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The Conference of the Birds
The Birds Assemble (12)
B (lo) Welcome, O Hawk! You who have taken wing, and after rebelling against your master have bowed your head! Bear yourself becomingly. You are fastened to the body of this world, and so are far from the other. When you are free of the worlds, present and future, you will rest on the hand of Alexander.
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XX (2)
Even thus, relieved from the delay of waiting, That murmuring of the eagle mounted up Along its neck, as if it had been hollow. There it became a...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXXI (1)
O Divine Hawk, who comest forth in Heaven, Lord of Mehurit
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (20-28)
His blind soul wanders in every direction, And at last makes a spring, but springs not upwards. A man captured a bird by wiles and snares; The bird sa...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXXVI (2)
Hail to thee, who fliest up to Heaven, to give light to the stars and protect the White Crown which falleth to me
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXLIX (36)
O ye who are in your domain, throw yourselves on your bellies, that I may pass near you. My glorious nature will not be taken from me. No one will...
The Masnavi
The Falcon and the Owls (Summary)
A certain falcon lost his way, and found himself in the waste places inhabited by owls. The owls suspected that he had come to seize their nests, and...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXXXI (8)
Hail to thee, great god in the East of Heaven, who enterest into the Bark of Rā in the form of the Divine Hawk and executest the decrees which have...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXX (1)
Thy limbs have been given thee, thou takest hold of thy bones, I have set for thee thy limbs; the earth is bent upon protecting thy flesh. Thou art...
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (19-27)
Hence thou goest both upon earth and on heaven." Hence to outward view "He is a man like you," While to his sharp-seeing heart "it hath been...
The Masnavi
Luqman's Master examines him and discovers his Acuteness (11-19)
Through love the dead rise to life, Even when an evil befalls you, have due regard; The sight which regards the ebb and flow of good and ill Thence...
The Masnavi
The Elephant in a Dark Room (22-31)
When you pluck up your foot you escape from the mire, When you obtain salvation at God's hands, O wanderer, You are free from the mire, and go your...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (164)
O noble guest! O, why didst thou depart from us! O fierceness, wrath and astringency or severity, thou art the cause of it! O fierce wrathful devil!...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXIX (10)
The great god speaks to thee: Let him be brought here for all that will happen. The hawk rejoices in thee, the cackler cackles to thee, Rā opens to...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 21: Of the Cainish, and of the Abellish Kingdom; how they are both in one another. Also of their Beginning, Rise, Essence, and Purpose; and then of their last Exit. Also of the Cainish Antichristian Church, and then of the Abellish true Christian Church; how they are both in one another, and are very difficult to be known [asunder.] Also of the Variety of Arts, States, and Orders of this World. Also of the Office of Rulers [or Magistrates,] and their Subjects; how there is a good and divine Ordinance in them all, as also a false, evil, and devilish one. Where the Providence of God is seen in all Things; and the Devil 's Deceit, Subtilty, and Malice, [is seen also] in all Things. (62)
O how thou wilt rejoice, when thou shalt think upon thy wild Beast, which plagued thee Day and Night, in that thou art 0 loosed from it.
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (10-18)
Thou art a duck, and flourishest on land and water, And dost not, like a domestic fowl, dig up the house. Thou art a king of "the sons of Adam...
The Masnavi
The Sage and the Peacock (61-70)
That you cling so to present existence, O simpleton? Since the latter of your states were better than the former, You have already seen hundreds of...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXIII A (1)
O Bull of Amenta! let me be borne to thee!
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.19)
As a falcon, or an eagle, having flown around here in space, becomes weary, folds its wings, and is borne down to its nest, just so this person...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXIV (2)
Ye two divine Hawks upon your gables, who are giving attentive heed to the matter; ye who accompany the bier to the tomb, and who conduct the ship of...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (81-90)
He learned birds' language from "what we were taught." But thou art only a bird of the air; understand then That thou hast never seen the true...
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