The Lord

Now that it has been plainly shown, as I think, how it is to be understood that the Greeks were called thieves by the Lord, I willingly leave aside the doctrines of the philosophers.

The Lord, then, into whom we have been transplanted, is light and the true knowledge.

For the Lord enjoined us to work for the food that abides unto eternity, and somewhere the prophet says, "Blessed is he who sows beside every water, where the ox and the ass tread" — the people gathered out of the law and out of the Gentiles into the one faith.

Among these, the Lord (Īśvara), the omniscient supreme self, is just one;

Denotative power (śakti) is the convention of the Lord, 'from this word this meaning is to be understood.

Having set the Lord of the Universe in my heart and having paid homage to my teacher, this maṅgalācaraṇa (auspicious opening invocation) is composed:

But if all the names applied to the divine nature are of equal force with one another in pointing to the subject, leading our mind to the same thing under different emphases, what argument is it that grants the Spirit fellowship with Father and Son in the other names, but fences it off from the Godhead alone?

in the case of the Father they consent that he is God, and that the Son likewise is honoured with the name of Godhead, but the Spirit, when numbered with Father and Son, they no longer include in the conception of Godhead;

And let no one assign in a special way the sanctifying authority to the operation of the Spirit, having heard the Saviour in the Gospel saying to the Father concerning the disciples, "Father, sanctify them in your name.

"But I beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto Him, that you be not soon moved in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word" — of pseudo-prophets, namely — "nor by epistle" — of pseudo-apostles, namely — "as though by ours, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.

This very seat of the flesh, the citadel of the soul, the Lord too marks for the reproof of thoughts:

For since the times of the whole hope have been fixed by the sacrosanct pen, and it is not lawful for it to be established before the coming, I think, of Christ — our prayers sigh for the setting of this present age, for the passing of the world too unto the great day of the Lord, the day of wrath and retribution, the last and hidden day, known to none but the Father, and yet foremarked by signs a …

That mighty city, which presides over the seven mountains and the many waters, deserved from the Lord the appellation of a harlot.

" We all know it—provided, however, we recall what the same God has said through the Apostle:

Lord Īśvara is called the charioteer, who commands the ox to pull the cart.

All the sins of the master of yoga, along with all the latencies, are burned by the Lord in the fire of Śiva (*śivāgni*).

He knows the knowledge that is clear and pure, which is the seat of the Lord within the body.