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Bundahishn
Chapter I (28)
Of Aûharmazd's creatures of the world, the first was the sky; the second, water; the third, earth; the fourth, plants; the fifth, animals; the sixth, mankind.
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 44 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (4)
This I ask Thee, O Ahura! tell me aright, who from beneath hath sustained the earth and the clouds above that they do not fall? Who made the waters...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies: Which Have Influenced Modern Masonic Symbolism (43)
According to the Persians, there coexisted in eternity two principles. The first of these, Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, was the Spirit of Good. From...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 44 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (3)
This I ask Thee, O Ahura! tell me aright: Who by generation was the first father of the Righteous Order (within the world)? Who gave the (recurring)...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 31 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (8)
Therefore , as the first did I conceive of Thee, O Ahura Mazda! as the one to be adored with the mind in the creation, as the Father of the Good Mind ...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 31 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (11)
Yet the opposer speaks beside Thee.) For when first, O Ahura Mazda! Thou didst create the (holy) settlements, and didst reveal the religious laws ; an...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter II (2)
He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before Him — the angels of the presence, and the a...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter II (11)
And on the fifth day l He created great sea monsters in the depths of the waters, for these were the first things of flesh that were created by His ha...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 30 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (7)
Upon this Âramaiti (the personified Piety of the saints) approached, and with her came the Sovereign Power, the Good Mind, and the Righteous Order....
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...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (33)
Primordial water He extracted from the air. He formed therein twenty-two letters and established them out of mud and loam, making them like a border, ...
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. (6)
Now when God on the first Day had gathered together the Lump of the Earth in the great Deep of this World, then the Deep became purified, yet [the...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 31 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (7)
(For He has sovereign control.) He who conceived of these (truths of the Mãthra) as their first (inspirer), (and as He thought their existence they...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 47 — Spenta Mainyu Gatha (2)
Aye, (that blessedness, which is the) best (creation) of this most bounteous spirit, Ahura Mazda will bring forth in action with words from the mouth...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (68)
But when, in these two days, the creation of heaven and of earth was completed, and the heaven was made in the heart of the water, for a difference or...
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...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (27)
Substance could not bestow Reason, for Reason had ascended out of it. The air produced flying things and the waters such as swim. The earth conceived ...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.1)
Verily, of created things here earth is the essence; of earth, water; of water, plants; of plants, flowers; of flowers, fruits; of fruits, man...