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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: The Same Subject Continued. (11)
For production is twofold - of things procreated, and of things that grow.
Gospel of Philip
Creating and Procreating (Creating and Procreating)
There is the child of humankind, and there is the child of the child of humankind. The child of humankind is the master, and the child of the child of humankind is the one who creates through the child of humankind.…
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (45)
Nature labours with utmost Diligence, to produce in its Power heavenly Figures, Shapes, or Forms, as we see in Men, Beasts, Fowls, and Worms, as also...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 1 (6.1.6)
Verily, he who knows procreation (prajatf) procreates himself with progeny and cattle. Semen, verily, is procreation. He procreates himself with...
Asclepius
Section XX (3)
He, then, alone, yet all-complete in the fertility of either sex, ever with child of His own Will, doth ever bring to birth whatever He hath willed...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (25)
For that which is predominant or chief in the Striving, images, or forms the Growth and Vegetation according to its Kind, and the other always help to...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (4)
But because the Creatures were material, therefore every Kind [Species or Generation] must thus propagate itself from every Essence; but with the Ange...
Asclepius
Section XV (2)
It, therefore, is the sum of [all that] quality of Matter which hath creative potency, although it hath not been [itself] created. And, seeing that [t...
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. (40)
An Example whereof you have in Propagation; for the Sake whereof the Separation was so made: For you see that there is a Male and a Female; and that t...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 3 (1)
'Of all living things there are indeed three origins only , that which springs from an egg (oviparous), that which springs from a living being...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (90)
For in what Proportion or Harmony soever, or innate or infant Generating or Production of Qualities soever, the Spirit comprehends, conceives, and for...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Bembine Table of Isis (46)
Proclus says: "Every property of divinity permeates all creation and gives itself to all inferior creatures. "One of the manifestations of the...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (107)
Now observe: In either Wood, Stone, or Herbs, there are Three Things contained, neither can any Thing be generated or grow, if but one of the Three...
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...
Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Sacred Sermon (3)
Thus there arose four-footed beasts, and creeping things, and those that in the water dwell, and things with wings, and everything that beareth seed, ...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (99)
Now all the Qualities labour or work therein, and bring forth their Fruit or Children, and every Child is qualified or conditioned according to the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (18)
Now then, out of these Forms, out of the Matrix of the Earth, by the Fiat, in the Word, went forth all the Creatures of this World; also Trees,...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (48)
The Seed of Man is generated in such a Manner, as the wonderful Proportion, Harmony, or Form of Nature in its Wrestling and Rising up, is generated...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (22)
For that is called its own Kind, which is received in the Mother's Body or Womb, and is its own by Right of Nature, as its own peculiar Life. [Gen. 1....
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (49)
But in this Time every thing has a twofold Source and Quality; whatsoever thou buildest and sowest here in the Spirit, be it with Words, Works, or Tho...
Asclepius
Section XXI (1)
For ’tis impossible that any of the things that are should be unfruitful. For if fecundity should be removed from all the things that are, it could no...
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