wilt see all beings in thy Self and also in Me.

(19) And, thus, think from thyself, and bid thy soul go unto any land, and there more quickly than thy bidding will it be. 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 also mount to heaven; and it will need no wings, not will aught hinder it, nor fire of sun, nor auther, nor vortex-swirl, nor bodies of the other stars; but, cutting through them all, it will soar up to the last Body [of them all]. And shouldst thou will to break through this as well, and contemplate what is beyond - if there be aught beyond the Cosmos; it is permitted thee.

(9) (Aye, when shall faith be changed to sight ); and when shall I in verity discern if Ye indeed have power over aught, O Lord! and through Thy Righteous Order (guarding here on earth), O Thou within whose (power lie) my griefs and doubts? Let then Thy saving prophet find and gain aright (for) my delight Thy Good Mind's wonder-working grace ; yea, let Thy Saoshyant see how gifts of recompense may be his own.

(10) Thou knowest [now], my son, the manner of Rebirth. And when the Ten is come, my son, that driveth out the Twelve, the Birth in understanding is complete, and by this birth we are made into Gods. Who then doth by His mercy gain this Birth in God, abandoning the body's senses, knows himself [to be of Light and Life] and that he doth consist of these, and [thus] is filled with bliss.

(96) Therefore observe exactly, and take Notice of the Order of this Book, and then thou wilt find, whatsoever thy Heart desires, or ever longed for.