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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (47)
"For I already have been boy and girl, And bush, and bird, and mute fish in the sea,"- Euripides transcribes in Chrysippus: "But nothing dies Of things that are; but being dissolved, One from the other, Shows another form."
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (32-41)
At the words, ' Strike the corpse with part of her.' O pious ones, slay the cow (of lust), If ye desire true life of soul and spirit! I died as...
Corpus Hermeticum
13. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain (3)
Tat: Thou sayest things impossible, O father, things that are forced. Hence answers would I have direct unto these things. Am I a son strange to my...
The Masnavi
The Mule and the Camel (1-10)
First he appeared in the class of inorganic things, For years he lived as one of the plants, Remembering naught of his inorganic state so different;...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (43)
Such clothes or garments as a man puts on, transfigure him. And what manner of body soever man soweth into the earth, such a body also grows up from i...
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...
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (7)
Tat: Made like to God? What dost thou, father, mean? Hermes: Of every soul apart are transformations, son. Tat: What meanest thou? Apart? Hermes:...
The Masnavi
The Sage and the Peacock (41-50)
On the day that you entered upon existence, You were first fire, or earth, or air. If you had continued in that, your original state, How could you ha...
Chuang Tzu
Perfect Happiness. (8)
When they reach the junction of the land and the water, they become lichen. Spreading up the bank, they become the dog-tooth violet. Reaching rich soi...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (15)
Though deathless and possessed of sway o'er all, yet doth he suffer as a mortal doth, subject to Fate. Thus though above the Harmony, within the Harmo...
Corpus Hermeticum
8. That No One of Existing Things Doth Perish (1)
[Hermes:] Concerning Soul and Body, son, we now must speak; in what way Soul is deathless, and whence comes the activity in composing and dissolving...
Chuang Tzu
The Identity of Contraries. (16)
How can I tell why I do one thing, or why I do not do another?" Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzŭ, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and...
Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Sacred Sermon (4)
[Thus] there begins their living and their growing wise, according to the fate appointed by the revolution of the Cyclic Gods, and their deceasing...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.13)
Just as the man in this body passes through the various stages of boyhood, youth, and old age, like so, he passes into another body after death. The...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXI (2)
All these, through growth, or the body which is formed, mingle again with the rivers, for the body which is formed and the growth are both one.
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...
Asclepius
Section XXXV (3)
The species, then, persists, as frequently producing from itself as many images, and as diverse, as there are moments in the Cosmic Revolution, —a...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 10 (2)
Whatever these creatures are here, whether a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or a midge, or a gnat, or a musquito, that they become again and a...
Time and Celestial Bodies (42c)
Timaeus: he shall be changed every time, according to the nature of his wickedness, into some bestial form after the similitude of his own nature;...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 7: Looking at Living Beings (55)
The goddess said: Likewise all living beings (fundamentally) are subject to neither death nor birth.”
Corpus Hermeticum
13. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain (14)
Tat: Tell me, O father: This Body which is made up of the Powers, is it at any time dissolved? Hermes: Hush, [son]! Speak not of things impossible,...
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