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Bundahishn
Chapter VIII (4)
Afterwards, about that wonderful shaking out from the earth, they say that a great mountain is the knot of lands; and the passage for the waters within the mountains is the root which is below the mountains; they forsake the upper parts so that they may flow into it, just as the roots of trees pass into the earth; a counterpart (ângunî-aîtak) of the blood in the arteries of men, which gives strength to the whole body.
Mundaka Upanishad
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (9)
Hence come the seas and all the mountains, from him flow the rivers of every kind; hence come all herbs and the juice through which the inner Self...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXIX (17)
And through it the earth was founded upon the water, And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters, From the creation of the wor...
The Masnavi
The Mule and the Camel (51-60)
He saw it was formed of a bright emerald, Forming as it were a ring round the world, He said, "Thou mighty hill, what are other hills? Before thee...
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 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (85)
But when the Lump of the Earth was pressed and compacted together, then thereby the Water came to be squeezed and pressed forth: But where it was incl...
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...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (6)
As water is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. fire. As fire is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. the True. Yes, all these creatures, O son, ...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XIV (5)
There is a mountain there, that once was glad With waters and with leaves, which was called Ida; Now 'tis deserted, as a thing worn out. Rhea once...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka III, Khanda 19 (2)
The silver one became this earth, the golden one the sky, the thick membrane (of the white) the mountains, the thin membrane (of the yoke) the mist...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XVII (7)
I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (103)
The mountains tremble, and the earth, the vast Abyss of sea, and towering height of hills, When on them looks the Sovereign's awful eye:
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (49)
The Head signifies Heaven; the same is grown on the Body, by the Veins, Passages, and proceeding forth of Powers; and so all the Powers come again...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXVI (2)
And there I saw a holy mountain, ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (4)
And in the same manner, my son, as food (earth) too is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. water. And as water too is an offshoot, seek after its r...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (80)
Another Question is, [Note, how God is in all Things, yet no Creature is He.] Why then is the Earth so mountainous, hilly, rocky, stony and uneven? An...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 10 (1)
Therefore if there is not sufficient rain, the vital spirits fail from fear that there will be less food. But if there is sufficient rain, the vital s...
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...
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...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (34)
It is soft, also above measure hard and stony. It is far off, and near at hand, but by the providence of God, invisible. In it are hidden most ample t...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXVI (3)
And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine: in it also ran a stream ⌈underneath⌉ the moun...
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