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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XVIII
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Bundahishn
Chapter XVIII (6)
This, too, is said, that those fish are so serpent-like in that deep water, they know the scratch (mâlisn) of a needle's point by which the water shall increase, or by which it is diminishing.
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto VII (6)
Beneath the water people are who sigh And make this water bubble at the surface, As the eye tells thee wheresoe'er it turns. Fixed in the mire they...
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...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXVII (11)
And those same waters will undergo a change in those days; for when those angels are punished in these waters, these water-springs shall change their ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Sophistical Arts Useless. (7)
Accordingly I wholly approve of the tragedy, when it says: "O son, false words can be well spoken, And truth may be vanquished by beauty of words.
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (62)
He has enough to do to protect himself from the water; and yet nevertheless he is assaulted by the devils.
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. (14)
For behold, the deep between heaven and earth is also incomprehensible, and yet the elementary qualities sometimes generate living comprehensible fles...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: The Mystical Meanings in the Proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music. (21)
"And the choir of mute fishes rushed to it," says the Tragic Muse somewhere.
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXII (5)
But let the Malebranche cease a little, So that these may not their revenges fear, And I, down sitting in this very place, For one that I am will make...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XIV (2)
Curs findeth it thereafter, coming downward, More snarling than their puissance demands, And turns from them disdainfully its muzzle.
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 6: The Inconceivable Liberation (15)
He can also put the four great oceans that surround Sumeru in a pore without causing inconvenience to fishes, water tortoises, sea-turtles,...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (36)
But seeing the wrath also is in that water in the deep above the earth, therefore constantly, through the kindling of the stars, and of the water in t...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLIII B (1)
O ye snarers (?), O ye fowlers, O ye fishers, sons of their fathers, know ye what I do know, the name of this very great net: the embracer is its name
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (14)
Some are of the quality of the water, and those are light, like the holy heaven; and when the light shineth on them, then they look like to a...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (87)
For the thin water seeketh for the valley, and is a humility of the life, which did not exalt itself, as the astringent and the bitter qualities, and ...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXLIX (61)
There is a serpent belonging to it, who comes from the two wells at Elephantine, at the gate of the water. He goes with the water, and stops at the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (3)
The early philosophers and scientists, realizing that all life has its origin in water, chose the fish as the symbol of the life germ. The fact that...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXI (3)
Here swims one otherwise than in the Serchio; Therefore, if for our gaffs thou wishest not, Do not uplift thyself above the pitch." They seized him...
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (Summary)
This story, which is taken from the book of Kalila and Damnah, is as follows. There was in a secluded place a lake, which was fed by a running...
Chuang Tzu
Transcendental Bliss. (1)
In the northern ocean there is a fish, called the Leviathan, many thousand li in size. This leviathan changes into a bird, called the Rukh, whose...
Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (14)
For if we are caught in a single net, it will suck us down into its mouth, while the water flows over us, striking our face. And we will be taken down...
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