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Passages similar to: Enuma Elish — Tablet V
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Mesopotamian
Enuma Elish
Tablet V (2)
The stars, their images, as the stars of the Zodiac, he fixed
Zoroastrian
Chapter II (2)
First he produced, the celestial sphere, and the constellation stars are assigned to it by him; especially these twelve whose names are Varak (the...
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Neoplatonic
The World and Nature. (119)
He fixed a vast multitude of un-wandering Stars, not by a strain laborious and hurtful, but with stability void of movement, forcing Fire forward...
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Sufi
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (3)
In the beginning he gilded the stars, so that at night the heavens might play tric-trac.
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXXXII (9)
And these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals and months.
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Greek
Time and Celestial Bodies (38d)
Timaeus: The Moon He placed in the first circle around the Earth, the Sun in the second above the Earth; and the Morning Star and the Star called...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter II (6)
On the recommendation of those chieftains the many unnumbered stars are specially assigned to the various quarters and various places, as the united...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (27)
For when God created the stars, he created them out of the rising up of the infinity, out of the old body of God then further kindled.
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (43)
The early star gazers, after dividing the zodiac into its houses, appointed the three brightest scars in each constellation to be the joint rulers of...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XXXIII (3)
And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individua...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (5)
There is a popular theory concerning the origin of the zodiacal creatures to the effect that they were products of the imagination of shepherds, who,...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (33)
For from the heaven the stars have their first kindling, and are only as an instrument, which God useth to the birth or geniture.
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (4)
The Greeks, and later other peoples influenced by their culture, divided the band of the zodiac into twelve sections, each being sixteen degrees in...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (6)
On this subject Richard Payne Knight writes: "The emblematical meaning, which certain animals were employed to signify, was only some particular...
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Neoplatonic
III, Chapter XVI (2)
But these are moved conformably to the mandates of the celestial Gods. For the most pure, agile, and supreme part of the air, is adapted to be enkindl...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (38)
For the instant or innate wheel of the stars and planets is no otherwise than as the birth of the seventh spirit of nature, before the time of the wor...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XLIII (1)
And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him.
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Bembine Table of Isis (54)
The upper panel contains the twelve figures of the zodiac arranged in four triads. The center figure in each group represents one of the four fixed...
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Neoplatonic
The World and Nature. (142)
The most celebrated of the Babylonians, together with Ostanes and Zoroaster, very properly call the starry Spheres "Herds"; whether because these...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (2)
The pagans looked upon the stars as living things, capable of influencing the destinies of individuals, nations, and races. That the early Jewish...
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Sufi
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (25)
He has placed in the firmament the orb of the proud, and binds it with iron when glowing red it wanes.
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