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Bundahishn
Chapter XXVII (11)
Whatever sweet-scented blossom arises at various seasons through the hand-labour of men, or has a perennial root and blossoms in its season with new shoots and sweet-scented blossoms, as the rose, the narcissus, the jasmine, the dog-rose (nêstarûn), the tulip, the colocynth (kavastîk), the pandanus (kêdi), the kamba, the ox-eye (hêri), the crocus, the swallow-wort (zarda), the violet, the kârda, and others of this genus, they call a flower (gûl).
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IX: On the Different Kinds of Cause. (24)
For the rose has not the same kind of sweet fragrance as myrrh.
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (55)
Sandal-wood or Tagara, a lotus-flower, or a Vassikî, among these sorts of perfumes, the perfume of virtue is unsurpassed.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (5)
Flowers were chosen as symbols for many reasons. The great variety of flora made it possible to find some plant or flower which would be a suitable...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (8)
Of all symbolic flowers the locus blossom of India and Egypt and the rose of the Rosicrucians are the most important. In their symbolism these two...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (23)
There spring up also in these Powers and Virtues, all Manner of Blossoms and Flowers, with fair Heavenly Colours and Smells.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXIV (4)
And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragran...
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (54)
The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind, nor (that of) sandal-wood, or of Tagara and Mallikâ flowers; but the odour of good people...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXIII (4)
There is the Rose in which the Word Divine Became incarnate; there the lilies are By whose perfume the good way was discovered." Thus Beatrice; and...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXII (16)
And these are the signs of the days which are to be seen on earth in the days of his dominion: sweat, and heat, and calms; and all the trees bear frui...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (95)
And when this sweet Mother has brought forth the fair, green, blue, white, red, and yellow Flowers, Blossoms or Children, then she grows quite weary, ...
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (LV - Adonis)
The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS. MUCH-nam'd, and best of dæmons, hear my pray'r, The desart-loving, deck'd with tender hair; Joy to diffuse, by all...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXI (1)
And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were ⌈groves of⌉ trees, and there flowed forth from them nectar, which is named sarara and galbanum.
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (52)
But, like a beautiful flower, full of colour and full of scent, are the fine and fruitful words of him who acts accordingly.
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (87)
Like little Children, when they go in May to gather Flowers, where many often meet together, there they talk and confer friendly, and pluck or gather...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (47)
This Herb, which I mean here, from whose Fragrance my Spirit takes its Refreshing, every Country Ploughman does not know it, nor every Doctor, the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (6)
The plant might also be considered worthy of veneration because from its crushed leaves, petals, stalks, or roots could be extracted healing...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLIII B (8)
Know ye what I do know, the name of its flowers: the feathers of the hawk
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 2 (6)
'And he who desires the world of perfumes and garlands (gandhamâlya), by his mere will perfumes and garlands come to him, and having obtained the...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXII (4)
⌈That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are⌉ like (those of) the Carob tree: and its fruit is like the clusters of the vine, very...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 7: Looking at Living Beings (27)
The heavenly maiden said: “ Thou shouldst not deem these flowers unlawful. And why? These flowers discriminate not between one thing', and another;...
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