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Dhammapada
Chapter XXII: The Downward Course (306)
He who says what is not, goes to hell; he also who, having done a thing, says I have not done it. After death both are equal, they are men with evil deeds in the next world.
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 46 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (6)
(And he who leaves him in his guilty error has my curse.) Yea, he who has the power , and will not thus (with stern reproof ) approach him, shall go...
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. (22)
As also all Words (both the evil and the good) which were here spoken by a human Tongue, they continue standing in the Shadow and figured Similitude,...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (15)
Then he that will not take heed and beware of his Lies, whilst he may very well do it, there is no Remedy for him neither here nor hereafter: He that...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter IV (5)
And on this account it is written on the heavenly tables, " Cursed is he who smiteth his neighbour treacherously, and let all who have seen and heard ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (43)
Homer again, having written: "I say no mortal man can doom escape,"- Archinus says, "All men are bound to die either sooner or later;" and...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (73)
There is an eye of justice, which sees all. For two ways, as we deem, to Hades lead- One for the good, the other for the bad. But if the earth hides...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XVII (17.2)
But if any now will excuse himself for sin, by refusing to take what is evil unto himself, and laying the guilt thereof upon the Evil Spirit, and thus...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (14)
We have seen above that one kind of spiritual hell is the forcible separation from worldly things to which the heart cleaves too fondly. Many carry...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Judgement (25.4)
Then the Lord of Death will say, ' I will consult the Mirror of Karma'. So saying, he will look in the Mirror, wherein every good and evil act is...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (11)
Every sinner thus carries with him into the world beyond death the instruments of his own punishment; and the Koran says truly, "Verily you shall see...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 31 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (20)
Long life shall be his lot in the darkness; foul shall be his food; his speech shall be of the lowest . And this, which is such a life as your own, O ...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXX (11)
In that assembly whatever righteous man was friend of a wicked one in the world, and the wicked man complains of him who is righteous, thus: 'Why did...
The Masnavi
Mahmud and Ayaz (continued) (134-143)
The former is borne to Paradise, the latter to hell. The Prophet says, "Paradise is annexed to tribulation, But hell-fire follows indulgence in...
The Masnavi
The Visions seen by the Saint Daquqi (71-80)
Criminals and sinners, even in the course of sinning, Their sins are veiled among the heart's secrets, Yet the criminal himself exposes them to view,...
Asclepius
Section XXVIII (3)
[Asclepius] The faults of men are not, then, punished, O Thrice-greatest one, by law of man alone? [Trismegistus] In the first place, Asclepius, all...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of the Next World (15)
This species of hell (i.e., of shame) may be symbolised by the following short parable: Suppose a certain king has been celebrating his son's...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 16 (1)
'My child, they bring a man hither whom they have taken by the hand, and they say: "He has taken something, he has committed a theft." (When he...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXI (4)
And after that I said: 'Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness, Concerning whom there is no book of unrighteousness written, And ag...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (75)
If one, by nature evil, evil does, Let him redeem the time; for such as he Shall by and by due punishment receive."
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (74)
If any mortal thinks, that day by day, While doing ill, he eludes the gods keen sight, His thoughts are evil; and when justice has The leisure, he...
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