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Passages similar to: The Conference of the Birds — Invocation
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The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (15)
He stained the sword with the colour of the tulip; and from vapour made a bed of water-lilies.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Alchemy and Its Exponents (42)
"On the fifth leaf there was a fair rose tree flowered in the midst of a sweet garden, climbing up against a hollow oak; at the foot whereof boiled a...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto I (6)
As soon as we were come to where the dew Fights with the sun, and, being in a part Where shadow falls, little evaporates, Both of his hands upon the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Alchemy and Its Exponents (41)
"The fourth and fifth leaves therefore, were without any writing, all full of fair figures enlightened, or as it were enlightened, for the work was...
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (42-51)
Sings to me in organ tones, 'To him shall we return.' Like a water-lily seek life there! Yea, like that drawer of water, at the risk of life, Water...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXII (3)
In the same manner as our trees (when downward Falls the great light, with that together mingled Which after the celestial Lasca shines) Begin to swel...
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. (33)
This Trade he has driven ever since the Beginning of the World: And though he resists never so vehemently, yet a Lily shall grow in his supposed Kingd...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXIII (4)
There is the Rose in which the Word Divine Became incarnate; there the lilies are By whose perfume the good way was discovered." Thus Beatrice; and...
The Masnavi
Omar and the Ambassador (11-20)
He speaks to the tulip, and makes it blossom. He speaks a spell to body, and it becomes soul; He speaks to the sun, and it becomes a fount of light....
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXIII (5)
Truly from this time forward shall my words Be naked, so far as it is befitting To lay them open unto thy rude gaze." And more coruscant and with slow...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto VII (4)
Gold and fine silver, and scarlet and pearl-white, The Indian wood resplendent and serene, Fresh emerald the moment it is broken, By herbage and by...
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (52-61)
Will that water run away from the stream? When that water joins the water of the stream It is lost therein, and becomes itself the stream. Its...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXXI (1)
In fashion then as of a snow-white rose Displayed itself to me the saintly host, Whom Christ in his own blood had made his bride, But the other host,...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Hermetic and Alchemical Figures of Claudius De Dominico Celentano Vallis Novi from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated at Naples A.D. 1606 (11)
Leaf 1. The top line reads: "Our earliest medicine was made of natural objects." About the king and queen appears the statement that to them a son...
Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XIV. (3)
With dust dishonor’d, and deform’d with gore. As the young olive in some sylvan scene, Crown’d by fresh fountains with eternal green,
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (72-81)
Corresponding to that root grow up branches The tops of the perfect trees reach the heavens, The roots firm, and the branches in the sky. Since then...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVII (11)
Whatever sweet-scented blossom arises at various seasons through the hand-labour of men, or has a perennial root and blossoms in its season with new...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXX (4)
And even as the penthouse of mine eyelids Drank of it, it forthwith appeared to me Out of its length to be transformed to round. Then as a folk who ha...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Rosicrucians and Their Secret Doctrine (14)
(2) The Sword Attached to the Rose indicates that the Sword of the Spirit must be actively employed in the Battle of Life, in order to win the reward...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (19)
Then that flash retireth back, and the sweet water catcheth it, and riseth up in that fierceness, and in that rising and terrifying changeth itself...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (83)
And the sweet spring water became very thick and stinking, and the bitter quality became very raging, tearing and raving, whence poison was generated,...
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