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Passages similar to: Bundahishn — Chapter XVIII
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Bundahishn
Chapter XVIII (8)
This, too, is said, that the creatures of the waters live also specially under its guardianship.
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...
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...
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...
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 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (75)
They contain also all the creatures both in heaven and in this world; and all the creatures in heaven and in this world are imaged, fashioned or...
Chaldean Oracles
And Daemons. (76)
The Aquatic when applied to Divine Natures signifies a Government inseparable from Water, and hence the Oracle calls the Aquatic Gods, Water Walkers.
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...
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 ...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (26)
The water also has a fierce deadly spring, for it killeth and consumeth; and so all things that have a life and being must rot and perish in the...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 2 (1)
Then they made the small wild animals, the guardians of the woods, the spirits of the mountains, the deer, the birds, pumas, jaguars, serpents,...
Chaldean Oracles
Particular Souls. (95)
For thy vessel the beasts of the Earth shalt in habit.
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (2)
All the creatures are made and descended from these qualities, and live therein as in their mother; and the earth and stones descend or proceed from...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (57)
For this is the water of life, wherein the love, in God as also in angels and in men, generateth itself: For it is all of one sort of power, virtue an...
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...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (2)
Every existing creature manifests some aspect of the intelligence or power of the Eternal One, who can never be known save through a study and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (15)
Now observe, the Heaven is the whole Deep so far as the Ethera, or Skies have given up themselves to the Birth of this World, and that Heaven is the...
Chaldean Oracles
Particular Souls. (93)
Water is a symbol of life; hence Plato and the gods before Plato, call it (the Soul) at one time the whole water of vivification, and at another time...
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. (34)
When God had finished this on the fourth Day, he saw it, and considered it, and it was good, as Moses writes. Then God desired in his external Will,...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (67)
Moreover, thou art to know also, that the regimen or dominion of the seven spirits of God in the house of this world is not on that account exsiccated...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CL (12)
13. The surface of the water, the god in it is the mighty power
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