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The Conference of the Birds
The Birds Assemble (3)
Welcome, O Parrot! In your beautiful robe and collar of fire, this collar is fitting for a dweller in the underworld but your robe is worthy of Heaven. Can Abraham save himself from the fire of Nimrod? Break the head of Nimrod and become the friend of Abraham, who was the friend of God. When you have been delivered from the hands of Nimrod put on your robe of glory and fear not the collar of fire.
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (51-60)
Cut off these evil doubts and cast them away, Therefore thou hast chosen harsh friends and companions; The good friend goes up to highest heaven,...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXXXVI (2)
O ye gods, whose perfume is delicious: Flame which proceedest from the Horizon: O thou who art in the place whence I have brought the keeper of his...
The Masnavi
Luqman's Master examines him and discovers his Acuteness (20-28)
Now either permit me to hold my peace altogether, And if you dislike this and forbid that, Who can tell what your desire is? You must have the soul...
The Masnavi
The Mule and the Camel (89-97)
Flint and steel are able to generate fire, From them springs fire which can destroy its parents." As he continued importuning him, Gabriel displayed...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXIV (12)
He is delivered from the fiend-serpent with a burning mouth. His soul will not be imprisoned like a bird; he will be lord of those around him, and he...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XVII (52)
Oh Chepera, who are in the midst of thy bark and whose body is the cycle of the gods for ever; deliver me from those inquisitorial Wardens to whom...
The Masnavi
The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox (1-8)
Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God. His friend said, "who art thou. O faithful one?" He said, "'Tis I." He answered, "There is no...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXXVIII (18)
“The Nemmes hath been given to me by the god in Lion form, that thou mayest advance and go upon the path of Heaven, so that those who are on the...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXVII (2)
Believe for certain, shouldst thou stand a full Millennium in the bosom of this flame, It could not make thee bald a single hair. And if perchance...
The Masnavi
The Deadly Mosque (34-43)
Mercy was shown to it previously to vengeance, Because flesh and skin grow not without tender care, How should they not grow when warmed by the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Man (48)
ANSWER: "Behold, O Adam, the nature of thy Adversary!" The serpent disappears in a blinding sunburst of radiance and in its place stands an angel resplendent...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXIV (5)
Nor 'O' so quickly e'er, nor 'I' was written, As he took fire, and burned; and ashes wholly Behoved it that in falling he became. And when he on the g...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (122)
O man, thou wast not, by the Word, created together with and as the beasts, from good and evil; and if thou hadst not eaten of good and evil, then...
The Masnavi
The Deadly Mosque (94-103)
The Koran cries out even to the last day, "O people, given up as a prey to ignorance, If ye have imagined me to be only empty fables, Ye yourselves wh...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXXVIII (16)
“Go back to the confines of Heaven, for thou art invested with the attributes of Horus: for thee the Nemmes is not, but free utterance is thine, even...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XLII (2)
O Serpent Abur! Thou sayest this day, “The Block of Execution is furnished with what thou knowest,” and thou art come to soil the Mighty One