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Dhammapada
Chapter XIII: The World (174)
This world is dark, few only can see here; a few only go to heaven, like birds escaped from the net.
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. (27)
There is nothing that is nearer you than Heaven, Paradise, and Hell, unto which of them you are inclined, and to which of them you rend [or walk,] to...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 19: Of the Entering of the Souls to God, and of the wicked Souls Entering into Perdition. Of the Gate of the Body's Breaking off [or Parting] from the Soul. (24)
For such a Soul there is no [Remedy or] Counsel, it cannot come into the Light of God; and although St. Peter had left many thousand Keys upon Earth, ...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (81-90)
He learned birds' language from "what we were taught." But thou art only a bird of the air; understand then That thou hast never seen the true...
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. (7)
And none can come therein but by a new Birth; which Christ spoke of to Nicodemus. The Souls of the Saints and Regenerate must enter into it by the Dea...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (116)
The Light hating World, and the winding currents by which many are drawn down.
Bhagavad Gita
Akṣhara Parabrahma Yoga (8.26)
These bright and dark Paths of the world are verily deemed eternal; by the one a man goes to return not, by the other he returns again.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (46)
The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe ...
The Masnavi
The Elephant in a Dark Room (22-31)
When you pluck up your foot you escape from the mire, When you obtain salvation at God's hands, O wanderer, You are free from the mire, and go your...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (100)
Yet thou must not therefore think, that the heavenly Light in this World, in the qualifying or fountain Spirits of God, is quite extinct: No; there is...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.11)
Joyless are those worlds called/ Covered with blind darkness. To them after death go those People that have not knowledge, that are not awakened:
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (73)
Now when the Heaven was made for a Distinction, or Partition between the Light of God and the kindled Corruption of the Body of this World, then was...
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...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (60)
The Gate of the Deity, in the upper Heaven, is no other, also no brighter than it is in this World: And where can there be greater Joy than in that...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CVIII (14)
And they shall see those who were, born in darkness led into darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XVI. The Sermon on the Mount (concluded): Judge Not, Pearls Before Swine, Prayer, the Golden Rule, the Strait Gate, "I Never Knew You," Rock Foundation (8)
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (24)
This the World comprehends not, but scorns it, therefore I will here no further cast the Pearl before the Swine, for there belongs another Light to...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (7)
Some Sufis have had the unseen world of heaven and hell revealed to them when in a state of death-like trance. On their recovering consciousness...
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (20-28)
His blind soul wanders in every direction, And at last makes a spring, but springs not upwards. A man captured a bird by wiles and snares; The bird sa...
Chaldean Oracles
Magical and Philosophical Precepts (145)
Stoop not down unto the Darkly-Splendid World; wherein continually lieth a faithless Depth, and Hades wrapped in clouds, delighting in unintellible...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (1)
As regards the joys of heaven and the pains of hell which will follow this life, all believers in the Koran and the Traditions are sufficiently...
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