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Passages similar to: The Conference of the Birds — Invocation
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Sufi
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (17)
Sun and Moon - one* the day, the other the night, bow to the dust in adoration; and from their worship comes their movement. It is God who has spread out the day in whiteness, it is he who has folded up the night and blackened it.
Christian Mysticism
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (104)
Morning and evening are and reach up from the earth to the moon only, and take their original from the light of the sun, and this makes evening and...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XLI (8)
For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse, And the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous And darkness to the sinners in the...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXXXII (8)
And he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause the light to give light to men--sun, moon, and stars, and all the powers of the heaven whic...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XLI (6)
And after that I saw the hidden and the visible path of the moon, and she accomplishes the course of her path in that place by day and by night--the o...
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Sufi
The Prince and the Handmaid (11-20)
None but the sun can display the sun, If you would see it displayed, turn not away from it. Shadows, indeed, may indicate the sun's presence, Shadows...
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Mesopotamian
Tablet V (12)
The Moon-god he caused to shine forth, the night he entrusted to him
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Mesopotamian
Other Accounts: Dragon Myth (OBV.15)
In heaven the gods bowed themselves down before [the Moon-god
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXXIII (7)
And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginni...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (65)
The SUN has its own royal place to itself, and does not go away from that place where it came to be at the first. Some suppose that it runneth round...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXXII (33)
And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the day and of the night arise--through the course of the sun these distinctions are ...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXIX (20)
And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course, And deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.
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Neoplatonic
The World and Nature. (138)
For the Goddess bringeth forth the Vast Sun, and the lucent Moon.
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XLI (5)
And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon, whence they proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious return, and how one is superior to the...
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Hindu
Brahmana 3 (4.3.3)
But when the sun has set, Yajnavalkya, what light does a person here have? ' 'The moon, indeed, is his light/ said he, c for with the moon, indeed, as...
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Jewish Apocrypha
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...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter VII: What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It iS Heard By God. (22)
In correspondence with the manner of the sun's rising, prayers are made looking towards the sunrise in the east. Whence also the most ancient temples ...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (14)
Moses writes; God said, Let there be Light in the Firmament of Heaven, which may separate and distinguish Day and Night, and be for Signs, for Times...
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Hindu
Prapathaka III, Khanda 9 (4)
So long as the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, twice as long does it rise in the north and set in the south; and so long does he follow th...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (99)
The writer, Moses, saith, [Gen. i.] God separated the light from the darkness, and called the light day, and the darkness night, so out of evening...
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Mesoamerican
Part III, Chapter 9 (4)
Before the sun rose, damp and muddy was the surface of the earth, before the sun came up; but then the sun rose, and came up like a man. And its heat...
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