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Passages similar to: Enuma Elish — Tablet III
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Mesopotamian
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (135)
The sweet drink, the mead, confused their
Christian Mysticism
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (83)
And the sweet spring water became very thick and stinking, and the bitter quality became very raging, tearing and raving, whence poison was generated,...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (79)
Now when the astringent or harsh and the bitter qualities get their light from the heat, then they see the sweet quality, and taste of its sweet...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (82)
Then what do those in the west? Their bitter quality will rub itself with the others, but when they taste the sweet water, then will their spirit be...
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Sufi
The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel (1-10)
"I know not if thou art a moon or an idol, I know not what service to pay thee, Thou art not apart from me, yet, strange to say, I know not where I...
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Gnostic
Authoritative Teaching (5)
That one then will fall into drinking much wine in debauchery. For wine is the debaucher. Therefore she does not remember her brothers and her...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (158)
So the sweet water being dried up, the bitter quality (which existed and was generated by the first flash, when the light kindled itself) rose up in t...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (38)
There each spirit tasteth of the others, and getteth mere new strength and power, for the astringent quality grows now very pliable and yielding,...
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Sufi
The Oilman and his Parrot (23-33)
As there are many demons with men's faces, When the fowler sounds his decoy whistle, That the birds may be beguiled by that snare, The birds hear...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (47)
Secondly, the sweet quality also loveth the bitter, because it is a cause of the heat, and also because the bitter spirit triumpheth and trembleth in...
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Sufi
The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel (21-30)
How can a fellow spiritual man mistake his meaning? Thus that minstrel began his intoxicating song, "O give me Thy cup, Thou whom I see not! Thou art...
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter CLXXIII (19)
I have made for thee drink at Tepu with white grain
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Hermetic
7. The Greatest Ill Among Men Is Ignorance of God (1)
Whither stumble ye, sots, who have sopped up the wine of ignorance and can so far not carry it that ye already even spew it forth? Stay ye, be sober,...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (51)
And first the sweet. For in the sweet water the bitter spirit is refreshed, and therein it quencheth its great thirst; and its bitterness is therein m...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (80)
And the sweet quality always flies from the bitter and the astringent, and always stretcheth its palate wider, and the bitter and the astringent conti...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (91)
And then the sweet quality yieldeth to be taken captive, and so the bitter, the sour, the sweet and the astringent reign jointly together, and the swe...
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Mesoamerican
Part IV, Chapter 4 (4)
They went straight to sting the pupils of their eyes, the little insects buzzing in swarms over each one of the men; and the latter, stunned by the...
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Sufi
The Arab and his Wife (71-80)
Because outward attentions are evidence Of secret love, O beloved! The witness may be true or false, Now drunk with real wine, now with sour whey; He...
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Neoplatonic
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (32)
Every cup should be sweet to you which extinguishes thirst. Fly from intoxication as you would from insanity. No good originates from the body.
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (107)
According to this false or wicked conclusion and result they agreed to do one and the same thing, and so dried up the sweet water in Lucifer's body;...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (36)
Strong wine made from the juice of the grape was looked upon as symbolic of the false life and false light of the universe, for it was produced by a...
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