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Bundahishn
Chapter VIII (3)
At that time they came up from the earth, like a tree which has grown up to the clouds and its root to the bottom; and their root passed on that way from one to the other, and they are arranged in mutual connection.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (39)
Now this was the Tree which stood in the Midst of the Garden in Eden, whereby Adam must be tempted in all Essences; for this Spirit should rule powerf...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXVI (1)
And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed place ⌈in which there were trees⌉ with branches abiding and blooming [of a dism...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIII (4)
And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (17)
In these Words lie the Kernel of the eternal Birth or Geniture hidden or concealed, and cannot be comprehended or apprehended by or with Flesh and Blo...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (7)
Out of the Earth sprung up Grass, Herbs and Trees; and in the Earth, Silver, Gold, and all Manner of Oar came to be; and in the Deep above the Earth...
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (72-81)
Corresponding to that root grow up branches The tops of the perfect trees reach the heavens, The roots firm, and the branches in the sky. Since then...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (22)
For that is called its own Kind, which is received in the Mother's Body or Womb, and is its own by Right of Nature, as its own peculiar Life. [Gen. 1....
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (66)
Do they not all grow out of the Earth? Do they not stand one by another? Does the one grudge the beauteous Form of the other?
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXVII (3)
And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty pla...
Katha Upanishad
Sixth Vallī (1)
'There is that ancient tree, whose roots grow upward and whose branches grow downward;--that indeed is called the Bright, that is called Brahman,...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (52)
For the Creator said: Let the Earth bring forth Grass and Herbs, and Trees bearing Fruit, each according to its Kind. And then each sprung up accordin...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII (5)
That the disturbance which below is made By exhalations of the land and water, (Which far as may be follow after heat,) Might not upon mankind wage...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (65)
And the whole Deity will reveal itself, which is the Day-spring, Dawning, or Morning-redness, and the Breaking-forth of the great Day of God, in which...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (18)
Now then, out of these Forms, out of the Matrix of the Earth, by the Fiat, in the Word, went forth all the Creatures of this World; also Trees,...
Chaldean Oracles
Particular Souls. (92)
One life after another, from widely distributed sources. Passing from above, through to the opposite art; through the Centre of the Earth; and to the...
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 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (5)
We must conceive, that there was then a very pleasant Habitation upon the Earth; for all the Fruits did grow [spring and bud] out of the hidden...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (114)
In that seventh Spirit of Nature rise up also the heavenly Fruits and Colours, and whatsoever is apprehensible or comprehensible, and is like to such...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (16)
So in like manner the Earth and Stones have their Descent; for when the Salitter kindled itself in Nature, then all became very rugged, thick, and dar...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXIX (7)
And from his hand they have proceeded against those who dwell on the earth from that day and for evermore.
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