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The Laws of Vayu (As Leis de Vayu) — Complete English Translation
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Martinez de PasquallyMartinism / Élus Coëns · c. 1727–1774 CEgrounds · high
Read the original · archive.org ↗PlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEgrounds · high
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
ProclusNeoplatonism · 412–485 CEgrounds · medium
Read the original · archive.org ↗Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)
The Upanishads, Part I (SBE Vol. 1)Hindu / Vedanta (Sruti) · c. 800–400 BCE; SBE 1879parallels · high
“Now that which is that subtle essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Khandogya-Upanishad VI.8.7 ('Tat tvam asi') — trans. F. Max Muller, SBE Vol. 1 (1879)