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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XVIII
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Bundahishn
Chapter XVIII (4)
And together with the lizard those fish are spiritually fed, that is, no food is necessary for them; and till the renovation of the universe they remain in contention.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: Prayers and Praise From A Pure Mind, Ceaselessly Offered, Far Better Than Sacrifices. (20)
Accordingly such food, in order to clear understanding, is to be rejected. Wherefore also the Egyptians, in the purifications practised among them,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: Prayers and Praise From A Pure Mind, Ceaselessly Offered, Far Better Than Sacrifices. (8)
Accordingly, they will represent Him as nourished without desire like a plant, and like beasts that burrow. They say that these grow innoxiously, nour...
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,...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (120)
Their food is abomination, and grows from the fierceness of all qualities: Lamentation and woe, and that for ever without end; there is no time...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 5 (1.5.1)
When the Father produced by intellect And austenty seven kinds of food, One of his [foods] was common to all, Of two he let the gods partake, Three...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (39)
Now then if the Beast's [or Animal's Nature] was merely out of a Lump of Earth, then they would eat Earth; but feeling fit is proceeded out of the...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (39)
But hearken, Friend, tarry yet a little while, and then give the bestial body for food to the worms: But when the total God shall kindle the seven spi...
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...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (48)
Those fruits are not of so dead, hard, bitter, sour and astringent a relish for food; nor do they rot and grow stinking, as those in this world do,...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CVIII (9)
Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (1.3.17)
Then it [i.e. breath] sang out food for itself, for what- ever food is eaten is eaten by it. Hereon one is established. 1 8. Those gods said: c Of...
On the Mysteries
V, Chapter IV (1)
For those who worship the Gods do not abstain from animals, lest the Gods should be defiled by the vapours arising from them. For what exhalation from...
Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (15)
In this very way we exist in this world, like fish. The adversary spies on us, lying in wait for us like a fisherman, wishing to seize us, rejoicing...
Physiology and Human Nature (92b)
Timaeus: And the fourth kind, which lives in the water, came from the most utterly thoughtless and stupid of men, whom those that remolded them...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (15)
There the Soul eats of all the Words of God; for the same are the Food of its Life; and it sings the paradisical i Songs of Praise concerning the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 23: Of the highly precious Testaments of Christ, viz. Baptism and his last Supper, which he held in the Evening of Maundy- Thursday with his Disciples; which he left us for his Last [Will,] as a Farewell for a Remembrance. The most noble Gate of Christianity. (7)
Now if the Soul eats of the clear Deity, what [Food] has the Body then? For thou knowest that the Soul and the Body are not one and the same Thing;...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXI (5)
And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth, And those who have been destroyed by the desert, And those who have been d...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (9)
The fish has been used as an emblem of damnation; but among the Chinese it typified contentment and good fortune, and fishes appear on many of their...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXIV (12)
He is delivered from the fiend-serpent with a burning mouth. His soul will not be imprisoned like a bird; he will be lord of those around him, and he...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (83)
The body taketh its food from the seed of the seven spirits of God in the body of the great deep, which [body] is fire, air, water and earth.
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