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Passages similar to: The Three Principles of the Divine Essence — Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate.
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Christian Mysticism
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (4)
Then what was it that God now did with Adam? Moses says, When Adam slept, he took one of his Ribs, and [made or] built a Woman of it, (viz. of the Rib which he took from Man,) and closed up the Place with Flesh. Now Moses has wrote very right: But who is it that can understand him here? If I did not know the first Adam in his virgin-like Form in Paradise, then I had been at a Stand, and should have known no other than that Adam had been made Flesh and Blood of a Lump of Earth, and his Wife Eve of his Rib and hard Bones; which before the Time [of my Knowledge] has oft seemed very strange and wonderful to my Thoughts, when I have read the Glosses upon Moses, that so [high or] deep learned Men should write so of it: Some of them will dare to tell of a Pit in the [Orient or] East Country, out of which Adam should be taken and made as a Potter makes
Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter III (5)
And the Lord our God caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and he slept, and He took for the woman one rib from amongst his ribs, and this rib was the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (122)
The dear man Moses writeth, That God made man out of a clod of earth, as the learned have rendered it. But Moses was not present when it was done.
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (115)
Also such an image was Adam, as God created him, before his Eve was made out of him; but the corrupted Salitter did wrestle with the wellspring of...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Man (19)
In his recent work, Judaism, George Foote Moore thus describes the proportions of the Adamic man: "He was a huge mass that filled the whole world to...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (24)
Then it was time that the Creator should frame a wife for him, who afterwards set the sin on work, and did eat of the false, evil or corrupt fruit....
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter III (6)
And He awaked Adam out of his sleep and on awaking he rose on the sixth day, and He broughther to him, and he knew her, and said unto her : " This is ...
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