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Christian Mysticism
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IX: On the Different Kinds of Cause. (24)
For of pleasant odour, which is one thing genetically, there are many specific causes, as frankincense, rose, crocus, styrax, myrrh, ointment. For the rose has not the same kind of sweet fragrance as myrrh.
Greek
The Elements (66e)
Timaeus: For smells arise in the intermediate state, when water is changing into air or air into water, and they are all smoke or mist; and of these,...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (55)
And there it is to be proved whether the smell be a good smell or savour, pleasing to man's constitution and complexion, or no: If it be good, then th...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (54)
So also in angels and men, the power of the smell riseth up out of all the powers of the body by and through the spirit, and cometh forth at the nostr...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter XXVII (19)
Whatever root, or gum, or wood is scented, as frankincense, varâst, kust, sandalwood, cardamom, camphor, orange-scented mint, and others of this...
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Greek
The Elements (66d)
Timaeus: For this subject, then, let this account suffice. Next, as regards the property of the nostrils, it does not contain fixed kinds. For the...
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Hindu
Prapathaka I, Khanda 2 (2)
They meditated on the udgîtha (Om) as the breath (scent) in the nose , but the Asuras pierced it (the breath) with evil. Therefore we smell by the...
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Channeled Material
Session 97 (97.6)
Ra: There are two components to this odor. One is, as has been surmised, the decomposing physical vehicle of one of your second-density Rodentia.…
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (77)
As lord Lucifer did also, who longed after the holy savour or sweet smell of the Son of God, and intended in his elevation and kindling to smell and s...
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Womb-Birth: The Return to the Human World (40.3)
If birth is to be obtained over a heap of impurities, a sensation that it is sweet-smelling will attract one towards that impure mass, and birth will...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XXIX (2)
And ⌈⌈there⌉⌉ I saw aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and the trees also were similar to the almond tree.
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Greek
Orphic Hymns (LV - Adonis)
The FUMIGATION from AROMATICS. MUCH-nam'd, and best of dæmons, hear my pray'r, The desart-loving, deck'd with tender hair; Joy to diffuse, by all...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (56)
And this counsellor of the smell, which is generated out of the Salitter, is also mixed with Mercurius, and so belongeth to the heavenly joyfulness, a...
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Buddhist
Chapter IV: Flowers (54)
The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind, nor (that of) sandal-wood, or of Tagara and Mallikâ flowers; but the odour of good people...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (55)
First, the astringent and sour quality is a body or source which attracteth the sweet power, and the cold in the astringent or harsh quality makes it...
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Buddhist
Chapter 11: The Bodhisattva Conduct (12)
ANSWER: “Where does it come from?” Sariputra replied: “It is this Upasaka Vimalakirti who obtained what was left over from the Buddha’s meal in the Fragrant L...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter XIV (2)
From the horns arose peas (mîgûk), from the nose the leek, from the blood the grapevine from which they make wine—on this account wine abounds with...
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Buddhist
Chapter IV: Flowers (55)
Sandal-wood or Tagara, a lotus-flower, or a Vassikî, among these sorts of perfumes, the perfume of virtue is unsurpassed.
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XXXI (3)
And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (60)
The astringent or harsh and sour quality, and the sweet, are the Salitter, which belongeth to the body, out of which the body is framed.
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Christian Mysticism
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...
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