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Passages similar to: Aurora — Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven.
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Aurora
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (85)
But when the lump of the earth was pressed and compacted together, then thereby the water came to be squeezed and pressed forth: But where the water was enclosed and pressed in with the astringent quality by hard rocks, there it is yet in the earth still, and has since that time worn and made some great holes or veins for its passage.
The Elements (60c)
Timaeus: but because there was no void space above them, therefore it pressed against the adjacent air; and it, being heavy, when pressed and poured...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXIX (17)
And through it the earth was founded upon the water, And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters, From the creation of the wor...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (8)
For a Stone is but Water; and therefore we should do well to consider, what Kind of Fierceness there must have been, that has drawn the Water so hard ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (12)
But to declare this further; when the Matrix stood thus in the Birth, where the Matter of the Earth was generated, then the Matrix with the Kindling b...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 1 (5)
First the earth was formed, the mountains and the valleys; the currents of water were divided, the rivulets were running freely between the hills,...
The Elements (61b)
Timaeus: so long as the water occupies the interspaces of earth which are forcibly contracted, the portions of water which approach from without find...
The Elements (61a)
Timaeus: Thus earth when it is not forcibly condensed is dissolved only by water; and when it is condensed it is dissolved by fire only, since no...
Bundahishn
Chapter III (13)
He came on to the water which was arranged below the earth, and then the middle of this earth was pierced and entered by him.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (33)
Primordial water He extracted from the air. He formed therein twenty-two letters and established them out of mud and loam, making them like a border, ...
The Elements (59e)
Timaeus: but because of their outflow it is compressed upon itself; and when it is thus solidified, the part of it above the earth which is most...
Bundahishn
Chapter VIII (4)
Afterwards, about that wonderful shaking out from the earth, they say that a great mountain is the knot of lands; and the passage for the waters...