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Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter III (2)
These three mothers enclose a mighty mystery, most occult and most marvelous, sealed as with six rings, and from them proceed primeval Fire, Water, and Air; these are subsequently differentiated into male and female. At first existed these three mothers, and there arose three masculine powers, and hence all things have originated.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (51)
The three Mothers, א מ ש, enclose a great, wonderful, and unknown mystery, and are sealed by six wings (or elementary circles), namely, air, water, fi...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (53)
The three Mothers, א מ ש, in the universe are: air, water, and fire. Heaven was created from the elementary fire (or ether) ש, the earth, comprising s...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (94)
Now that seed has first a mother, which is the dark chamber of the house of flesh. Secondly, it has a mother, which is the wheel of the seven...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (3)
Father, mother, and child constitute the natural trinity. The Mysteries glorified the home as the supreme institution consisting of this trinity...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (32)
Earth was the female element and water the male element, and from the fire and the æther they received their spirits, and Nature produced bodies after...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (17)
In such wise than, as I have said, the generation of these seven came to pass. Earth was as woman, her Water filled with longing; ripeness she took...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (16)
Now when the Heaven became clear [or pure,] and cleansed from the Earth and the dark Mist [or Dust] in the Concretion [or Driving together,] then in...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (97)
But when the third mother is kindled in the light, then it stands in the created heaven of the holy life, and shineth through the second mother, the s...
Paraphrase of Shem
Darkness Ejaculates Mind into the Womb of Nature (2)
They became clouds that varied in their appearance. They were called hymen, afterbirth, power, and water. And the hymen and the afterbirth and the pow...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Tree of the Sephiroth (66)
From this eternal and ancient androgyne--Kether--come forth Chochmah, the great Father, and Binah, the great Mother. These two are usually referred...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (9)
Men call their ruling Fate.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (42)
Therefore now the Mother of the Water desires with great Earnestness the Mother of the Fire, and seeks the Child of Love; and the Mother of the Fire s...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (104)
The second spirit is the water: As the astringent or harsh quality is the father of the other six spirits, which attracteth or draweth them together,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 5: Of the Third Principle, or Creation of the material World, with the Stars and Elements; wherein the First and Second Principles are more clearly understood. (8)
Thus now if we will speak of the third Principle, viz. of the Beginning and Birth of this World, then we must consider the Root of the Genetrix,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (1)
IF we consider the Separation and the Springing forth in the third Principle of this World, how the starry Heaven should spring up, and how every...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (67)
The three elements, fire, air and water, have a threefold moving or qualification, but proceed from one body; and consider, the fire or heat swells...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Pythagorean Mathematics (111)
The sacredness of the triad and its symbol--the triangle--is derived from the fact that it is made up of the monad and the duad. The monad is the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (97)
The first elements are air, water, and fire; the fire is above, the water is below, and a breath of air establishes balance between them. The token is...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (33)
For every Creature looks but into its Mother that is fixed [or predominant] in it. The material Creature sees a material Substance, but an immaterial ...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (95)
But the seed which so qualifieth is that seed alone in which the light is kindled: in that in which the wrath-fire burneth, there this third mother re...
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