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The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (6)
He dried up the bed of the sea and from its stones brought forth rubies, and from its blood, musk.
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. (10)
For the saltwater or salt [or saltpetre], which still to this day is found in the earth, has its original and descent from the first kindling of the a...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (17)
Where the hot spirit in the sweet water was predominant in love, there the astringent spirit attracted the matter together, and so thereby the...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (15)
But the heat in the astringent spirit chiefly helped to make the hardness; but where that [hardness] came to be, there it [the heat] generated the nob...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (7)
Out of the earth sprang up grass, herbs and trees; and in the earth, silver, gold, and all manner of ores came to be; and in the deep above the earth...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (12)
For in that place wherein the astringent quality was predominant, there the Salitter was attracted together and dried, so that hard dry stones came to...
Enuma Elish
Other Accounts: Marduk Creation (OBV.18)
He formed dust and poured it out beside the reed
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (33)
Primordial water He extracted from the air. He formed therein twenty-two letters and established them out of mud and loam, making them like a border, ...
Bundahishn
Chapter VII (13)
And ten nights and days rain was produced by him in that manner, and the poison and venom of the noxious creatures which were in the earth were, all m...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (85)
And the hard, spoiled or corrupt matter, which had wrought forth itself in the kindled seven qualifying or fountain-spirits, was driven together, from...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (84)
Of or from the earth it taketh the birth of the earth, or the fruit, for it is much more noble than the earth. It is an extracted mass out of the...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (92)
And so when this was done, then the storm grew so hot that the astringent quality drew the Salitter together, so that hard stones proceeded from it; w...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (85)
But when the lump of the earth was pressed and compacted together, then thereby the water came to be squeezed and pressed forth: But where the water w...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (50)
Thus thou seest and understandest out of what the earth and stones are come to be. But if that kindled Salitter should have continued to be thus in...
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. (11)
For the astringent quality now attracted the Salitter very strongly together, and dried it, whence the bitter earth is proceeded; but the stones are f...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (18)
For that flash becometh generated in the meekness, and is the heart in the centre of the qualifying or fountain spirits; therefore those stones are al...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXV (7)
And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth.
Bundahishn
Chapter VII (14)
Afterwards, the wind, in the same manner as before, restrained the water, at the end of three days, on various sides of the earth; and the three...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (91)
When God had driven the corrupted Salitter of earth and stones, (which had generated itself in the outermost birth by the kindling), together on a...
Turba Philosophorum
The Thirty-Fourth Dictum (34)
Bacsen saith: On account of thy dicta the Philosophers said beware,* Take the regal Corsufle, which is like to the redness of copper, and pound in...
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. (75)
For the Creator has extracted the heart out of the Salitter and Mercurius of the divine powers; ["Understand he has composed it by the Fiat, viz. the ...
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