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Sentences of Sextus
Sentences of Sextus (363a)
You conceive the body of a god-loving man, but you will not be able to rule over his speech.
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (58)
O no, thou thyself art faulty, the qualifying or fountain spirits in thy body, which thou thyself art, have generated thee such a little son: Thou...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (97)
Thou must not think that perhaps in heaven there is some manner of body which only is thus generated, which above all other things is called God.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (45)
Now, since 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...
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...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (82)
But seeing man's body is its proper own, and is a son of the whole body of God, therefore it generateth also a proper seed of its own, according to th...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (24)
For oftentimes the mind doth leave the soul, and at that time the soul neither sees nor understands, but is just like a thing that hath no reason. Suc...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (122)
O man, thou wast not, by the Word, created together with and as the beasts, from good and evil; and if thou hadst not eaten of good and evil, then...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (82)
Now if you will be gods, and not devils, then make use of the holy and meek law of God; if not, then you shall for ever eternally generate in the...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (20)
If you mix yourself, you will acquire the three parts as you fall from virtue into inferiority. Live according to the Mind. Do not think about things...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (20)
You should not ask of divinity that which, when you have obtained, you will not perpetually possess. Accustom your soul after [it has conceived all...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (176)
If thou extendeth the Fiery Mind to the work of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body.
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (105)
Indeed man's word conceiveth itself just in such a form, manner, proportion, quality and correspondency; only the half-dead man does not understand...
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (12)
Tat: Most clearly hast thou, father mine, set forth the teaching (logos). Hermes: Consider this as well, my son; that these two things God hath...
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (10)
You will not be concealed from divinity when you act unjustly, nor even when you think of acting so. The foundation of piety is continence; but the...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (18)
Thou canst not better comprehend, apprehend or understand this, than in and by thy own body, which, through the first fall of Adam with all its [the...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (5)
Yea, he has ruled you, (ye) who are of the Demon-gods, and with an evil word unto action, as his ruler (governs) the wicked !
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 ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 9: Of the Paradise, and then of the Transitoriness of all Creatures; how all take their Beginning and End; and to what End they here appeared. The Noble and most precious Gate [or Explanation] concerning the reasonable Soul. (35)
Behold, thou reasonable Soul, to thee I speak, and not to the Body, thou only apprehendest it:- When the Birth is thus continually generated, then...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (104)
Thou shouldst not think that God at that time did speak in that way as men do, and that it is but a weak, impotent word, like man's word.
Corpus Hermeticum
13. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain (14)
Tat: Tell me, O father: This Body which is made up of the Powers, is it at any time dissolved? Hermes: Hush, [son]! Speak not of things impossible,...
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