Mystical Scriptures

Theologia Mystica

"The Deity existing in the Globe of Eternity is nothing else but a Spirit of Eternity; and this Spirit of Eternity is an uncreated Essence."

Pensées

"The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason."

The Isle of Man

"The understanding is the eye of the soul, and as the eye by its native light discerneth visible things, so the understanding discerneth spiritual things."

English Hexapla

"The Word made manifest in six English voices, that by comparing them the spirit of the text might speak more clearly."

Conversations with Children on the Gospels

"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses."

The Advancement of Learning

"The duties of life are more than life. And if I die now I shall die before the world be weary of me, which in our times is somewhat rare."

Meditations

"We are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another is contrary to nature."

Revelations

"I am the Creator of the heavens and the earth. I assumed flesh without sin, by entering the womb of the Virgin like the sun shining through the clearest gem."

The Light of the World

"I must speak. God compels me to declare what He has shown me concerning the restoration of true Christianity upon the earth."

Metaphysics

"All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves."

Heaven and Hell

"All perfection increases toward interiors and decreases toward exteriors, because interior things are nearer to the Divine and are purer in themselves."

The Ascent of the Mind to God

"Whatever is in me was made by God, and wholly belongs to God. If I ask about my nature, I find that I am the image of God."

The Laws of Menu

"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin."

Apology for the True Christian Divinity

"The testimony of the Spirit is that alone by which the true knowledge of God hath been, is, and can be only revealed."

Enchiridion

"Some things are in our control and others not. In our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and in a word, whatever are our own actions."

Opus Majus

"There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions but does not cause certainty unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience."

An Introduction to a Devout Life

"A true stedfast soul may live in the world untainted by worldly breath, finding a well-spring of holy piety amid the bitter waves of society."

The Imitation of Christ

"I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone."

The Desatir

"The roads tending to God are more in number than the breathings of created beings."

Signatura Rerum

"Man is the great Mystery of God, the microcosm, or the complete Abridgment of the whole Universe: He is God's Masterpiece, a living Emblem and Hieroglyphic of Eternity and Time."

The Way to the Sabbath of Rest

"It hath pleased the Lord to take his Servant up into that Rest, whereof so many Years ago he had given him so ravishing a Pisgah sight."

A Short and Easy Method of Prayer

"The whole secret of finding God consists in seeking Him in our own heart. He is nearer to us than we are to ourselves."

On the Mysteries

"From the immense principle of principles, in which all things causally subsist, absorbed in superessential light, a beauteous progeny of principles proceed, all stamped with the occult characters of deity."

Record of a School

"Education depends on our faith that souls exist, and that the laws of the soul can be so clearly discerned as to furnish a satisfactory rule for its progress."

Revelations of Divine Love

"Sin is behovable, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."

Select Works

"Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful."