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Passages similar to: The Alchemy of Happiness — Concerning Music and Dancing as Aids to the Religious Life
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The Alchemy of Happiness
Concerning Music and Dancing as Aids to the Religious Life (9)
Thou may'st measure out thousands of measures of wine,
Book of Enoch
Chapter X (19)
And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (24)
"Above the gods' best gift to men ranks wine, In measure drunk; but in excess the worst."
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
VII. Jesus' Mother and the Water Changed to Wine—he Drives the Moneymakers from the Temple—temple of the Body (5)
There were set there six waterpots of stone containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus saith,
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXXVIII (7)
Thou takest possession of water, and thou marchest towards the altar of Sashert: four measures of water, as was commanded by Osiris to N. Shu has...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVII (9)
And now let us do what we purposed: For we have gathered silver, 9d And many are the husbandmen in our houses." 9e And our granaries are (brim) full a...
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (81-90)
Thou hast drunk blood of grapes, nay, my blood! Go! for I know thee not. Get away! I am a lover beside himself, whose words are wild. Thou fanciest...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVI (5)
Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat, And drink wine in large bowls, And tread under foot the lowly with your might.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCVIII (2)
For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman, And coloured garments more than a virgin: In royalty and in grandeur and in power, And in silver...
Corpus Hermeticum
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,...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
VII. Jesus' Mother and the Water Changed to Wine—he Drives the Moneymakers from the Temple—temple of the Body (9)
The ruler of the feast tasted. The water was made wine.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VII (2)
And he made wine therefrom and put it 1321 a.m. into a vessel, and kept it until the fifth year, until the first day, on the new moon of the first mon...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (23)
Theognis having said: "Wine largely drunk is bad; but if one use It with discretion, 'tis not bad, but good,"- does not Panyasis write?
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (122)
Now eat and drink, now trim and dress thyself therewith, and domineer therein, thou fair Goddess, how art thou become a Whore, and thy Shame and...