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Aurora
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (122)
The dear man Moses writeth, That God made man out of a clod of earth, as the learned have rendered it. But Moses was not present when it was done.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (2)
Indeed Moses writes; That God made Man of the Dust of the Earth. And that is the Opinion of very many: And I should also not have known how that was...
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. (20)
Why did that [earthly Element] leave Man naked and bare? And when it had plainly possessed him, yet it left him naked.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (4)
Then what was it that God now did with Adam? Moses says, When Adam slept, he took one of his Ribs, and [made or] built a Woman of it, (viz. of the...
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. (6)
The Text in Moses says; he was created in the Paradise; that is, in the Gate of the Deep between the Deity and the Abyss of the Kingdom of Hell. His...
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (21)
When he breathes on clay man is created; and from a little vapour he forms the world.
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (35)
He took clay and kneaded it with water, and after forty mornings placed therein the spirit which vivified the body.
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. (22)
Reason must not imagine, that God ever made any Beast out of a Lump of Earth, as a Potter makes a Pot. But he said, Let there come forth all Sorts of...
The Masnavi
The Courtier who quarreled with his Friend for saving his Life (1-12)
Moses asks the Almighty, "Why hast Thou made men to destroy them?" Moses said, "O Lord of the day of account, Thou makest forms; wherefore, then,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (35)
Now I shall fall into the School of the Master in his uPontificalibus, who will ask out of what the Beasts, Fowls, Fishes, and Worms were made; for...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (20)
ANSWER: "And bade Hephaestus, famed, with all his speed, Knead earth with water, and man's voice and mind Infuse."...
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. (4)
Besides, he should have been subject to the Source, for Heat and Cold should have ruled over him; which we may see plainly in Moses, that God first...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 71: That some may not come to feel the perfection of this work but in time of ravishing, and some may have it when they will, in the common state of man’s soul (3)
Moses ere he might come to see this Ark and for to wit how it should be made, with great long travail he clomb up to the top of the mountain, and...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Tabernacle in the Wilderness (2)
While this noted scholar undoubtedly had much evidence to support his belief, it seems that this statement is somewhat too sweeping in character. It...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 10: Of the Creation of Man, and of his Soul, also of God's breathing in. The pleasant Gate. (22)
And when God had placed Man in the Garden, he commanded him, and said; You shall eat of every Tree in the Garden, but of the Tree of Knowledge of Good...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (19)
Homer, too, does not hesitate to put the following as an imprecation: "But may you all become earth and water."
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 7: Of the Heaven and its eternal Birth and Essence, and how the four Elements are generated; wherein the eternal Band may be the more and the better understood, by meditating and considering the material World. The great Depth. (30)
Therefore Moses writes, that God created the Heaven out of the Midst of the Waters: [This you must] understand [to be] out of the eternal watery Matri...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 6: Of the Separation in the Creation, in the third Principle. (14)
God made a Firmament between the Waters, and separated the Waters beneath the Firmament from the Waters above the Firmament, and the Firmament he call...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Man (19)
In his recent work, Judaism, George Foote Moore thus describes the proportions of the Adamic man: "He was a huge mass that filled the whole world to...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (7)
Now thus says Reason; What are then the Words of Moses concerning the Woman? To which I say; Moses has written right, but I (living thus P in the...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (98)
Similarly, then, Solon the Athenian, in the Elegies, following Hesiod, writes: "The immortal's mind to men is quite unknown." Again Moses, having...
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