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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVIII: The Distinction Between Clean and Unclean Animals in the Law Symbolical of the Distinction Between the Church, and Jews, and Heretics. (7)
Now the Miscellanies are not like parts laid out, planted in regular order for the delight of the eye, but rather like an umbrageous and shaggy hill, planted with laurel, and ivy, and apples, and olives, and figs; the planting being purposely a mixture of fruit-bearing and fruitless trees, since the composition aims at concealment, on account of those that have the daring to pilfer and steal the ripe fruits; from which, however, the husbandmen, transplanting shoots and plants, will adorn a beautiful park and a delightful grove.
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. (11)
You shall find no Book wherein the divine Wisdom may be more searched into, and found, than when you walk in a flowery fresh springing Meadow, there y...
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 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (24)
But the wonderful Proportion, or Variety of Harmony which appears in the Growths or Vegetations, and Figures and Forms in this Garden, arises from the...
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (15)
I will not build upon their Grounds, but as a laborious careful Servant, I will dig away the Earth from the Root, that thereby Men may see the whole...
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...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (15)
Tree, which is planted in the Ground, and at first is young and tender, and flourishing to the Eye, especially if it comes on lustily in its growing :...
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.
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (30)
Now when I write of Trees, Plants and Fruits, you must not understand them to be Earthly, like those that are in this World: For it is not my...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (42)
For here all is possible; as soon is the Good changed into Evil, as the Evil into Good.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (22)
Seeing then the Mystery presents itself to us, therefore we will open the Blossom of the Sprout: Yet we would not have our Labour given to the...
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...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (47)
This Herb, which I mean here, from whose Fragrance my Spirit takes its Refreshing, every Country Ploughman does not know it, nor every Doctor, the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (7)
Now we must needs clearly [conceive, or] think, that the paradisical Fruit which was good, was not so very earthly, for (as Moses himself says) they...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (3)
Neither is it my Purpose to write of the Branches of the Tree, and to invert or disprove their Knowledge, neither do I build upon their Ground, but I...
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. (26)
Go into a Meadow, and look upon the Herbs and Flowers which grow all out of the Earth, and always one is fairer and more fragrant in Smell than the...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (32)
If all Trees were Writers or Clerks, and all Branches were Pens, and all Hills were Books, and all Waters were Ink, yet they could not sufficiently...
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...
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. (28)
Now since there are Varieties of Growth, according to the Essences of the Stars, and yet the Seed of God (which was sown in the Beginning) is in the...
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. (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.:24-25)
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...
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