λόγος logos

Mesopotamia & Egypt

women is emphatic. Have nothing to do with women in other people’s houses under any consideration. Their pretty limbs make fools of men, but they are found to be harder than quartzite sandstone ; the pleasure they give is only momentary, an… Instruction of Amenemope (with other Egyptian wisdom texts), Budge 1924 p.9 ¶18

India

20 “These two things, mendicants, lead to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching. What two? The words and phrases are misplaced, and the meaning is misinterpreted. When the words and phrases are misplaced, the meaning is misinte… Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses), AN2.20 1

These be my lower Nature; learn the higher, Whereby, thou Valiant One! this Universe Is, by its principle of life, produced; Whereby the worlds of visible things are born As from a Yoni. Know! I am that womb: I make and I unmake this Univer… Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gita 7 (Arnold) ¶2

China & Japan

The Master said, 'Can men refuse to assent to the words of strict admonition? But it is reforming the conduct because of them which is valuable. Can men refuse to be pleased with words of gentle advice? But it is unfolding their aim which i… Analects, Analects 9.25

Persia & Islam

undertaken this work, which he has entitled, The Alchemy of Happiness. Now the treasuries of God, in which this alchemy is to be sought, are the hearts of the prophets, and he who seeks it elsewhere will be disappointed and bankrupt on the … The Alchemy of Happiness (Kimiya-yi Sa'adat), Alchemy p.18 ¶11

Hebrew & Jewish

As for the things that came to pass in his time, they were written in former times, concerning those that sinned, and did wickedly against the Lord above all people and kingdoms, and how they grieved him exceedingly, so that the words of th… Apocrypha (Deuterocanonical books: Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, Maccabees, ...), 1 Esdras 1:24

After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward. The Bible (Old and New Testaments), Genesis 15:1

Greek & Roman

He said; and, rising at the word, he threw Two pond’rous gauntlets down in open view; Gauntlets which Eryx wont in fight to wield, And sheathe his hands with in the listed field. With fear and wonder seiz’d, the crowd beholds The gloves of … The Aeneid, Aeneid (Dryden), Book V ¶24

CHORUS. True is the word thou spakest of my garb; But speak I unto thee as citizen, Or Hermes’ wandbearer, or chieftain king? Aeschylus: Tragedies (Oresteia, Prometheus Bound, etc.), Aeschylus The Suppliant Maidens ¶11

as theirs are, nor carefully arranged, but you will hear things said at random with the words that happen to occur to me. For I trust that what I say is just; and let none of you expect anything else. For surely it would not be fitting for … Apology of Socrates, Apology 17c

Hidden streams

Author of "The Kabbalah Unveiled,” “ The Key of Solomon,’ “The Tarot,” etc. with a special and copious Introduction and Explanatory Notes by the Translator, and numerous Magical Squares of Letters. LONDON: JOHN M. WATKINS, 26 Charing Cross,… The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, Abramelin ¶2

Christian

The author distinguishes the faith from the errors of Pagans, Jews, and Heretics, and after explaining the significance of the names "God" and "Lord," shows clearly the difference of Persons in Unity of Essence. In dividing the Essence, the… Exposition of the Christian Faith (De fide, to Gratian), Ambrose, On the Christian Faith, Prefatory Note, Chapter I. ¶1

12. But you read in another place: "Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given." In the word Child is an indication of age, in that of Son the fulness of the Godhead. Made of His mother, born of the Father yet the Same Person was both … 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 I. ¶11

7. Let us hearken, then, to the master of precaution: "I said, I will take heed to my ways;" that is, "I said to myself: in the silent biddings of my thoughts, I have enjoined upon myself, that I should take heed to my ways." Some ways ther… On the Duties of the Clergy (De officiis ministrorum), Ambrose, Duties of the Clergy, Three Books on the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter II. ¶3

Modern West

OF MISSIONS AND REVELATIONS. Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apos… The Age of Reason, Age of Reason Part I, Chapter 2 ¶1

To pass from theological, and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear, and round dealing, is the honor of man's nature; and that mixture of falsehoods, is … Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral, Bacon Of Truth ¶3

How malicious philosophers can be! I know of nothing more stinging than the joke Epicurus took the liberty of making on Plato and the Platonists; he called them Dionysiokolakes. In its original sense, and on the face of it, the word signifi… Beyond Good and Evil, BGE §7