Apocryphote of the Day: 10-2-09

"Labor while you are in this world so that you may live forever."

Liber Graduum 853.14

Apocryphote of the Day: 7-13-09

"The way of the perfect leads to the house of the Lord, and whoever is perfect enters into his bridal chamber."

Liber Graduum 5.13.12

Apocryphote of the Day: 8-6-08

Indeed this path of great commandments leads to the house of the Lord and enters into his bridal chamber.

Liber Graduum 19.36 (fourth century Syrian church handbook)

Apocryphote of the Day: 6-24-08

"If two of you gather together": the "two" are the interior man and the exterior man which unite in observance of precepts...For the inside man is not different from the outside, nor the outside from the inside.

The Book of Steps (Liber Graduum) 792.17-22, 253.23-25 (fourth century Syrian handbook)



Woodcut in M. Maier, Atalanta Fugiens, 1617, Emblem 1: Pregnant man going through alchemical transformation.

Apocryphote of the Day: 6-17-08

"Unless you are converted and become as little children, you will not be as you were before you sinned."

Liber Graduum or The Book of Steps 341.21-24 (fourth century, Syrian handbook to spiritual life)