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Passages similar to: Stromata (Miscellanies) — Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue.
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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (29)
And of the fixed stars, the Pleiades are seven. And the Bears, by the help of which agriculture and navigation are carried through, consist of seven stars.
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (142)
The most celebrated of the Babylonians, together with Ostanes and Zoroaster, very properly call the starry Spheres "Herds"; whether because these...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (15)
Albert Pike describes the reverence which the Persians felt for this sign and the method of astrological symbolism in vogue among them, thus: "In...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter IV:(3)
These seven double letters He formed, designed, created, and combined into the Stars of the Universe, the days of the week, the orifices of...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (64)
The seven double letters having been designed, established, purified, weighed, and exchanged by God, He formed of them seven planets in the universe, ...
Bundahishn
Chapter II (2)
First he produced, the celestial sphere, and the constellation stars are assigned to it by him; especially these twelve whose names are Varak (the...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter IV:(4)
From two letters, or forms He composed two dwellings; from three, six; from four, twenty-four; from five, one hundred and twenty; from six, seven...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXI (3)
And there I saw seven stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Pythagorean Mathematics (129)
Among many ancient nations the heptad is a sacred number. The Elohim of the Jews were supposedly seven in number. They were the Spirits of the Dawn,...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Pythagorean Mathematics (128)
By the Pythagoreans the heptad--7--was called "worthy of veneration." It was held to be the number of religion, because man is controlled by seven...
Bundahishn
Chapter II (5)
As a specimen of a warlike army, which is destined for battle, they have ordained every single constellation of those 6480 thousand small stars as...
Sefer Yetzirah
[Supplement to Chapter IV]:(8)
By these seven letters were also made seven worlds, seven heavens, seven lands, seven seas, seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days (as before),...
Bundahishn
Chapter II (6)
On the recommendation of those chieftains the many unnumbered stars are specially assigned to the various quarters and various places, as the united...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (43)
The early star gazers, after dividing the zodiac into its houses, appointed the three brightest scars in each constellation to be the joint rulers of...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (75)
With the seven double letters He also designed seven earths, seven heavens, seven continents, seven seas, seven rivers, seven deserts, seven days, sev...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (123)
He made them six in number, and for the Seventh He cast into the midst thereof the Fiery Sun.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (65)
The seven planets in the universe are: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, and Moon. The seven days in the Year are the seven days of the week...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXII (3)
And I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and six portals in which the sun sets and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and the leaders of t...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Sun, A Universal Deity (28)
Among certain of the Arabian and Persian astronomers the three stars forming the sword belt of Orion were called the Magi who came to pay homage to...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXII (9)
And these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals and months.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XC (21)
And the Lord called those men the seven first white ones, and commanded that they should bring before Him, beginning with the first star which led the...
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