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Book of Enoch
Chapter V (5:1)
Observe ⌈⌈ye⌉⌉ how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed ⌈and know⌉ with regard to all ⌈His works⌉, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXII. Parables: the Fig Tree in Leaf, Absent Householder and the House Servants, Virgins Wise and Virgins Foolish—"watch and Pray" (1)
NOW learn a parable of the fig tree: Behold the fig tree when her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves; and behold the trees when they now...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (41)
View this world diligently, and consider what manner of fruit, sprouts, and branches grow out of the Salitter of the earth, from trees, plants,...
The Masnavi
Moses and Pharaoh. 1 (61-70)
Here at His command wisdom was shed down like rain, Clouds and sun, and moon and lofty stars, All come and go in obedience to His ordinance; No one...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VII (35)
And behold, ye will go and build for yourselves cities, and plant in them all the plants that are upon the earth, and moreover all fruit-bearing trees...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (82)
Here, O man, consider thyself well, and mind what manner of seed thou sowest into the earth, the very same will spring up, and bear blossoms and...
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (91-100)
Yet what is the nearness of that green branch, Wherefrom thou eatest ripe fruits? But as for the dry branch) from its nearness to the sun, What does i...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (27)
For thou seest plainly how all the fruits of the earth, whatsoever it bringeth forth, must putrefy and rot; also that they are a death.
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (7)
Behold and consider a tree: On the outside it has a hard, gross rind or bark, which is dead, benumbed, and without vegetation—yet not quite dead, but...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (18)
But now is it written here, God sprach (said), Let the earth bring forth grass, and herbs, and fruitful trees. Observe here:
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (22)
And when God had placed Man in the Garden, he commanded him, and said; You shall eat of every Tree in the Garden, but of the Tree of Knowledge of Good...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XIII (6)
And he saw. and behold, the land was very wide and good, and everything grew thereon — vines and figs and pomegranates, oaks and ilexes, and terebinth...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (47)
For in the divine pomp go forth likewise all manner of sprouting and vegetation of trees, plants and all manner of fruit; and every one bears its own ...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (54)
Wilt thou not believe this? Then open thy eyes, and go to a tree, look upon it, and bethink thyself; there you see first the whole tree, take a knife...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (81)
Thus is the true springing or vegetation in nature, be it in man, beast, wood, herbs or stones. Now observe the End of Nature in this World.
The Masnavi
The People of Saba (23-33)
Keep telling forever a stone to become a ruby, Keep telling forever the old to become young! Tell earth to assume the quality of water, Bid water to...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (59)
O, dear man, view thyself for a while in this looking-glass; thou wilt find it more largely to be read of concerning the creation of man. This I set...
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. (11)
You shall find no Book wherein the divine Wisdom may be more searched into, and found, than when you walk in a flowery fresh springing Meadow, there y...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (6)
If thou would'st see Him too through things that suffer death, both on the earth and in the deep, think of a man's being fashioned in the womb, my...
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (172-181)
Draw their sustenance from Him, both winter and summer. Every moment this heaven cries to Him, saying, "O Lord, quit not Thy hold of me for a moment!...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (79)
But if thou sayest that there is no life in the earth, thou speakest as one that is blind; for thou may see plainly that herbs and grass grow out of i...
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