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Dhammapada
Chapter XI: Old Age (146)
How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? Why do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness?
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (34)
How should Love and Joy not be there, where Life is generated in the very Center or Midst of Death, and Light in the Midst of Darkness? Question....
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (28)
Whereon I say: Ye earth-born folk, why have ye given yourselves up to Death, while yet ye have the power of sharing Deathlessness? Repent, O ye, who w...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (15)
As is mentioned before, the eternal Mind stands thus lin the Darkness, and vexes itself, and longs after the Light, to generate that; and the Anguish...
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter III: The Objects of Faith and Hope Perceived By the Mind Alone. (5)
"Then you don't think that I have sought?" "Yes, if you think you do not know." So with the lamps of the wise virgins, lighted at night in the great...
The Masnavi
Moses and the Shepherd (51-60)
Why hast Thou kindled the fire of violence and wrong? Why burnt up mosques and them who worship therein? Paradise is attached to requirements...
Gospel of Thomas
Sayings (24)
His disciples said to Him, "Show us the place where You are, since it is necessary for us to seek it." He said to them, "Whoever has ears, let him...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (116)
The Light hating World, and the winding currents by which many are drawn down.
The Masnavi
The Pauper and the Prisoners (45-54)
How can constancy fail while form abides? But the truth is, the sun's beams strike the wall, Why give your heart to mere stones, O simpleton? Go!...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (39)
Hearken; if it does not become me to ask, then it does not become thee to judge me. Dost thou boast in the Knowledge of the Light, and art a Leader...
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 125 (Their entreaties at the gates of Light)
And I will answer unto them: I know you not, whence ye are. And they will say unto me: We have received of thy mysteries and fulfilled thy whole teach...
Corpus Hermeticum
7. The Greatest Ill Among Men Is Ignorance of God (2)
Be ye then not carried off by the fierce flood, but using the shore-current , ye who can, make for Salvation's port, and, harboring there, seek ye...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Second Day (5.6-5.9)
Be not fond of the dull, smoke-coloured light from Hell. That is the path which openeth out to receive thee because of the power of accumulated evil...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.4)
But when the sun has set, and the moon has set, what light does a person here have? ' ' Fire, indeed, is his light/ said he, c for with fire, indeed, ...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 44 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (13)
This I ask Thee, O Ahura! tell me aright, how shall I banish this Demon-of-the-Lie from us hence to those beneath who are filled with rebellion? The...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXX. Greeks Desire to See Jesus—he Foresees His Death: "now Is My Soul Troubled"—faith Exalted, Prayer Extolled—"i Am Come a Light Into the World.... to Save the World" (15)
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe ...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.5)
Therefore, verily, O king, where one does not discern even his own hands, when a voice is raised, then one goes straight towards it.' ' Quite so, Yajn...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXIII (5)
Truly from this time forward shall my words Be naked, so far as it is befitting To lay them open unto thy rude gaze." And more coruscant and with slow...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (179)
O gracious, amiable, blessed Love and clear bright Light, tarry with us, I pray thee, for the Evening is at Hand. O Truth! O Justice and righteous...
The Masnavi
'Ali's Forbearance (31-40)
Is not the 'water of life' in the darkness? Are not spirits refreshed in that very darkness? Is not that silence the season of heavenly voices? For...
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