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Passages similar to: The Conference of the Birds — Invocation
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The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (3)
In the beginning he gilded the stars, so that at night the heavens might play tric-trac.
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (33)
For from the heaven the stars have their first kindling, and are only as an instrument, which God useth to the birth or geniture.
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. (27)
For when God created the stars, he created them out of the rising up of the infinity, out of the old body of God then further kindled.
Enuma Elish
Tablet V (2)
The stars, their images, as the stars of the Zodiac, he fixed
Time and Celestial Bodies (38d)
Timaeus: The Moon He placed in the first circle around the Earth, the Sun in the second above the Earth; and the Morning Star and the Star called...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (119)
He fixed a vast multitude of un-wandering Stars, not by a strain laborious and hurtful, but with stability void of movement, forcing Fire forward...
Time and Celestial Bodies (40c)
Timaeus: He framed to be the wardress and fashioner of night and day, she being the first and eldest of all the gods which have come into existence...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (63)
These powers of the stars and elements, did the Creator, after the horrible fall of Lucifer's kingdom, bring together again into the same order as...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter II (8)
And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon all the earth, an...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (139)
No, the sun and stars were first created but on the fourth day, out of that very light: There was a light arisen in the seven spirits of nature which...
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. (13)
Though Men must not cast the Pearl in the Way that the Beasts may tread it under Foot, much less must Men throw it among the Grains [or Husks] to be...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (63)
This description sheweth that the first writer did not know what the stars are, though he was capable of understanding the right or law of God, and...
Popol Vuh
Part III, Chapter 3 (7)
Thus they spoke while they saw and invoked the coming of the sun, the arrival of day; and at the same time that they saw the rising of the sun, they...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (66)
And the whole space had so continued, if the seven planets and stars had not risen or sprung up from God's spirits, which seven planets opened again a...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (2)
For when God through the Word had created heaven and earth, and had separated the light from the darkness, and had given a place to each of them, then...
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. (29)
Every star has a several peculiar property, which thou may perceive by the curious ornament of the budding, blossoming earth. And the Creator has...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (101)
For evening and morning were not before the time of the sun and stars, which most certainly and really were first created but on the fourth day, which...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (77)
Thus all had its beginning, even to the angels and devils, which, before the creation of heaven, stars and the earth, were produced from the same...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (26)
Moses writeth concerning them thus: And God said; Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide or distinguish the day from the night;...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (31)
Behold! the stars are plainly incorporated or compacted out of or from God; but thou must understand the difference between the stars and God, for...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (52)
Concerning which, Moses writeth thus: Am Anfang schuff Gott Himmel unb Erden. In the beginning created GOD heaven and earth.
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