The Gnosis of Philo – Part 2

Philo of Alexandria:
I. (1) There was once a time when, devoting my leisure to philosophy and to the contemplation of the world and the things in it, I reaped the fruit of excellent, and desirable, and blessed intellectual feelings, being always living among the divine oracles and doctrines, on which I fed incessantly and insatiably, [...]

The Gnosis of Philo

From Philo of Alexandria:
(34) I am not ashamed to relate what has happened to me myself, which I know from having experienced it ten thousand times. Sometimes, when I have desired to come to my usual employment of writing on the doctrines of philosophy, though I have known accurately what it was proper to set [...]

Philo – On Wisdom

Philo – De migr Abr 8.38-8.42
VIII. …
(38) …On this account I have before mentioned, that the then prophets were called seers; [1Samuel 9:9.] and Jacob, the practicer of virtue, was desirous to give his ears in exchange for his eyes, if he could only see what he had previously heard described, and accordingly he receives [...]

Philo – On the Cherubim and the Flaming Sword

Philo – On the Cherubim
IX. (27) I have also, on one occasion, heard a more ingenious train of reasoning from my own soul, which was accustomed frequently to be seized with a certain divine inspiration, even concerning matters which it could not explain even to itself; which now, if I am able to remember it [...]

Philo on Inspiration – De migr Abr 7

Philo – On the Migration of Abraham 7.34-7.35
VII. …

(34) I am not ashamed to relate what has happened to me myself, which I know from having experienced it ten thousand times. Sometimes, when I have desired to come to my usual employment of writing on the doctrines of philosophy, though I have [...]