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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (20)
As Esaias says, "And trample them down as clay." And Callimachus clearly writes: "That was the year in which Birds, fishes, quadrupeds, Spoke like Prometheus' clay." And the same again: "If thee Prometheus formed, And thou art not of other clay." Hesiod says of Pandora: "And bade Hephaestus, famed, with all his speed, Knead earth with water, and man's voice and mind Infuse."
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (21)
When he breathes on clay man is created; and from a little vapour he forms the world.
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (122)
The dear man Moses writeth, That God made man out of a clod of earth, as the learned have rendered it. But Moses was not present when it was done.
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XIV (7)
Already on all sides the air was quiet; And said he to me: "That was the hard curb That ought to hold a man within his bounds; But you take in the bai...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Stones, Metals and Gems (3)
After the deluge sent by the gods to destroy mankind at the close of the Iron Age, only Deucalion and Pyrrha were left alive. Entering a ruined...
Physiology and Human Nature (73e)
Timaeus: all of bone. And bone He compounded in this wise. Having sifted earth till it was pure and smooth, He kneaded it and moistened it with...
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (35)
He took clay and kneaded it with water, and after forty mornings placed therein the spirit which vivified the body.
Physiology and Human Nature (77a)
Timaeus: it was so that of necessity its life consisted in fire and air; and because of this it wasted away when dissolved by these elements or left...
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, ...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 2 (4)
"Speak, then, our names, praise us, your mother, your father. Invoke then, Huracán, ChipiCaculhá, Raxa-Caculhá, the Heart of Heaven, the Heart of Eart...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 2 (8)
Then was the creation and the formation. Of earth, of mud, they made [man's] flesh. But they saw that it was not good. It melted away, it was soft,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (22)
Reason must not imagine, that God ever made any Beast out of a Lump of Earth, as a Potter makes a Pot. But he said, Let there come forth all Sorts of...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 2 (7)
Already dawn draws near: Let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us! What shall we do to be invoked, in order to be remembered on earth? We have...
The Masnavi
Prologue (51-60)
He is a falcon in reality; regard not his outward form. Adam's clay was kneaded in the limits of a trough, "We have honored Adam" was not addressed...
Physiology and Human Nature (92a)
Timaeus: On this account also their race was made four-footed and many-footed, since God set more supports under the more foolish ones, so that they...
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (13)
Tat: Why, father mine! - do not the other lives make use of speech (logos)? Hermes: Nay, son; but use of voice; speech is far different from voice....
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 1 (4)
The father replied: 'My dear, as by one clod of clay all that is made of clay is known, the difference being only a name, arising from speech, but the...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 1 (4)
Thus let it be done! Let the emptiness be filled! Let the water recede and make a void, let the earth appear and become solid; let it be done. Thus...