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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XVI
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Bundahishn
Chapter XVI (2)
When she is cleansed from her menstruation, and when the time for pregnancy has come, always when the seed of the man is the more powerful a son arises from it; when that of the woman is the more powerful, a daughter; when both seeds are equal, twins and triplets.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.17)
Now, in 'case one wishes, 'That a learned (pandita] daughter be born to me! that she may attain the full fength of life I '— they two should have...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.11)
Now, the woman whom one may desire with the thought, 'May she conceive!'— after coming together with her and joining mouth with mouth, he should...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter III (13)
Therefore, there was ordained regarding her who beareth a male or a female child the statute of those days that she should touch no hallowed thing, no...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter III (10)
But in the case of a female child she shall remain in her uncleanness two weeks of days, according to the first two weeks, and sixty-six days in the b...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (90)
Now behold! As in the Deep of this World, through the kindling of the Stars, a Seed is generated out of the Body of the dark Deep, like the...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.23)
When she is about to bring forth, he sprinkles her with water, saying: — 'Like as the wind doth agitate A lotus-pond on every side, So also let thy...
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. (88)
Behold, dost thou know how a Child comes to be Flesh and Blood, and in the End a living Soul? And do you not know that the Tincture of the Mother is...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Third Method of Closing the Womb-Door (32.3)
As above said, the visions of males and females in union will appear. If, at that time, one entereth into the womb through the feelings of attachment...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.14)
In case one wishes, 'That a white son be born to me! that he may be able to repeat a Veda! that he may attain the full length of life! ' — they two...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XVI (4)
And (that) when we returned to her at a set time, she would have conceived a son.
Gospel of Philip
Children and Love (Children and Love)
The children a woman brings forth resembles the man she loves. If it is her husband, they resemble her husband.…
Mundaka Upanishad
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (5)
From him comes Agni (fire), the sun being the fuel; from the moon (Soma) comes rain (Parganya); from the earth herbs; and man gives seed unto the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: On Marriage. (12)
Far more excellent, in my opinion, than the seeds of wheat and barley that are sown at appropriate seasons, is man that is sown, for whom all things...
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 132 (Of the process of gestation)
The servitors bring the two portions the one to the other, and moreover the servitors withhold the blood of all the food of the woman which she will e...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (41)
Now then the feminine Tincture comes in to aid, and strives for the Child, and supposes that it has the Virgin: And the two Tinctures wrestle both of...
Physiology and Human Nature (91c)
Timaeus: And in women again, owing to the same causes, whenever the matrix or womb, as it is called,—which is an indwelling creature desirous of...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (48)
The Seed of Man is generated in such a Manner, as the wonderful Proportion, Harmony, or Form of Nature in its Wrestling and Rising up, is generated...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (24)
For after that Man is figured [or shaped] from the Stars and Elements, by the Fiat, so that the Elements have taken Possession of their Regions, [King...
The Masnavi
The Sufi and the Qazi (74-83)
She became not pregnant save after sexual pleasure, Can a garden bloom without the spring? Pregnant women and their teeming wombs So every tree which...
Gospel of Philip
Children of the Perfect Human (Children of the Perfect Human)
The heavenly person has more children than the earthly person. If the children of Adam are numerous but die, how much more numerous are the children of the perfect human, who do not die but are continually being born.…
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