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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Meaning of the Name Stromata or Miscellanies. (5)
Just so our Stromata, according to the husbandman of the comic poet Timocles, produce "figs, olives, dried figs, honey, as from an all-fruitful field;" on account of which exuberance he adds: "Thou speakest of a harvest-wreath not of husbandry."
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (XXV - The Earth)
The FUMIGATION from every kind of SEED, except BEANS and AROMATICS. O Goddess, Earth, of Gods and men the source, Endu'd with fertile, all destroying...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC SENTENCES, FROM THE PROTREPTICS OF IAMBLICHUS. [96] (10)
The fruits of the earth, indeed, are annually imparted, but the fruits of philosophy at every part of the year.
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (XXXIX - Ceres)
The FUMIGATION from STORAX. O Universal mother, Ceres fam'd August, the source of wealth, and various nam'd: 2 Great nurse, all-bounteous, blessed...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVII (7)
The produce of everything welcome as food of men, that is perennial, as the date, the myrtle, the lote-plum, the grape, the quince, the apple, the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (33)
The apricot and quince are familiar yonic symbols, while the bunch of grapes and the fig are phallic. The pomegranate is the mystic fruit of the...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (221-229)
How could the fruits display their globes? When the blossoms are shed the fruits come to a head, The fruit is the substance, the blossom only its...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (41)
World diligently, and consider what Manner of Fruit, Sprouts, and Branches, grow out of the Salitter of the Earth, from Trees, Plants, Herbs, Roots, F...
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (XLII - The Seasons)
The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS. DAUGHTERS of Jove and Themis, seasons bright, Justice, and blessed peace, and lawful right, Vernal and grassy, vivid,...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (24)
Not that the Fruits of the Earth are thereupon wholly in the Wrath of God; for the one only incorporated or compacted Word, which is immortal and...
Gospel of Thomas
Sayings (45)
Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are figs gathered from thistles, for they do not produce fruit. A good man brings forth good...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (25)
For every Quality bears its own Fruit, as it is in the corrupted murtherous Den or dark Valley and Dungeon of the Earth; there spring up all Manner of...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (47)
For in the Divine Pomp likewise go forth all Manner of Sprouting and Vegetation of Trees, Plants, and all Manner of Fruit; and every one bears its own...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 27: Of the Last Judgment, of the Resurrection of the Dead, and of the Eternal Life. The most horrible Gate of the Wicked, and the joyful Gate of the Godly. (25)
And now though other Seed be found among the Wheat (when it is fanned and sifted) that he cannot get out, shall he therefore not use his Wheat for Foo...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (89)
Matters the Qualities always bring to pass with the Heat in the Stalk, and the Stalk always grows further, and always one Storm or Assault is held aft...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 23: Of the highly precious Testaments of Christ, viz. Baptism and his last Supper, which he held in the Evening of Maundy- Thursday with his Disciples; which he left us for his Last [Will,] as a Farewell for a Remembrance. The most noble Gate of Christianity. (27)
Thus we every one of us labour and finish our Day's Work, every one in his own Field, and in the Harvest every one shall stand tby his Labour, and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 27: Of the Last Judgment, of the Resurrection of the Dead, and of the Eternal Life. The most horrible Gate of the Wicked, and the joyful Gate of the Godly. (24)
Behold, I give you a fit Similitude in a Sower; a Sower tills his Ground the best he can, and sows good Wheat, but now there is other Seed among the...
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (XXIX - Bacchus)
The FUMIGATION from STORAX. BACCHUS I call, loud-sounding and divine, Fanatic God, a two-fold shape is thine: Thy various names and attributes I...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (68)
But if Thorns grow among them, and the Mower comes to reap his Crop, he cuts them down together, but he casts out the Thorns, and they are to be burnt...