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Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIII (93:14)
Or is there any one who could discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height, and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where all the luminaries rest?]
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (4)
Some b Naturalists or Artists have undertaken to measure that Height and Distance, and have produced many strange and monstrous Devices. Indeed,...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (3)
Who is the One who watcheth o'er that order? For every order hath its boundaries marked out by place and number. The sun's the greatest god of gods in...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (14)
When we behold Heaven and the Stars, then we behold his eternal Power and Wisdom: So many Stars as stand in the whole Heaven, which are innumerable...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (21)
But how deep or how large the Place of this World is, no Man knows, though some natural Philosophers, Mathematicians, Astronomers, or Astrologers have...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (5)
Would that it were possible for thee to get thee wings, and soar into the air, and, poised midway 'tween earth and heaven, behold the earth's...
Enuma Elish
Tablet IV (141)
He passed through the heavens, he surveyed the regions (thereof
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of Self (15)
An astronomer who, by his knowledge, can map the stars and describe their courses, derives more pleasure from his knowledge than the chess player...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XIX (25)
And these shall serve To lay the foundations of the heaven, And to strengthen the earth, And to renew all the luminaries which are in the firmament."
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (101)
Behold, that which the Ancients have invented and taught, is not the Ground. They took upon them to measure how many Hundred Thousand Miles it is to...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 44 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (5)
This I ask Thee, O Ahura! tell me aright; who, as a skilful artisan, hath made the lights and the darkness ? Who, as thus skilful, hath made sleep...
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...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (4)
The Bear up there that turneth round itself, and carries round the whole cosmos with it - Who is the owner of this instrument? Who He who hath set...
Asclepius
Section XXVII (2)
Beyond the Heaven starless Space doth stretch, stranger to every thing possessed of body. The Dispensator who’s between the Heaven and Earth, is...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 44 — Ushtavaiti Gatha (3)
This I ask Thee, O Ahura! tell me aright: Who by generation was the first father of the Righteous Order (within the world)? Who gave the (recurring)...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (45)
But now thou mayest ask, What Kind of Firmament of Heaven then is that, which I can neither see nor apprehend? Answer.
The Masnavi
The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass (72-81)
He thus interpreted the meaning of sun and stars, Yea, he, that great man who threaded jewels of interpretation, Seeing then that this world of...
Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Sacred Sermon (2)
All things being undefined and yet unwrought, the light things were assigned unto the height, the heavy ones had their foundations laid down...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (58)
Now open here the Eyes of thy Spirit, and behold God thy Creator. Question. Here now the Question is, From whence has Heaven, or whence borrows it,...