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Passages similar to: Stromata (Miscellanies) — Chapter XXIII: On Marriage.
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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: On Marriage. (9)
"Without a father there never could be a child, And without a mother conception of a child could not be.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 2 (2)
No, my dear, only that which is, was in the beginning, one only, without a second....
Corpus Hermeticum
2. To Asclepius (17)
The other name of God is Father, again because He is the that-which-maketh-all. The part of father is to make. Wherefore child-making is a very great...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (72)
And though the child be in the mother's house, and the mother nourish the child with her food, and the child could not live without the mother, yet bo...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (74)
But the quality externally without them, or externally without their bodies, viz. their mother, is not their propriety, as also their mother is not th...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (55)
For the Father's power generateth the Son continually from eternity to eternity; but if the Father should cease to generate, then the Son would be no ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (88)
Behold, dost thou know how a Child comes to be Flesh and Blood, and in the End a living Soul? And do you not know that the Tincture of the Mother is...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (3)
Again, the parent is the children's cause, both on the father's and the mother's side, only by sharing in the Good's desire [that doth pour] through...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 5 (1.5.7)
These same are father, mother, and offspring. The father is Mind. The mother is Speech. The offspring is Breath. l
The Kybalion
Chapter V: The Mental Universe (16)
"Within the Father-Mother Mind, mortal children are at home." --The Kybalion. "There is not one who is Fatherless, nor Motherless in the Universe." --...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (91)
Thus also in Christ; the Will [to the Child] was the Mother's, when the Angel declared the Message to her, and the Tincture (which received the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (3)
Father, mother, and child constitute the natural trinity. The Mysteries glorified the home as the supreme institution consisting of this trinity...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (86)
For the outward Virgin could not comprehend, that she did bear the Saviour of the World; but she committed that (in her Virgin-chastity) to God; whats...
Gospel of Philip
Children of the Perfect Human (Children of the Perfect Human)
The heavenly person has more children than the earthly person. If the children of Adam are numerous but die, how much more numerous are the children...
Chaldean Oracles
Particular Souls. (78)
The Father conceived ideas, and all mortal bodies were animated by Him.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (90)
Now thus the Child qualifies [or mixes] with the Mother, and with all Essences, till it kindles the Light of Life, and then the Child lives in its...
Chapter 17: Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the corrupt perished Nature, and Original of the four Elements, instead of the holy Government of God. (12)
Now it may be asked, How then is a comprehensible or palpable son come to be out of an incomprehensible mother? Answer.
Bundahishn
Chapter XV (22)
From them was born in nine months a pair, male and female; and owing to tenderness for offspring the mother devoured one, and the father one.
Gospel of Philip
Marriage (Marriage)
The mystery of marriage is great. [Without] it, the world would [not] exist. The existence of [the world depends on] people, and the existence [of...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Eternal Parent (25)
There can have been no other Real being—no "other" to the Infinite and Absolute Reality—for the predicate of Infinity and Absoluteness carries with it...
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (4)
The infant, while in the form of a fetus has enough for itself, before ever seeing the one who sowed it. Therefore, they had the sole task of...
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