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Passages similar to: Dhammapada — Chapter IX: Evil
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Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (128)
Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not if we enter into the clefts of the mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where death could not overcome (the mortal).
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (12)
Nakiketas said: 'In the heaven-world there is no fear; thou art not there, O Death, and no one is afraid on account of old age. Leaving behind both...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (1.3.10)
Verily, that divinity having struck off the evil of these divinities, even death, made this go to where is the end of the quarters of heaven. There...
Asclepius
Section XXVIII (2)
’Twixt Heaven and Earth, upon the waves of Cosmos, is it dragged in contrary directions, for ever racked with ceaseless pains ; so that in this its...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (25)
And greater thing than all; without e'en quitting earth, he doth ascend above. So vast a sweep doth he possess of ecstasy. For this cause can a man da...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (4)
And now if we look round about us every where, upon Heaven and Earth, the Stars and Elements, yet we can see and know no Way [or Passage] where we may...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (30)
And there is set no limit, no, not one, For mortals of their course to make an end, Except when Death's remorseless final end Comes, sent from Zeus,"-...
Katha Upanishad
Fifth Vallī (5)
'No mortal lives by the breath that goes up and by the breath that goes down. We live by another, in whom these two repose.'
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (LXXXVI - Death)
The FUMIGATION from MANNA. HEAR me, O Death, whose empire unconfin'd, Extends to mortal tribes of ev'ry kind. On thee, the portion of our time...
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. (61)
And here now was no Remedy, neither in Heaven, nor in this World, they were captivated in hard Slavery, in Misery and Death; the Abyss of Hell held th...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: The Blessedness of the Martyr. (17)
No mortal exists who has not toil; He buries children, and begets others, And he himself dies, And thus mortals are afflicted."
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (28-29)
'What mortal, slowly decaying here below, and knowing, after having approached them, the freedom from decay enjoyed by the immortals, would delight...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter III (23)
Again he puts the same idea in these words: "No mortal is content and happy Nor is any born free from sorrow." And then again: " Alas, alas, how many...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.14)
Verily, while we are here we may know this. If you have known it not, great is the destruction. Those who know this become immortal, But others go...
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. (39)
And if we do not come to know [or have a Glimpse of] the Treader upon the Serpent in the Mark of the Partition, [or Limit of Separation,] in the Gate ...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (34)
And therefore in our outermost Birth or Geniture we cannot see the Angels, neither can the Angels dwell with us in the outermost Birth of this World, ...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Premonitory Visions of the Place of Rebirth (36.8)
If to be born amongst beasts, rock-caverns and deep holes in the earth and mists will appear. Enter not therein.
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (15)
Though deathless and possessed of sway o'er all, yet doth he suffer as a mortal doth, subject to Fate. Thus though above the Harmony, within the Harmo...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet X (16)
You have toiled without cease, and what have you got! Through toil you wear yourself out, you fill your body with grief, your long lifetime you are bringing near (to a premature end)!…
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (169)
Things Divine are not attainable by mortals who understand the body alone, but only by those who stripped of their garments arrive at the summit.
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