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Passages similar to: The Conference of the Birds — Invocation
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The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (19)
The firmament is like a bird beating its wings along the way God has marked out for him, striking the Door with his head as with a hammer.
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (117)
For the firmament was within in the mass, as well as without, distinct from the mass, which is the parting mark or limit of separation between the Hea...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (116)
But now the firmament of heaven, that is between the Heart of God and the kindled, hard chamber of death, was closed or shut up; else the life in the ...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (133)
The hard firmament is the astringent quality, and the gentle, mild or meek firmament is the water, in which the light of life riseth up, which is the...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XIV (11)
Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings, and between them were fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water.
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. (8)
On the second Day, God created the Firmament of the Heaven, viz. the strong Inclosure, [Fence, or Stop] to the Darkness of the original Matrix, that...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (45)
But now thou may ask, What kind of firmament of heaven then is that which I can neither see nor apprehend? Answer.
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (41)
Therefore God has made the firmament, which is called heaven, between the outermost and the innermost birth; and that is a partition or division betwe...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XVIII (3)
⌈⌈And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven⌉⌉, and have their station between heaven and earth: ⌈⌈these are the pillars of the...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (46)
It is the firmament between the clear Deity and the corrupt nature, which thou must break through when thou intendest to come to God; and it is that...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (148)
With or through the soul, I see it very well; but the firmament of the heaven is between, in which the soul hideth itself, and there receiveth its...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (121)
The love of God have mercy, and take pity on it!
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (47)
Now that impurity in that heaven is the wrath, but the purity is the word of God, which he once spake, saying [Gen.i. 6.]; Let the water under the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (14)
God made a Firmament between the Waters, and separated the Waters beneath the Firmament from the Waters above the Firmament, and the Firmament he call...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (26)
If we rightly consider how God separated the water under the firmament, from the water above the firmament, then great things will be found therein.
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (38)
But that there is a firmament between the waters, which firmament is called heaven, has this understanding or meaning:
Book of Enoch
Chapter XIV (17)
And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire.
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 11 (He entereth the firmament)
"I came before the [first] gate of the firmament, shining most exceedingly, and there was no measure for the light which was about me, and the gates...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (73)
And this firmament of heaven is his throne or footstool, and the qualifying or fountain spirits of his natural body rule in the whole body of this wor...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (29)
But that the place of this world is not called heaven, and that there is a firmament or fast enclosure between the upper heaven above us, has this und...
Chuang Tzu
Transcendental Bliss. (1)
In the northern ocean there is a fish, called the Leviathan, many thousand li in size. This leviathan changes into a bird, called the Rukh, whose...
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