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Bundahishn
Chapter XXIII (1)
On the nature of the ape and the bear they say, that Yim, when reason (nismô) departed from, him, for fear of the demons took a demoness as wife, and gave Yimak, who was his sister, to a demon as wife; and from them have originated the tailed ape and bear and other species of degeneracy.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (44)
According to the Mysteries, the monkey represents the condition of man before the rational soul entered into his constitution. Therefore it typifies...
Apocryphon of John
Yaldabaoth Defiles Eve (Yaldabaoth Defiles Eve)
When Yaldabaoth realized that the humans had withdrawn from him, he cursed his earth. He found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband.…
Physiology and Human Nature (91e)
Timaeus: And the wild species of animal that goes on foot is derived from those men who have paid no attention at all to philosophy nor studied at...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (10)
ANSWER: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them was born a whit...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (1.4.4)
Come, let me hide myself/ She became a cow. He became a bull. With her he did indeed copulate. Then cattle were born. She became a mare, he a stallion...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Planes of Consciousness (49)
In thinking of Man, we must remember that primitive human beings—little removed from the apes—are as much Man as is the highest individual of the...
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. (8)
There is nothing so deep that Man cannot search into, and see it most assuredly, if he does but put away the Vail, and look (through the Tables graven...
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. (43)
Now God said, Let all Manner of Beasts come forth, every one after its Kind; and so there came forth out of the Essence of every one's kind, a Male...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (32)
Earth was the female element and water the male element, and from the fire and the æther they received their spirits, and Nature produced bodies after...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (8)
There are also legends to the effect that long before the appearance of human beings there existed a race or species of composite creatures which was...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (27)
Substance could not bestow Reason, for Reason had ascended out of it. The air produced flying things and the waters such as swim. The earth conceived ...
Chuang Tzu
Perfect Happiness. (8)
When they reach the junction of the land and the water, they become lichen. Spreading up the bank, they become the dog-tooth violet. Reaching rich soi...
Asclepius
Section V (2)
Whoever of the daimons, then, transcending their own genus, are, by chance, united with a species, by reason of the neighbourhood of any species of...
Physiology and Human Nature (77a)
Timaeus: it was so that of necessity its life consisted in fire and air; and because of this it wasted away when dissolved by these elements or left...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (18)
Now listen to the rest of the discourse (Logos) which thou dost long to hear. The period being ended, the bond that bound them all was loosened by...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (80)
Now when Adam and his Wife had eaten of the earthly Fruit, then they were ashamed one of another, for they perceived the bestial Members for...
Gospel of Philip
Two Trees in Paradise (Two Trees in Paradise)
There are two trees growing in paradise. One produces [animals] and the other produces people.…
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...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (92)
For the Host or Army of Lucifer had kindled the Saltiter of the Stars and of the Earth, and half killed, spoiled and destroyed it.
Hypostasis of the Archons
ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN (ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN)
The authorities came up to their Adam. When they saw his female partner speaking with him, they became very excited and enamored of her.…
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