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Mesopotamia & Egypt

and be satisfied, and he cannot gratify the cravings of affection" (Chapter CLXXV). In the Tuat there was neither tree nor plant, for it was the "land where nothing grew"; and in primitive times it was a region of destruction and death, a p… Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani), Book of the Dead Chapter 6 ¶3

Thus far all was national. As the arena of thought and action widened from national limits to a world of imperial scope, when the Egyptian state expanded to embrace contiguous Asia and Africa, the forces of imperial power consistently react… Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt, Breasted, Religion and Thought Lecture 1 ¶5

India

Krishna. Yet farther will I open unto thee This wisdom of all wisdoms, uttermost, The which possessing, all My saints have passed To perfectness. On such high verities Reliant, rising into fellowship With Me, they are not born again at birt… Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gita 14 (Arnold) ¶1

Some people are born again; evil-doers go to hell; righteous people go to heaven; those who are free from all worldly desires attain Nirvana. Dhammapada, Dhammapada 126

That Brother gazed and gazed at that flower. The Blessed One made it decay. As tlie Brother looked at it, the flower in its decay farled; the petals fell off, beginning at the rim, till in a little while all were gone; then the stamens fell… The Jātaka, vol. I (Ekanipāta), Jātaka I No. 25 p.2 ¶3

China & Japan

Line 1 is weak, and at the bottom of the hexagram. Though 4 be a proper correlate, yet the influence indicated by it must be ineffective. However much a man’s great toes may be moved, that will not enable him to walk. The calves cannot move… I Ching (Yi King, Book of Changes), I Ching p.125 ¶198

Chuang Tzŭ having replied in the affirmative, the skull began:--"In death, there is no sovereign above, and no subject below. The workings of the four seasons are unknown. Our existences are bounded only by eternity. The happiness of a king… Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi 18 (Giles) ¶7

Persia & Islam

The Quran as quoted in the Fas says /layli ur gaul amran kullaha “ All things return into Him”—when man dies, he enters into a world of other elements— Youma tubaddalul ardu ghair al ard (Suratu Ibrahim XIV: 48). “On that day the earth shou… Fusus al-Hikam (Bezels of Wisdom), Fusus (Khaja Khan) p.114 ¶158a

The lion now remarked: “The words you speak are true. But just consider how the prophets, saints, ensue. What they have wrought hath God blessed, made to prosper still; Their joys and griefs, their sufferings, pains, were by His will. Their… Masnavi, Masnavi I Chapter 9 ¶115

Thou wilt see many of them vieing in sin and enmity, and in eating unlawful things, — evil is it that they have done. The masters and their doctors prohibit them from speaking sin and eating unlawful things, — evil is what they have perform… The Qur'an, Qur'an (Palmer), Chapter 5 p.3 ¶15

Hebrew & Jewish

O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest from above things in the heaven and in the air; Apocrypha (Deuterocanonical books: Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, Maccabees, ...), 2 Esdras 8:20

And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, And of the dew of heaven from above; The Bible (Old and New Testaments), Genesis 27:39

2. 〚And〛 water gushed forth from above. 1 Enoch, 1 Enoch 28:2

Greek & Roman

His tender parent could no longer bear; But, interposing, sought to soothe his care. “Whoe’er you are, not unbelov’d by Heav’n, Since on our friendly shore your ships are driv’n: Have courage: to the gods permit the rest, And to the queen e… The Aeneid, Aeneid (Dryden), Book I ¶27

Who falls infatuate, he sees not, neither knows he That we are at his side; So closely round about him, darkly flitting, The cloud of guilt doth glide. Heavily ’tis uttered, how around his hearthstone The mirk of hell doth rise. Stern and f… Aeschylus: Tragedies (Oresteia, Prometheus Bound, etc.), Aeschylus The Furies ¶22

Proc. in Tim., 321. Z. or T. 91. This Animastic Spirit which blessed men have called the Pneumatic Soul, becometh a god, an all-various Daemon, and an Image (disembodied), and in this form of Soul suffereth her punishments The Oracles, too,… The Chaldean Oracles, Chaldean Oracles p.7 ¶34

Hidden streams

No, 2 isa Square of 49 Squares, and is also a complete Specimen 170 - THe Book oF THE SACRED MAGIC Ae of double Acrostic—THIRAMA from Chaldee TIRM = —e ‘ defended places, or Citadels—-HIGANAM from Hebrew or. Chal. dee GNN or GNM = to defend… The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, Abramelin p.168 ¶230

ther, and thus rendred each others afflidion more grievous. But although neither I, nor any of the rell could /ec one jot; yet I continually heard one heaving himfelf /r^ei/e the other, when his Chains or Fetters were become ever fo little … The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, Chymical Wedding ¶6

This seems to me to be a symbol of the mysteries, a glyph of rebirth. The lambs are the purified lower nature of the man, the purest essence of which is exalted to the head of the Great Man. This purified "little man" is swallowed by the Co… Corpus Hermeticum, TGH II p.55 ¶66

Christian

56. Why should one, then, be surprised if the earth give back those bodies of men which it has received, seeing that it gives life to, raises, clothes, protects, and defends whatsoever bodies of seeds it has received? Cease then to doubt th… On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus (De excessu fratris; incl. On Belief in the Resurrection), Ambrose, On the Decease of Satyrus, Three Books on the Duties of the Clergy, Book II. ¶49

Although we are baptized with water and the Spirit, the latter is much superior to the former, and is not therefore to be separated from the Father and the Son. 76. There are, however, many who, because we are baptized with water and the Sp… On the Duties of the Clergy (De officiis ministrorum), Ambrose, Duties of the Clergy, Three Books on the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter VI. ¶1 (4)

The Holy Spirit is no less the author of spiritual creation or regeneration than the Father and the Son. The excellence of that creation, and wherein it consists. How we are to understand holy Scripture, when it attributes a body or members… On the Holy Spirit (De Spiritu Sancto), Ambrose, On the Holy Spirit, Three Books on the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter VII. ¶1 (5)

Modern West

Our deepest insights must--and should--appear as follies, and under certain circumstances as crimes, when they come unauthorizedly to the ears of those who are not disposed and predestined for them. The exoteric and the esoteric, as they we… Beyond Good and Evil, BGE §30

“Oh, no, of course it doesn’t matter. Forgive me, Alyosha, dear.... You know, I scarcely respected you till now—that is I respected you but on an equal footing; but now I shall begin to respect you on a higher footing. Don’t be angry, dear,… The Brothers Karamazov, Karamazov Pt II, Bk V, ch. I ¶12

Now let us relax the strain, let us interrupt the effort to crowd as much as possible of the past into the present. If the relaxation were complete, there would no longer be either memory or will--which amounts to saying that, in fact, we n… Creative Evolution, Creative Evolution, Chapter III ¶24