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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.
Bundahishn
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...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVII (11)
Whatever sweet-scented blossom arises at various seasons through the hand-labour of men, or has a perennial root and blossoms in its season with new...
Dhammapada
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.
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...
Dhammapada
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...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXII (1)
And after these fragrant odours, as I looked towards the north over the mountains I saw seven mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and cin...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (47)
This herb, which I mean here, from whose fragrancy my spirit taketh its refreshing, every country ploughman does not know it, nor every doctor, the...
Orphic Hymns
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...
Book of Enoch
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.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXI (3)
And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (56)
Mean is the scent that comes from Tagara and sandal-wood;--the perfume of those who possess virtue rises up to the gods as the highest.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter III (27)
And on that day on which Adam went forth from the garden, he offered as a sweet savour an offering, frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, ana spices in ...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVII (10)
Every plant with fragrant leaves, which is cultivated by the hand-labour of men, and is perennial (hamvâr), they call an aromatic herb (siparam).
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...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVII (24)
This, too, it says, that every single flower is appropriate to an angel (ameshôspend), as the white jasmine (saman) is for Vohûman, the myrtle and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (27)
Thus you see that there is an eternal Root which affords this; and if you could bring the Colours and Vegetation or Growing into it, yet you could...
Gospel of Truth
THE SWEETNESS OF THE FATHER (THE SWEETNESS OF THE FATHER)
He knows the things that are yours, so that you may rest yourselves in them. For by the fruits one knows the things that are yours, that they are the ...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXI (14)
Besides these kinds of wood there is none other that thou shalt place (on the altar), for the fragrance is dispersed, and the smell of its fragrance...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXIV (4)
And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragran...
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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