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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (326b)
A godly heart produces a blessed life.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self - Restraint. (17)
And he who possesses such a heart is so blessed, that "he shall see God."
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XIV. The Sermon on the Mount: the Beatitudes, Admonitions, Precepts (7)
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: Some Points in the Beatitudes. (5)
It is therefore necessary to learn how to make use of every occurrence, so as by a good life, according to knowledge, to be trained for the state of e...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (56)
If thou wilt dissemble with God, and adorn or magnify thy birth, then I suppose thee to be a very fine angel indeed! He that has love in his heart,...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 49: The substance of all perfection is nought else but a good will; and how that all sounds and comforts and sweetness that may befall in this life be to it but as it were accidents (1)
It is the substance of all good living, and without it no good work may be begun nor ended. It is nought else but a good and an according will unto Go...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (153)
If you lay hold on the Heart of God, then you have ground enough.
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (35)
Thus also is the heart or light of God always generated in the body of this world, and that generated heart is one heart with the eternal,...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (49)
The wise man is governed by God, and on this account is blessed. A scientific knowledge of God causes a man to use few words.
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (97)
Thus there is one Heart of God, and not seven, which is always generated from all the seven, and is the heart and life of all the seven.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXI. The Sermon in the Plain (concluded)—more Parables—"why Call Ye Me, Lord, Lord?"—rock Foundation (5)
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (37)
The light or the heart of God taketh not its original barely from the wild rough stars, where, indeed, love and wrath are in each other, but out of...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXI (7)
Let thy heart be strong, For the good shall announce righteousness to the good; The righteous with the righteous shall rejoice, And shall offer...
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. (13)
This [Image] is not the Heart of God, but it reaches into the Heart of God, and it receives Virtue, Light and Joy from the Heart and Light of God....
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (18)
Do not bring grief and trouble to the divine which is within you. But when you will care for it, will request of it that you remain pure, and will...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Love of God (22)
But (and may God preserve us from such a doom!) if in a man's heart there has been growing up a love of what is opposed to God, the conditions of the ...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (26)
Be persuaded that the end of life, is to live conformably to divinity. Depraved affections are the beginnings of sorrows.
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (121)
The love of God have mercy, and take pity on it!
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXIV (27)
Blessed are they who see the Bourne: beautiful is the god of the motionless heart who causeth the stay of the Overflowing
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (2)
Such an one is persuaded that God is ever beside him, and does not suppose that He is confined in certain limited places; so that under the idea that ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Degrees of Glory in Heaven. (13)
But such a good conscience preserves sanctity towards God and justice towards men; keeping the soul pure with grave thoughts, and pure. words, and jus...
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