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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter X
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Bundahishn
Chapter X (4)
The dwelling (mânîst) of the birds is in the air, and the fish are in the midst of the water.
Asclepius
Section VI (2)
He tills the Earth. He mingles with the Elements by reason of the swiftness of his mind. He plunges into the Sea’s depths by means of its profundity. ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (5)
And the representation of the earth contains men, cattle, reptiles, wild beasts; and of the inhabitants of the water, fishes and whales; and again, of...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 2 (3)
Then they also assigned homes to the birds big and small. "You shall live in the trees and in the vines. There you shall make your nests; there you...
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (10-18)
Thou art a duck, and flourishest on land and water, And dost not, like a domestic fowl, dig up the house. Thou art a king of "the sons of Adam...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (81-90)
He learned birds' language from "what we were taught." But thou art only a bird of the air; understand then That thou hast never seen the true...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Elements and Their Inhabitants (44)
"And upon the earth are animals and men, some in a middle region, others (elementals] dwelling about the air as we dwell about the sea; others in...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (104)
So existeth the spirit in birds, fowls and worms also; and all has its threefold source in similitude to the Ternary in the Deity.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: Some Points in the Beatitudes. (4)
For not riches only, but also honour, and marriage, and poverty, have ten thousand cares for him who is unfit for them.
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (22)
Water also springeth in every living and moving creature in this world. In the water consisteth the body of everything, as the spirit consisteth in...
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (20)
Observe this too, my son; that each one of the other lives inhabiteth one portion of the Cosmos - aquatic creatures water, terrene earth, and aery...
Chaldean Oracles
Particular Souls. (95)
For thy vessel the beasts of the Earth shalt in habit.
The Conference of the Birds
The Duck (1)
Timidly the Duck came out of the water and went up to the assembly, dressed in his finest robe, ' No one has ever spoken to a creature prettier or...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (1)
WHEN man beholdeth the deep above the earth he seeth nothing but stars, and clouds of water, and then he thinketh, Sure there must be another place,...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (169)
IV. The birds or fowls, fishes and beasts, signify and denote the several forms or shapes of figures in heaven.
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (19-27)
Hence thou goest both upon earth and on heaven." Hence to outward view "He is a man like you," While to his sharp-seeing heart "it hath been...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LX (22)
For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore there is a ...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LX (20)
And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and ...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (173)
Therefore also the creatures, as beasts, fowls or birds, fishes and worms in this world, are not created to an eternal being, but to a transitory one,...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 2 (2)
Promptly the deer and the birds were created. immediately they gave homes to the deer and the birds. "You, deer, shall sleep in the fields by the rive...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (92-101)
Sound the note of every bird that draws near; When God sent, thee to the birds, To the predestinarian bird talk predestination, To the bird with...
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