anthropology
Tripartite Soul
Division of the human being into three principles: spirit (pneuma), soul (psyche), and body/matter (hyle or soma).
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◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter I
“It is also necessary to demonstrate to you, in what dæmons, heroes, and souls differ from each other, and whether this difference is according to essence, or according to power, or according to energy. I say, therefore, that dæmons are prod…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VI
“Moreover, the gifts arising from the manifestations are not all of them equal, nor have the same fruits. But the presence [44] of the Gods, indeed, imparts to us health of body, virtue of soul, purity of intellect, and in one word elevates…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter XXVIa
“Since, however, prayers are not the smallest [but on the contrary a very great] part of sacrifices, especially give completion to them, and through these the whole operation of them is corroborated and effected; and since, besides 271 this,…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VII
“From these things, therefore, it is easy to answer your next question. For the peculiar dæmon does not rule over one of the parts in us, but, in short, over all the parts at once, and extends to every principle within us, in the same manner…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIIIl
“Opinion, likewise, and the phantasy, are said thus to energize when they discover arts, and accomplish admirable works, such, for instance, as Phidias effected in the formation of statues, and another in another art, as also Homer says [157…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIIIo
“In the next place, departing from intellect, and descending into reasoning and dianoia, it no longer apprehended real beings by simple intuitions, but syllogistically and transitively, proceeding from one thing to another, from propositions…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIIIq
“On the contrary, divinely-inspired poets, as Hermeas well observes, knock, as it were, at the gates of the Muses, and thus being filled from thence exclaim, Εσπετε νυν μοι Μουσαι And, Μηνιν αειδε θεα— And, Ανδρα μοι εννεπε Μουσα .
For bein…”
◆Iamblichus: On the Mysteries | Chapter VIII
“For these conceptions and these works teach us, that in reality we, through sacred operations, approach to divinity, but that divinity does not draw near to us.
Hence Proclus in Alcibiad.
εν ταις κλησεσι, και εν ταις αυτοψιαις προσιεναι π…”
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◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 2 (part 7)
“The light of God has also the quality of the fire, but in it the wrath is changed into love; hate and bitter pain into mild beneficence and sweet desire or satisfaction." ( Menschwerdung , i.
5–16.) "The fountain of love is a clasping and…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 3 (part 8)
“Without it the form of the spirit would not be knowable; it is the corporeity of the spirit.
To be sure, it is not a bodily, tangible substance, like the bodies of men, but has nevertheless substantial and visible qualities which the spiri…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 4 (part 4)
“We may say that the world, as we know it, is constituted entirely of forms of heat, or of motion, or of electric conditions, or light, &c., &c.
All this is true in so far as it refers to the relations which it bears towards ourselves.
All…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 4 (part 6)
“"The created world was before the mysterium magnum, for all things were then in a spiritual condition in wisdom, as in a continual play or wrestle of love.
The one only Will conceived this spiritual form into the Word, and permitted the in…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 5 (part 2)
“It ought to be kept in mind that "myths" are not "fables." Myths are representations of actualities clothed in a fabulous form.
Their kernel is true, even if the shell in which it is clothed is an illusion.
"There are seven principal qual…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 5 (part 5)
“109 the spirit of holiness cannot enter unless unholiness is chased away.
In this battle against evil the angels are always ready to assist man in an invisible manner against the temptations of the "devils," provided that he is willing to…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 5 (part 6)
“"In the lightning flash, the fourth form of nature, is the origin of life, and it attains perfection in the constancy of the fire.
Here, in the object of division, is the p.
111 spirit born, and this spirit can either go backwards and ent…”
◆The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 6 (part 5)
“But when this took place the love in the light of God broke through that heaven of division and ignited the heat." ( Aurora , xxv.
68.) "God, the eternal light and the eternal will, shines within the darkness, and the darkness has captured…”
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◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter LXI — Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-Fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will | Chapter LXI, Section 1a
“CHAPTER LXI.
Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-Fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will .
It is the opinion of some divines that God did not immediately create the…”
◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter LXI — Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-Fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will | Chapter LXI, Section 1b
“This is that which shows us future things by dreams, whence the fancy is sometimes named the phantastical intellect.
For it is the last impression of the understanding, which, as saith Iamblicus, is that belonging to all the powers of the…”
◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter LXI — Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-Fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will | Chapter LXI, Section 1c
“Whereof the first is called oblectation, which is a certain quietness or assentation of the mind or will, because it obeys, and not willingly consents to that pleasantness which the senses hold forth; which is, therefore, defined to be an i…”
◆Agrippa: The Philosophy of Natural Magic, Chapter LXII — Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds | Chapter LXII, Section 1
“CHAPTER LXII. Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds . The passions of the human mind are nothing else but certain motions or inclinations proceeding from the apprehension of any thing, as of good or evil…”
◆The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | INTRODUCTIONh
“The primal idea of Pythagoras, which Bruno worked out to a more distinct development is this: numbers are the beginning of things; in other words numbers are the cause of the existence of material things; they are not final, but are always…”
◆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) | First Dialoguec
“Hence he cries: "O mountain of Parnassus, where I abide!
Muses, with whom I converse!
Fountain of Helicon, where I am nourished.
Mountain, that affordest me a quiet dwelling-place!
Muses, that inspire me with pro found doctrines.
Fount…”
◆The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part I (Gli Eroici Furori) | First Dialogued
“Some are called in vain to put in a ready appearance, and are chiefly those which proceed from the lower instincts, and which obey the reason either not at all, or very little; and forcing himself to prevent their actions and condemn those…”
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◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Isis, the Virgin of the Worldj
“They understood hypnotism, mesmerism, and similar practices long before the modem world dreamed of their existence.
Plutarch describes the requisites of a follower of Isis in this manner: "For as 'tis not the length of the beard, or the co…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Sun, A Universal Deityg
“According to the mystics, there are three suns in each solar system, analogous to the three centers of life in each individual constitution.
These are called three lights: the spiritual sun, the intellectual or soular sun, and the material…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Sun, A Universal Deityk
“Thus a yellow flower generally yields a medicine that affects the constitution in a manner similar to yellow light or the musical tone mi .
An orange flower will influence in a manner similar to orange light and, being one of the so-called…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismd
“The second center (or the link between the superior and inferior worlds) is elevated to the position of greatest physical dignity--the brain.
The third (or lower) center is relegated to the position of least physical dignity but greatest p…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Human Body in Symbolismh
“This knowledge of how man's manifold constitution could be most quickly and most completely regenerated to the point of spiritual illumination constituted the secret, or esoteric, doctrine of antiquity.
Certain apparently physical organs a…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Colora
“HARMONY is a state recognized by great philosophers as the immediate prerequisite of beauty.
A compound is termed beautiful only when its parts are in harmonious combination.
The world is called beautiful and its Creator is designated the…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | Stones, Metals and Gemsa
“EACH of the four primary elements as taught by the early philosophers has its analogue in the quaternary terrestrial constitution of man.
The rocks and earth correspond to the bones and flesh; the water to the various fluids; the air to th…”
◆The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall) | An Analysis of Tarot Cardsl
“Thirteen teardrops are falling from the solar face Levi, seeing in the two children Faith and Reason, which must coexist as long as the temporal universe endures, writes: "Human equilibrium requires two feet, the worlds gravitate by means o…”
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◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 4 (part 28)
“The Chapter of bringing a boat in the underworld.
Vignette: A boat.
Chapter C.
The Chapter of making perfect the khu , and of making it to enter into the boat of Ra, together with his divine followers.
Vignette: A boat containing a comp…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 6)
“Maspero explained to the Members of the Congress of Lyons the views which he held concerning this word, and which he had for the past five years been teaching in the Collège de France, and said, "le ka est une sorte de double de la personne…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 18)
“It reapeth the wheat, it cutteth the barley, and it giveth it unto thee.
Now, therefore, O Pepi, he that hath given unto thee life and all power and eternity and the power of speech and thy body is Ra.
Thou hast endued thyself with the fo…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 13 (part 8)
“27.) Chapter LXXXIX.
"The Chapter of causing the soul to be united to its body in Neter-khert." (See pp.
112, 318, and pl.
17.) The two incense burners which stand, one at the head and one at the foot of the bier, are peculiar to the pap…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 16 (part 3)
“The palettes of the Egyptian scribe were rectangular, and were made of wood, stone, basalt, ivory (see Nos.
5512a, 5513, 5525a, and 12,779, etc., in the British Museum).
They measure from 10 to 17 inches in length, and from 2 to 3 inches…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 29 (part 2)
“Text [CHAPTER CXXXIII.]: (1) TO BE SAID ON THE DAY OF THE MONTH.[2] (2) Osiris Ani, the scribe, triumphant in peace, triumphant, saith: "Ra riseth (2) in his horizon, and the company of his gods follow after the god when he appeareth from h…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 40 (part 5)
“Instead of three, the Nebseni papyrus has four ovals, which are called Hetep, An (?), Uakhakha, and Neb-taui.
3 In the Turin papyrus, published by Lepsius, the ploughing, sowing, reaping and treading out the corn are all shown in one divis…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 24)
“The vignettes too are additions to the work; but, although they depict scenes in the life beyond the grave, they do not seem to form a connected series, and it is doubtful if they are arranged on any definite plan.
A general idea of the co…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 46)
“lxi} per-f em aabt t'eba-tha em sah-k pen am baiu he cometh from the cast, [when] thou art endued with this thy sah among the souls.[1] 3.
ahau pa neheh t'er-f pa t'etta em sah-f [His] duration of life is eternity, his limit of life is eve…”
◆The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 48)
“In the XIIth dynasty and in later periods the gods are entreated to grant meat and drink to the ka of the deceased; and it seems as if the Egyptians thought that the future welfare of the spiritual body depended upon the maintenance of a co…”
◆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 Heaven and Hell | Chapter 8 (part 3)
“AFU-RA), twelve goddesses, who open the gates in the earth, twelve goddesses, who guide the god, and nine gods, "who praise Ra" (vol.
i., pp.
9-11).
So soon as AFU-RA has entered this DIVISION (ARRIT) he calls upon the gods to let him pr…”
◆The Egyptian Heaven and Hell | Chapter 12 (part 1)
“THIRD DIVISION OF THE TUAT.
II.
THE KINGDOM OF KHENTI-AMENTI-OSIRIS ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF GATES.
Before AFU-RA can pass into the THIRD DIVISION it is necessary for him to pass through a Gate which is protected by two strong walls, wit…”
◆The Egyptian Heaven and Hell | Chapter 26 (part 1)
“p.
182 CHAPTER XIII.
NINTH DIVISION OF THE TUAT.
II.
KINGDOM OF TEMU-KHEPERA-RA ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF GATES.
THE NINTH, TENTH and ELEVENTH DIVISIONS of the BOOK OF GATES contain series of pictures and texts which are very hard to ex…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 5)
“nuk sah em ba-f I am a sah with his soul.[3] In the late edition of the Book of the Dead published by Lepsius the deceased is said to " look upon his body and to rest upon his sahu ,"[4] and souls are said "to enter into their sahu ";[5] an…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 7)
“When there were neither material offerings nor painted similitudes to feed upon, it seems as if the ka must have perished; but the texts are not definite on this point.
A prayer of the ka.
The following is a specimen of the ka's petition…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 9)
“lxvii} supported by a passage in the XCIInd Chapter of the Book of the Dead,[1] where it is said:-- em xena ba-a sauti xaibit-a un uat Let not be shut in my soul, let not be fettered my shadow, let be opened the way en ba-d en xaibit-a maa-…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 6 (part 12)
“Every khu and every god stretcheth out his hand unto this Pepi when he cometh forth into heaven by the Ladder of God .
.
.
.
that which he seeth and that which he heareth make him wise, and serve as food for him when he cometh forth int…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 7 (part 5)
“141.
2.
Ibid.
, p.
149.
3 Ibid.
, p.
172.] {p.
lxxxix} God and the gods.
The passages from the pyramid of Pepi show at once the difference between neter as God, and the "gods" neteru ; the other passages, which might be multiplied…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 25 (part 2)
“Saith Osiris Ani: "Hail, thou god Annitu!
Hail, O Runner, (2) dwelling in thy hall!
O thou great god, grant thou " that my soul may come unto me from wheresoever it may be.
If it would tarry, then bring thou unto me (3) my soul from wher…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 25 (part 3)
“Vignette: [1] Ani standing at the doorway of the tomb; and Ani's shadow, accompanied by his soul.
Text [CHAPTER XCII.]: (I) THE CHAPTER OF OPENING THE TOMB TO THE SOUL OF THE SHADOW, OF COMING FORTH BY DAY, AND OF GETTING POWER OVER THE LE…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 40)
“Thou art the heir of Seb and the sovereign of all the earth; [* This festival took place on the 17th and 18th days of the month Thoth; see Brugsch, Kalendarische Inschriften, p.
235.] {footnote page liii} Seb hath seen thy glorious power,…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 47)
“(Extrait du t.
xxiv.
des Mémoires de la Société impériale des Antiquaires de France ).
Dr.
Birch translated the word by être, personne, emblème, divin, génie, principe, esprit.
In September, 1878, V.
Maspero explained to the Members o…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 51)
“i-nek sexem-k am xu Cometh to thee thy sekhem among the khu's.[6] [1.
I.e.
, Horus.
2 Recueil de Travaux , t.
v., p.
19 (l.
174).
3.
Recueil de Travaux , t.
v., p.
41 (l.
289).
4.
See below, p.
117.
5.
See below, p.
115.
6…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 52)
“They believed in an incorporeal and immortal part of man, the constituent elements of which flew to heaven after death and embalmment; yet the theologians of the VIth dynasty had decided that there was some part of the deceased which could…”
◇The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) | Chapter 43 (part 67)
“I am a prince, the son of a prince, a sacred essence which hath preceded from God.
I am a great one, the son of a great one, and my father planned my name; I have multitudes of names and multitudes of forms, and my existence is in every go…”
◇The Egyptian Heaven and Hell | Chapter 2 (part 4)
“xiv [paragraph continues] Egyptians believed in the reconstitution of family life in the Other World, and thought that every man, and woman, and child would possess such a measure of individuality that they would know their relatives and fr…”
◇The Egyptian Heaven and Hell | Chapter 12 (part 2)
“The text which refers to this remarkable scene tells us that AFU-RA addresses the eight gods who support the "Boat of the Earth," and declares that he who is in it is "holy," and in reply the being or beings ENNURKHA-TA (?) say, "Praised be…”
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◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 2)
“For a self-motive being, is the cause of motion to those, which are moved by another, in the same manner as that which is immovable, inserts in all beings the power of moving.
And again, that which is moved only, must depend on those natur…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 12)
“But to the other Gods, to the world, and to the erratic and fixed stars, composed from body and soul, and to the visible divinities, testimonials of gratitude are to be offered by sacrificing with inanimate substances.
After these there re…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Front Matter, p. 4 (part 15)
“For the generative causes of things, are contained by similitude in their effects; and in causes themselves their progeny subsist, comprehended in perfect union and consent.
Hence the celestial orbs impart a copious defluxion of good to th…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn XXVIII. PROSERPINE (part 1)
“XXVIII.
TO PROSERPINE.
A HYMN DAUGHTER of Jove, almighty and divine, Come, blessed queen, and to these rites incline: Only-begotten, Pluto's honor'd wife, 3 O venerable Goddess, source of life: 'Tis thine in earth's profundities to dwell,…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn LX. NEMESIS
“LX. TO NEMESIS. A HYMN. THEE, Nemesis I call, almighty queen, By whom the deeds of mortal life are seen: Eternal, much rever'd, of boundless sight, Alone rejoicing in the just and right: Changing the counsels of the human breast 5 For ever…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn LXXV. THE MUSES (part 1)
“LXXV.
TO THE MUSES.
The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE.
Daughters of Jove, dire-sounding and divine, 1 Renown'd Pierian, sweetly speaking Nine; p.
206 To those whose breasts your sacred furies fire Much-form'd, the objects of supreme desi…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn LXXV. THE MUSES (part 3)
“So in the poetic chain, it is requisite there should be something divine, which, through proper mediums, may connect the last to the first monad.
This Fury Homer, as well as Plato, calls at one time in the plural number Muses, and at anoth…”
◆Orphic Hymns | Hymn LXXV. THE MUSES (part 4)
“Besides this, it teaches the circuits of the soul, its immortality and various powers; explains to mortals many names of an incorporeal nature, and produces many probable Dogmata respecting corporeal substance.
The Athenian guest (in Plato…”
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◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1h
“Once upon a time there was a fair boy, or, more properly speaking, a youth; he was very fair and had a great many lovers; and there was one special cunning one, who had persuaded the youth that he did not love him, but he really loved him a…”
◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1s
“You may believe this, but not unless you like.
At any rate the loves of lovers and their causes are such as I have described.
Now the lover who is taken to be the attendant of Zeus is better able to bear the winged god, and can endure a h…”
◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1t
“The other is a crooked lumbering animal, put together anyhow; he has a short thick neck; he is flat-faced and of a dark colour, with grey eyes and blood-red complexion; the mate of insolence and pride, shag-eared and deaf, hardly yielding t…”
◆Plato: Phaedrus | Section 1u
“And the beloved when he has received him into communion and intimacy, is quite amazed at the good-will of the lover; he recognises that the inspired friend is worth all other friends or kinsmen; they have nothing of friendship in them worth…”
◆Plato: Republic | Section 1e
“Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
Quite true, he replied.
And will our pupils, when th…”
◆Plato: Republic | Section 1o
“And, again, in respect of temperance, courage, magnificence, and every other virtue, should we not carefully distinguish between the true son and the bastard?
for where there is no discernment of such qualities States and individuals uncon…”
◆Plato: Symposium | Section 1i
“But, as I was saying at first, the truth as I imagine is, that whether such practices are honourable or whether they are dishonourable is not a simple question; they are honourable to him who follows them honourably, dishonourable to him wh…”
◆Plato: Timaeus | Section 1}
“Wherefore earth when not consolidated by force is dissolved by water only; when consolidated, by nothing but fire; for this is the only body which can find an entrance.
The cohesion of water again, when very strong, is dissolved by fire on…”
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◆Corpus Hermeticum 4: The Epistles | Section 1b
“And having raised themselves so far they sight the Good; and having sighted it, they look upon their sojourn here as a mischance; and in disdain of all, both things in body and the bodiless, they speed their way unto that One and Only One.…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 8: The Eight Sphere | Section 1b
“Now the third life - Man, after the image of the Cosmos made, [and] having mind, after the Father's will, beyond all earthly lives - not only doth have feeling with the second God <i.e., the Cosmos>, but also hath conception of the first; f…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 9: The Decalogue | Section 1a
“On Thought and Sense <This somewhat diffuse essay covers a series of topics, starting with (and to some extent from) the concept that the set of perceptions we call "thoughts" and the set we call "sensory perceptions" are not significantly…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 9: The Decalogue | Section 1c
“This is God's sense-and-thought, ever to move all things.
And never time shall be when e'en a whit of things that are shall cease; and when I say "a whit of things that are", I mean a whit of God.
For thigs that are, God hath; nor aught […”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1a
“The Key <This longer tractate presents itself explicitly as a summary or abridgement of the General Sermons (CH II-IX), and discusses the Hermetic view of knowledge and its role in the lives and afterlives of human beings.
The attentive re…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1b
“For It doth will to be, and It is both Itself and most of all by reason of Itself.
Indeed, all other things beside are just bacause of It; for the distinctive feature of the Good is "that it should be known".
Such is the Good, O Tat.
Tat…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1c
“For that the soul who hath no knowledge of the things that are, or knowledge of their nature, or of Good, is blinded by the body's passions and tossed about.
This wretched soul, not knowing what she is, becomes the slave of bodies of stran…”
◆Corpus Hermeticum 10: The Sermon on the Mount | Section 1f
“But God is o'er them all, and God contains them all.
God's rays, to use a figure, are His energies; the Cosmos's are natures, the arts and sciences are man's.
The energies act through the Cosmos, thence through the nature-rays of Cosmos u…”
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◆Gospel of Philip | Section 1b
“TRUTH MADE NAMES Truth made names in the world, and without them we can’t think.
Truth is one and is many, teaching one thing through the many.
RULERS The rulers wanted to fool us, since they saw we were connected with the good.
They too…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTe
“And having come, coming unto the World I came unto the midst of the Rulers of the Sphere, I was the likeness of Gabriel the angel of the Aeons, and knew me not the Rulers of the Aeons.
But they were thinking that I am Gabriel the angel.
I…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document FIRSTy
“This therefore is the explanation of the third repentance which said the Pistis Sophia hymning unto the Height.
It happened therefore, Jesus having heard Martha saying these words, said he, Well done, Martha, and fairly (said).
Added also…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document SECONDb
“I therefore with the power also which came out of me, and the soul which I took from Sabaoth the good, they came close to one another [117 ], they became one effluence of light which enlighteneth greatly greatly; I called unto Gabriel down…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document SECOND
“Amen I say unto you, That man whenever he should come out of the body, they are not wont to judge him in any Place of the Rulers, nor will they be able to punish him in any Place, 120 nor the fire will touch him through the great mystery of…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document THIRDm
“Now therefore they are wont to bear the child, the power in him being small, and being small in him the soul, and being small in him the counterfeit spirit also in one word, being small the three together: having not any of them any percept…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document THIRDt
“And are not wont those Contentious (ones) they are not wont to prevail to pass through the Chaoses, for them to come unto the arrays which are above the Chaoses, and 150 convict the souls which come out of those Places.
Now therefore the s…”
◆Pistis Sophia | Document THIRD
“And 166 that man came out of the body before that he repented again and received mystery again in the mysteries, those which (are) within the mysteries which he finished receiving, these which they are wont to receive again for the repentan…”
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◆The Writings of Chuang Tzu (Inner Chapters) | Book 124 (part 1)
“p.
176 BOOK II.
PART I.
SECTION II.
Khî Wû Lun, or 'The Adjustment of Controversies 1 .' 1.
Nan-kwo Sze-khî 2 was seated, leaning forward on his stool.
He was looking up to heaven and breathed gently, seeming to be in a trance, and to…”
◇The Writings of Chuang Tzu (Inner Chapters) | Book 127 (part 6)
“What I mean when I say that he is without these is, that this man does not by his likings and dislikings do any inward harm to his body;--he always pursues his course without effort, and does not (try to) increase his (store of) life.' Hui-…”
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◆The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXXI
“LXXI. Two earlier visions of Enoch . CHAPTER LXXI. 1. And it came to pass after this that my spirit was translated And it ascended into the heavens: And I saw the holy sons of God . They were stepping on flames of fire: Their garments were…”
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◆The Poetic Edda: Voluspo | Section 1e
“Fili, Kili, | Fundin, Nali, Heptifili, | Hannar, Sviur, Frar, Hornbori, | Fræg and Loni, Aurvang, Jari, | Eikinskjaldi.
14.
The race of the dwarfs | in Dvalin's throng Down to Lofar | the list must I tell; The rocks they left, | and throu…”
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◆The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY IIIa
“The Jewish King, his Vazir, and the Christians.
A certain Jewish king used to persecute the Christians, desiring to exterminate their faith.
His Vazir persuaded him to try a stratagem, namely, to mutilate the Vazir himself, and expel him…”