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The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXVIII. His Mother and Brethren Would Speak with Jesus—from Ship Talks to Hearers on the Shore: Three Parables on Seeds, One on the Candle (8)
but when the sun was up, because it had no depth of earth, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Book of Enoch
Chapter IV (1)
And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or ...
Popol Vuh
Part III, Chapter 9 (4)
Before the sun rose, damp and muddy was the surface of the earth, before the sun came up; but then the sun rose, and came up like a man. And its heat...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (75)
Understand this aright.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (67)
Does it not afford its sap to that as well as to the others?
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (153)
Thus now the heat kindled the dried water, and the light could no more elevate and kindle itself, for the water was dried up, and was quite consumed...
Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XIV. (5)
The tender plant, and withers all its shades; It lies uprooted from its genial bed, A lovely ruin now defac’d and dead.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (83)
Then the heat above the earth presseth upon the stalk, and so the bitter quality is then kindled by the heat, and it [the stalk] receiveth a repulse...
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. (78)
But when the sun was kindled, then the horrible fire-crack went forth upwards from the place of the sun, beyond the place of the sun, as a horrible te...
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)
It was with me as with a young tree that is planted in the ground, and at first is young and tender, and flourishing to the eye, especially if it...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (90)
In the meanwhile the heat from without always drieth the sweet water in the stalk, and the stalk is always smaller at the top; the higher it grows...
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. (36)
But the light made very great haste after it, and laid hold on the fire-crack; and there it remained as a captive, and became corporeal.
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. (77)
But seeing the heat was so terrified by the light, thereupon its horrible fire-source was allayed, and so could kindle itself no further; and so also ...
Enuma Elish
Other Accounts: Marduk Creation (OBV.2)
No reed had sprung up, no tree had been created
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (14)
If that should be taken away or become extinct, then all would be dark and cold; neither would there grow any fruit, and neither man nor beast could...
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (91-100)
Yet what is the nearness of that green branch, Wherefrom thou eatest ripe fruits? But as for the dry branch) from its nearness to the sun, What does i...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (18)
That sprang up first, in the kindling of the sun out of the chamber of death, and was an awakener or rouser of death, and a beginner of life, and...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (57)
Now these three qualities would be dark and dead, if the heat were not therein: But as soon as the spring time cometh, that the sun with its beams...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXVI (5)
And all the ravines were deep ⌈⌈and narrow⌉⌉, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them.
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (16)
This tree was also often tempted to try whether it would bear fruit, and shew itself with blossoms; but the blossoms were struck off till this very ti...
Bundahishn
Chapter IX (1)
The conflict waged with plants was that when they became quite dry.
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