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Bundahishn
Chapter XXI (1)
In revelation they mention seventeen species of liquid (mâyâ), as one liquid resides in plants ; second, that which is flowing from the mountains, that is, the rivers; third, that which is rain-water; fourth, that of tanks and other special constructions; fifth, the semen of animals and men; sixth, the urine of animals and men; seventh, the sweat of animals and men; the eighth liquid is that in the skin of animals and men; ninth, the tears of animals and men; tenth, the blood of animals and men; eleventh, the oil in animals and men, a necessary in both worlds; twelfth, the saliva of animals and men, with which they nourish the embryo; the thirteenth is that which is under the bark of plants, as it is said that every bark has a liquid, through which a drop appears on a twig (têkh) when placed four finger-breadths before a fire; fourteenth, the milk of animals and men.
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (104)
The second spirit is the water: As the astringent or harsh quality is the father of the other six spirits, which attracteth or draweth them together,...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (103)
For the seven spirits are the seven head sources or springs, and when Mercurius riseth up therein, that stirreth all, and the bitter quality moveth it...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (26)
But this [third] spirit, or this birth has seven kinds or species, viz. the astringent, the sweet, the bitter, the hot: these four generate the compre...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (87)
This corporeal exsiccation or drying, I call in this book the divine SALITTER, for it is therein [in the seventh fountain spirit of nature] the seed...
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. (9)
For when the seven spirits kindled themselves in their outermost birth or geniture, then they generated such a violent moving spirit; and so the sweet...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 10 (1)
Therefore if there is not sufficient rain, the vital spirits fail from fear that there will be less food. But if there is sufficient rain, the vital s...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (6)
Now the seventh form, or the seventh spirit in the divine power, is nature, or the issue or exit from the other six. For the astringent quality...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (60)
For in the first four qualifying or fountain spirits stands the divine birth or geniture; therefore they must be very earnest and strong also, though ...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (45)
The seven qualifying or fountain spirits have their compacted or incorporated body out of nature, that is, out of the seventh nature-spirit in the...
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. (114)
In that seventh spirit of nature rise up also the heavenly fruits and colours, and whatsoever is apprehensible or comprehensible, and is like to such...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.1)
Verily, of created things here earth is the essence; of earth, water; of water, plants; of plants, flowers; of flowers, fruits; of fruits, man...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (14)
Behold, without the flash all the seven spirits were a dark valley, but when the flash riseth up between the astringent and bitter qualities, in the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 5 (2)
'Water when drunk becomes threefold; its grossest portion becomes water, its middle portion blood, its subtilest portion breath.
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.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 9 (1)
'For this reason is water in the fifth oblation called Man. This germ, covered in the womb, having dwelt there ten months, or more or less, is born.
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (77)
Out of and from the same body of the seven spirits of God are all things made and produced, all angels, all devils, the heaven, the earth, the stars,...
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (20)
II. The second generating is the sweet water, which is also generated out of all the six spirits; for it is the meekness, which is generated out of...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (137)
But seeing the heavenly fruits, before the time of the wrath, sprang up only in this stirring of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, and vanishe...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (81)
In the earth thou canst not trace nor find, besides plants and metals, anything but astringency, bitterness, and water: But the water now therein is...
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