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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.
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (7)
Out of the earth sprang up grass, herbs and trees; and in the earth, silver, gold, and all manner of ores came to be; and in the deep above the earth...
Sefer HaBahir
Verses (119)
He said to him: [It is] the powers/kochot of the Holy One, this on back of this, and they resemble/domin a tree: just as this tree, by means of the wa...
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 lies hidden or concealed the kernel of the eternal birth or geniture, and it cannot be comprehended or apprehended by or with flesh and...
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...
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. (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.
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?
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 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 dark...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (33)
In that same power grows up and is generated fruit according to every quality and species or kind, viz. heavenly trees and plants, which without...
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,...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (25)
And now as the whole earth was, together with the word, so was the fruit also; but the word remained in the centre of the heaven, which is also in thi...
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...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (67)
Does it not afford its sap to that as well as to the others?
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (60)
For as, when wood is kindled, the body of the fire generateth itself, in such a manner likewise is the wood generated in and above the earth.
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 Dayspring, Dawning, or Morning- redness, and the breakingforth of the great day of God, in which ...
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