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Love Of Neighbour
Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love.
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◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAINm
““Go with this,” said she, “and take with thee yonder horse and clothing, and place them near the man we saw just now.
And anoint him with this balsam, near his heart; and if there is life in him, he will arise through the efficacy of this…”
◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAINn
“And when they came near to the Earl’s army, they could see neither its extent nor its extremity.
And Owain asked the pages in which troop the Earl was.
“In yonder troop,” said they, “in which are four yellow standards.
Two of them are be…”
◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAINo
“And I told them that they two were not a match for him alone.
So they imprisoned me in the stone vault, and said that I should be put to death, unless he came himself to deliver me, by a certain day; and that is no further off than the day…”
◆The Mabinogion | Tale THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAINq
“And we were thrown into a state of stupor, and while we were thus, the demon who owns this Castle slew all our husbands, and took from us our horses, and our raiment, and our gold, and our silver; and the corpses of our husbands are still i…”
◆The Mabinogion | Tale PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWCi
““My sister,” said Peredur, “I will share out the food and the liquor.” “Not so, my soul,” said she.
“By my faith but I will.” So Peredur took the bread, and he gave an equal portion of it to each alike, as well as a cup full of the liquor.…”
◆The Mabinogion | Tale PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWCj
“And there was a knight riding proudly along the meadow, having raised the signal for battle.
And they encountered, and Peredur threw the knight over his horse’s crupper to the ground.
And at the close of the day, one of the chief knights…”
◆The Mabinogion | Tale PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWCk
““Behold,” said he, “I am the knight through whom thou art in trouble, and he shall repent it, who has treated thee thus.” Thereupon, behold a knight rode up, and he inquired of Peredur, if he had seen a knight such as he was seeking.
“Hold…”
◆The Mabinogion | Tale PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWCo
“And Peredur and the maiden were placed together, and the two young pages served them.
And the maiden gazed sorrowfully upon Peredur, and Peredur asked the maiden wherefore she was sad.
“For thee, my soul; for, from when I first beheld the…”
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◆The Kalevala | Rune VIb
“Neither clouds on the horizon, Nor the dawning of the morning; It is ancient Wainamoinen, The renowned and wise enchanter, Riding on his way to Northland; On his steed, the royal racer, Magic courser of Wainola." Quickly now young Youkahain…”
◆The Kalevala | Rune VIIc
“Thereupon she hastens homeward, Hastens to her mother's dwelling, These the words the maiden utters: "I have heard a wail from ocean, Heard a weeping from the sea-coast, On the shore some one lamenting." Louhi, hostess of Pohyola, Ancient,…”
◆The Kalevala | Rune IXb
“"Then the blacksmith, Ilmarinen, Came to earth to work the metal; He was born upon the Coal-mount, Skilled and nurtured in the coal-fields; In one hand, a copper hammer, In the other, tongs of iron; In the night was born the blacksmith, In…”
◆The Kalevala | Rune XVb
“"Hostess of Pohyola, tell me Whither thou hast sent my hero; I shall burst thy many garners, Shall destroy the magic Sampo, If thou dost not tell me truly Where to find my Lemminkainen." Spake the hostess of Pohyola: "I have well thy hero t…”
◆The Kalevala | Rune XVIe
“In Manala lived a woman, In the kingdom of Tuoni, Evil witch and toothless wizard, Spinner of the threads of iron, Moulder of the bands of copper, Weaver of a hundred fish-nets, Of a thousand nets of copper, Spinning in the days of summer,…”
◆The Kalevala | Rune XXh
“Stronger grew the beer imprisoned In the copper-banded vessels, Locked behind the copper faucets, Boiled, and foamed, and sang, and murmured: "If ye do not bring a singer, That will sing my worth immortal, That will sing my praise deserving…”
◆The Kalevala | Rune XXIa
“'S WEDDING-FEAST.
Louhi, hostess of the Northland, Ancient dame of Sariola, While at work within her dwelling, Heard the whips crack on the fenlands, Heard the rattle of the sledges; To the northward turned her glances, Turned her vision t…”
◆The Kalevala | Rune XXIe
“Spake again wise Wainamoinen, When his wonder-tales had ended: "l have little worth or power, Am a bard of little value, Little consequence my singing, Mine abilities as nothing, If but Ukko, my Creator, Should intone his wisdom-sayings, Si…”
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◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Fraternity of the Rose Crossc
“The double-headed eagle, or Phœnix, subtly foreshadows the ultimate androgynous state of the human creature.
Rosicrucian alchemy was not concerned with metals alone.
Man's own body was the alchemical laboratory, and none could reach Rosic…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Alchemy and Its Exponentse
“Again and again his bones were dug up and reinterred in another place.
The slab of marble over his grave bears the following inscription: " Here lies buried Philip Theophrastus the famous Doctor of Medicine who cured Wounds, Leprosy, Gout,…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Theory and Practice of Alchemys
“That thou seek to advance the honor of thy Creator of all things and the good of thy neighbor, preserve it sacredly that thy Lord may not have cause to complain of thee at the last day.
I have written here in this treatise such a part of t…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Theory and Practice of Alchemyv
“Then put this dissolution as before into a round Glass, fill it two thirds parts full, seal it hermetically as before, let your Sigillum be well dried.
Set it in the furnace of Balneum Vapori, make a fire and let it remain forty days, as b…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Chemical Marriagej
“The newly created Knights of the Golden Stone were obliged to subscribe to five articles drawn up by His Royal Highness: (1) That they would ascribe their Order only to God and His handmaid, Nature.
(2) That they should abominate all uncle…”
◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XIX (part 1)
“p.
232 CHAPTER XIX The intellectual method, objective knowledge.
The limits of objective knowledge.
The possibility of the expansion of the application of the psychological method.
New forms of knowledge.
The ideas of Plotinus.
Differ…”
◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter XXIII (part 7)
“It was in the early spring, at the beginning of his thirty-sixth year.
He and two friends had spent the evening reading Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Browning, and especially Whitman.
They parted at midnight and he had a long drive in a han…”
◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 8. Realizationd
“Had not Urban Grandier been immolated, one of two things would have occurred: either the possessed nuns would have died in frightful convulsions or the phenomena of diabolical frenzy would have so gained in strength and influence, epidemica…”
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◆The Dhammapada | Chapter X, Section 1a
“p.
36 CHAPTER X.
PUNISHMENT.
129.
All men tremble at punishment, all men fear death; remember that you are like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter.
130.
All men tremble at punishment, all men love life; remember that thou…”
◆The Dhammapada | Chapter X, Section 1b
“He who inflicts pain on innocent and harmless persons, will soon come to one of these ten states: [133.
See Mahâbhârata XII, 4056.
134.
See Childers, s.v.
nibbâna, p.
270, and s.v.
kâ m so; D'Alwis, Buddhist Nirvâ n a, p.
35.
136.…”
◆The Dhammapada | Chapter XV, Section 1a
“p.
53 CHAPTER XV.
HAPPINESS.
197.
Let us live happily then, not hating those who hate us!
among men who hate us let us dwell free from hatred!
198.
Let us live happily then, free from ailments among the ailing!
among men who are ail…”
◆The Dhammapada | Chapter XV, Section 1b
“loss at game, a losing throw, and occurs in that sense again in verse 252 .
The Chinese translation has, 'there is no distress (poison) worse than hate.' A similar verse occurs Mahâbh.
S ântip.
175, v.
35.
'Body' for khandha is a free…”
◆The Dhammapada | Chapter XIX, Section 1b
“(See Lassen, Indische Alterthumskunde, II, 700.) The Chinese Shamen and the Tungusian Shamen come from the same source, though the latter has sometimes been doubted.
See Schott, Über die doppelte Bedeutung des Wortes Schamane, in the Philo…”
◆The Dhammapada | Chapter XXI, Section 1b
“Beal in his translation of the Dhammapada, Introduction, p.
5.
Here a stanza is quoted as having been recited by Buddha, in explanation of a similar startling utterance which he had made to Mahâmati: 'Lust, or carnal desire, this is the M…”
◆The Dhammapada | Chapter XXVI, Section 1c
“405.
Him I call indeed a Brâhma n a who finds no fault with other beings, whether feeble or strong, and does not kill nor cause slaughter.
406.
Him I call indeed a Brâhma n a who is tolerant with the intolerant, mild with fault-finders,…”
◆Vajrakkhedika (Diamond Cutter) | Section 1b
“observes that pa kkh abhatta m pi nd apâtapa t ikkânto is a {Greek ú!oteron próteron }, as it means, having returned from his rounds, and then made his meal on the food obtained on his rounds.
4.
Pâli pa ññ ata.
5.
Burnouf, Lotus, p.
3…”
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◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1d
“When the child is grown, however, then the father turns over all he possesses.
THE LOST Those who have gone astray are those born of the spirit.
And they are usually lost because of the spirit.
So from one single breath of spirit the fir…”
◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1j
“In the world these are the true people.
They are the attendants of the bridal chamber.
POWER AND WEAKNESS In this world, power and weakness mingle when man and woman have sex.
Joining is different in the eternal realm, though we use the…”
◆Gospel of Thomas | Logion 28
“Jesus said, "I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared to them in flesh. I found all of them intoxicated; I found none of them thirsty. And my soul became afflicted for the sons of men, because they are blind in their hearts…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRST
“But I came out of all their midst, not any power knew (it), neither those of the inward part of the inward parts, nor those of the outward part of the outward, except the First Mystery only.
It happened therefore, I having come unto the Ch…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document THIRDc
“Say unto them, Renounce the villainies, and be worthy of the mysteries of the Light, and be delivered from all the [237 ] demons of Ialtabaoth with all his punishments.
Say unto them, Renounce the senselessness, and be worthy of the myster…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document THIRDf
“Answered also the Saviour, said he to Iohannes, Not only forgive to him as far as seven times, but Amen I say to you, Forgive him as far as seven times of a multitude of times: and give to him every time the mysteries from the beginning, th…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document THIRDg
“And also if he did not do that which is worthy of the mysteries, and he became in the transgression with every sin (the sins the sins, MS ) and also after these he turned, he became in a great repentance, he renounced all the World with all…”
◇Gospel of Philip | Section 1k
“If you become light, light will share you.
If you are of those from above, one of those from above will rest in you.
If you become a horse or a donkey or bull or dog or sheep or another animal that is wild or tame, then neither a person n…”
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◆The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 4 (part 1)
“p.
1 THE GOLDEN VERSES OF PYTHAGORAS 1.
First worship the Immortal Gods, as they are established and ordained by the Law.
2.
Reverence the Oath, and next the Heroes, full of goodness and light.
3.
Honour likewise the Terrestrial Dæmon…”
◆The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 6 (part 2)
“38.
The love is just which, unattended with injury, aspires after things becoming.
39.
Admit nothing as pleasant which is not advantageous.
40.
It is better to be governed by, than to govern, the stupid.
41.
Not argument but calamity…”
◆The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 10 (part 3)
“Speak not of God to every man.
79.
It is dangerous and the danger is not small, to speak of God even things which are true.
80.
A true assertion respecting God is an assertion of God.
p.
61 81.
You should not dare to speak of God to…”
◆The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 11
“p. 62 PYTHAGOREAN SENTENCES FROM THE PROTREPTICS OF IAMBLICHUS 1. As we live through soul, it must be said that by the virtue of this we live well; just as because we see through the eyes, we see well through the virtue of these. 2. It must…”
◆The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 12 (part 4)
“79 But this knowledge is the business of no other art and science than the Pythagorean philosophy alone, which in a transcendent degree honours disciplines before everything else.
SYMBOL 15.
Having departed from your house, turn not back;…”
◆The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 12 (part 6)
“The precept, therefore, admonishes us when we philosophize, and Proceed in the way pointed out, to fly from the snares of, and avoid all connection with, things corporeal and multifarious, but to become familiar with the essence of the inco…”
◇Orphic Hymns | Hymn XL. THE CERALIAN MOTHER
“XL. TO THE CERALIAN MOTHER. The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS. CERALIAN queen, of celebrated name, From whom both men, and Gods immortal came; Who widely wand'ring once, oppress'd with grief, In Eleusina's valley found'st relief, p. 173 Discove…”
◇The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | Section 10 (part 2)
“It is not proper to despise those things of which we shall be in want after the dissolution of the body.
36.
You should not ask of divinity that which, when you have obtained, you will not perpetually possess.
37.
Accustom your soul aft…”
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◆Meister Eckhart's Sermons (Field translation) | Va
“THE SELF-COMMUNICATION OF GOD St John xiv.
23 .—“If a man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.” We read in the Gospels that Our Lord fed many people with five…”
◆Meister Eckhart's Sermons (Field translation) | Vb
“It is necessary, therefore, for all the creatures which issued forth from God to co-operate earnestly with all their powers to form a Man who may again attain that union with God which Adam enjoyed before he fell, and who may again restore…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 1 (part 5)
“' Not that a person should run away from his home, and desert his wife, child, or relatives, commit suicide, or throw away his property, so that he may not be therein corporeally; but he should kill and annihilate his self-will, the will th…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 15)
“"The Spirit of Christ in His children is not bound to a certain form, so that He could say nothing but what is found in the writings of the apostles; but as the Spirit was free in the apostles, and as they did not all use the same expressio…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 16)
“21.) "If there were even a thousand persons well taught by God and regenerated in the Spirit of Christ assembled together, and if each of them had his own particular gift and self-knowledge in God, nevertheless they would all be one in the…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 14 (part 11)
“309 As a matter of course, no dead soul can be made alive by prayer, neither can mere lip-prayer or any empty ceremony aid the soul in freeing herself from the bonds of matter, but the living may aid the "dead," and especially the dying, by…”
◇Meister Eckhart's Sermons (Field translation) | IVa
“TRUE HEARING Ecclesiasticus xxiv.
30 .—“Whoso heareth Me shall not be confounded.” The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, “Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed.” If he is ashamed of anything he is ashamed of being ashamed.
Whoso worketh in…”
◇The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 11 (part 1)
“p.
224 CHAPTER XI.
INCARNATION—THE CELESTIAL VIRGIN.
The doctrine of the incarnation of Christ, or, to express it in other words, of the awakening of the germ of divine self-knowledge in man, is so grand, that it is impossible to form a…”
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◆Tao Te Ching | Chapter 79
“When a reconciliation is effected (between two parties) after a great animosity, there is sure to be a grudge remaining (in the mind of the one who was wrong). And how can this be beneficial (to the other)? Therefore (to guard against this)…”
◆The Writings of Chuang Tzu (Inner Chapters) | Book 126 (part 1)
“p.
203 BOOK IV.
PART I.
SECTION IV.
Zän Kien Shih, or 'Man in the World, Associated with other Men 1 .' 1.
Yen Hui 2 went to see Kung-nî 3 , and asked leave to take his departure.
'Where are you going to?' asked the Master.
'I will g…”
◆The Writings of Chuang Tzu (Inner Chapters) | Book 126 (part 5)
“They know that there is no alternative to their acting as they do, and rest in it as what is appointed; and this is the highest achievement of virtue.
He who is in the position of a minister or of a son has indeed to do what he cannot but…”
◇Tao Te Ching | Chapter 8
“The highest excellence is like (that of) water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike. Hence (its way) is near to (that of…”
◇Tao Te Ching | Chapter 10
“When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating. When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) b…”
◇Tao Te Ching | Chapter 27
“The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what…”
◇Tao Te Ching | Chapter 49
“The sage has no invariable mind of his own; he makes the mind of the people his mind. To those who are good (to me), I am good; and to those who are not good (to me), I am also good;--and thus (all) get to be good. To those who are sincere…”
◇Tao Te Ching | Chapter 81
“Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do n…”
egyptian7
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 38 (part 2)
“(16) Hail, Strider, who comest forth from Bast, I have not been an eavesdropper.
(17) Hail, Aaati, who comest forth from Annu, I have not set my lips in motion against any man.
(18) Hail, thou god of two-fold evil, who comest forth from A…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 38 (part 3)
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I have not behaved myself with arrogance (?).
(40) Hail, Neheb-kau, who comest forth from thy city, I have not been overweeningly proud.
(40) Hail, Tcheser-tep, who comest forth from thy hiding place, I have never magnif…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 38 (part 4)
“I am pure, in my fore-parts have I been made clean, and in my hinder parts have I (19) been purified; my reins have been bathed in the Pool of right and truth, and no member of my body was wanting.
I have been purified in the pool of the s…”
◆The Egyptian Heaven and Hell | Chapter 5 (part 8)
“This result Thoth announces to the gods in the following words, "In very truth the heart of Osiris hath been weighed, and his soul hath stood as a witness for him; its case is right (i.e., it hath been found true by trial) in the Great Bala…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 7 (part 3)
“xi.) that the Prisse papyrus was copied about the period of the XVIIth dynasty and that the works in it only date from the XIIth dynasty; but many Egyptologists assign the composition of the work to the age of Assa.
See Wiedemann, Aegyptis…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 20 (part 8)
“I have made Osiris, the overlord of the netherworld, to be victorious over his enemies; and I have carried away all his foes to the place of slaughter in the East; they shall never come forth from the durance of the god Seb therein.
(79) I…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 65)
“In the Journal de Paris , 15 Mars, 1871; and in the Academy , Aug.
1, No.
29, p.
386, 1871.
7.
L'Égyptologie , Série I., tt.
i., ii., Chalons-sur-Saône and Paris, 40., 1876-78.
This work contains the hieratic text divided into sectio…”
platonism7
◆Plato: Phaedo | Section 1
“In any way that you like; only you must get hold of me, and take care that I do not walk away from you.
Then he turned to us, and added with a smile: I cannot make Crito believe that I am the same Socrates who have been talking and conduct…”
◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1e
“Many lovers too have loved the person of a youth before they knew his character or his belongings; so that when their passion has passed away, there is no knowing whether they will continue to be his friends; whereas, in the case of non-lov…”
◆Plato: Republic | Section 1i
“No, my friend, and they have seldom, if ever, heard free and noble sentiments; such as men utter when they are earnestly and by every means in their power seeking after truth for the sake of knowledge, while they look coldly on the subtleti…”
◆Plato: Republic | Section 1r
“There you are right, he said, since we have made them to share in all things like the men.
Well, I said, and you would agree (would you not?) that what has been said about the State and the government is not a mere dream, and although diff…”
◆Plato: Symposium | Section 1j
“And on the same principle he who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and…”
◆Plato: Symposium | Section 1r
“In the first place he is a poet (and here, like Eryximachus, I magnify my art), and he is also the source of poesy in others, which he could not be if he were not himself a poet.
And at the touch of him every one becomes a poet, even thoug…”
◆Plato: Symposium | Section 1
“Yet at a festival he was the only person who had any real powers of enjoyment; though not willing to drink, he could if compelled beat us all at that,-wonderful to relate!
no human being had ever seen Socrates drunk; and his powers, if I a…”
neoplatonism4
◆Select Works of Plotinus | Select Works, Section 48
“Section 15 15. But suppose two wise men, one of them possessing all that is supposed to be naturally welcome, while the other meets only with the very reverse: do we assert that they have an equal happiness? We do, if they are equally wise.…”
◇Select Works of Plotinus | Select Works, Section 44
“Section 11 11. We shall perhaps be told that in such a state the man is no longer alive: we answer that these people show themselves equally unable to understand his inner life and his happiness. If this does not satisfy them, we must ask t…”
◇Select Works of Plotinus | Select Works, Section 167
“Section 11 11. Now, in the first place, if the Soul has not actually come down but has illuminated the darkness, how can it truly be said to have declined? The outflow from it of something in the nature of light does not justify the asserti…”
◇Select Works of Plotinus | Select Works, Section 418
“Section 2 2. Let every soul recall, then, at the outset the truth that soul is the author of all living things, that it has breathed the life into them all, whatever is nourished by earth and sea, all the creatures of the air, the divine st…”
hermeticism3
◆Corpus Hermeticum 1: Poimandres | Section 1f
“All this befell me from my Mind, that is Man-Shepherd, Word (Logos) of all masterhood, by whom being God-inspired I came unto the Plain of Truth.
Wherefore with all my soul and strength thanksgiving give I unto Father-God.
31.
Holy art T…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1e
“And for this cause is water poured around earth, to be a guard and wall, to keep the blazing of the fire away.
But mind, the swiftest thing of all divine outthinkings, and swifter than all elements, hath for its body fire.
For mind being…”
◇Corpus Hermeticum 13: The Discourse of Hermes to Tat | Section 1c
“Gnosis of God hath come to us, and when this comes, my son, Not-knowing is cast out.
Gnosis of Joy hath come to us, and on its coming, son, Sorrow will flee away to them who give it room.
The Power that follows Joy do I invoke, thy Self-c…”
jewish_mysticism3
◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XXXIX
“XXXIX. The Abode of the Righteous and of the Elect One: the Praises of the Blessed . CHAPTER XXXIX. 1. [ And it †shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy children †will descend from the high heaven, and their seed †will become o…”
◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XCVIII
“XCVIII. Self-indulgence of Sinners: Sin originated by Man: all Sin recorded in Heaven: Woes for the Sinners . CHAPTER XCVIII. 1. And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish, For ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.…”
◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XCIX
“XCIX. Woes pronounced on the Godless, the Lawbreakers: evil Plight of Sinners in the last Days: further Woes . CHAPTER XCIX. 1. Woe to you who work godlessness, And glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be…”
norse3
◆The Poetic Edda: Hovamol | Section 1b
“Hail to the giver!
| a guest has come; Where shall the stranger sit?
Swift shall he be who, | with swords shall try The proof of his might to make.
[1.
This stanza is quoted by Snorri, the second line being omitted in most of the Prose…”
◆The Poetic Edda: Hovamol | Section 1d
“Forth shall one go, | nor stay as a guest In a single spot forever; p.
36 Love becomes loathing | if long one sits By the hearth in another's home.
36.
Better a house, | though a hut it be, A man is master at home; A pair of goats | and…”
◆The Poetic Edda: Hovamol | Section 1l
“| and hear thou my rede,- Profit thou hast if thou hearest, Great thy gain if thou learnest: I bid thee be wary, | but be not fearful; (Beware most with ale or another's wife, And third beware | lest a thief outwit thee.) [129.
Line 5 is a…”
mandaean2
◆Gnostic John the Baptizer — Some Typical Extracts | Section 14
“That the Mandæan religion preserves echoes of a wealth of ancient
mythical elements found in Iranian, Babylonian and Semitic traditions is
evident on all hands. A process of syncretism had presumably gone on for
generations before an impuls…”
◆Gnostic John the Baptizer — Some Typical Extracts | Section 17
“My sons! See that you are not hinters and that your eyes make no
suggestions [ sc . to women]. For the hinters and wink-givers will be
assigned to the guard-stations. To the guard-stations will they be assigned
and be judged with stern just…”
renaissance_hermeticism2
◆The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | INTRODUCTIONj
“The body is in the soul, the soul is in the mind, the mind is in God.
The life of the soul is the true life of the man.
Of all his various faculties, that which rules all, that which exalts our nature, is Thought.
By means of it we rise…”
◇The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | INTRODUCTIONg
“His extraordinary memory and his eloquence caused great astonishment; and the fame of Bruno reached the ears of King Henry III., who sent for him to the Court, and being filled with admiration of his learning, he offered him a substantial s…”
zoroastrianism2
◆Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXX, Section 1b
“And may we be such as those who bring on p.
34 this great renovation, and make this world progressive, (till its perfection shall have been reached).
(As) the Ahuras of Mazda 1 (even) may we be; (yea, like Thyself), in helpful readiness t…”
◆Avesta (Gathas) | Ahunavaiti Gatha, Yasna XXXIV, Section 1a
“1.
As to those (three gifts of blessings), Immortality, the Righteous Order, and the (established) Kingdom of Welfare, which Thou, O Mazda!
hast given through (holy) deeds, words, and the sacrifice unto these (Thy servants here in my sigh…”
sufism1
◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY XVIa
“'Ali's Forbearance.
'Ali, the "Lion of God," was once engaged in conflict with a Magian chief, and in the midst of the struggle the Magian spat in his face.
'Ali, instead of taking vengeance on him, at once dropped his sword, to the Magia…”