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The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (141-150)
Long, long before earth had diverted it to itself. We used to be on earth, ignorant of tho earth, When we were commanded to depart from that place, So that we raised many questions, saying, ' O Lord! who will come to take our place? Wilt Thou barter the glory of our praises and homage For the vain babble (of men)?' The commands of God then diffused joy upon us; He said, 'What are ye saying at such length? What ye give tongue to so foolishly
Apocalypse of Adam
The Fall of Adam and Eve (2)
God, the ruler of the realms and the powers, divided us in wrath, and then we became two beings. And the glory in our hearts left us, me and your...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CV (1)
In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XIX (4)
"O ye elect of God, whose sufferings Justice and Hope both render less severe, Direct ye us towards the high ascents." "If ye are come secure from thi...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto VIII (2)
To any one who had those lights divine Seen come towards us, leaving the gyration Begun at first in the high Seraphim. And behind those that most in...
Popol Vuh
Part I, Chapter 2 (7)
Already dawn draws near: Let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us! What shall we do to be invoked, in order to be remembered on earth? We have...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto I (4)
If I was merely what of me thou newly Createdst, Love who governest the heaven, Thou knowest, who didst lift me with thy light! When now the wheel,...
The Conference of the Birds
The Peacock (2)
A pupil asked his Master: 'Why was Adam obliged to leave paradise?' The Master replied: 'When Adam, the noblest of creatures, entered paradise he...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XIX (2)
Exhaling, break within me the great fast Which a long season has in hunger held me, Not finding for it any food on earth. Well do I know, that if in...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVI (6)
The language that I spake was quite extinct Before that in the work interminable The people under Nimrod were employed; For nevermore result of reason...
The Conference of the Birds
Question of the Twentieth Bird (3)
God from on High said to David: 'Say to my servants: "O handful of earth! If I had not heaven for recompense and hell for punishment, would you ever...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVI (5)
Sometimes an animal, when covered, struggles So that his impulse needs must be apparent, By reason of the wrappage following it; And in like manner...
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (46)
O ignorant son of the first man, the Khalif of God on earth, strive to participate in the spiritual knowledge of your father. All creatures that God...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (28)
Whereon I say: Ye earth-born folk, why have ye given yourselves up to Death, while yet ye have the power of sharing Deathlessness? Repent, O ye, who w...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (164)
O noble guest! O, why didst thou depart from us! O fierceness, wrath and astringency or severity, thou art the cause of it! O fierce wrathful devil!...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (6)
For Adam was taken out of the Earth, not out of the four Productions of the Elements, [but he was] an Extract out of the Element, which qualified [or ...
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. (3)
For after the Fall God said also to Adam and Eve; Earth thou art, and to Earth thou shalt return again: And if I had not considered the nLimbus, (out ...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVII (1)
What I beheld seemed unto me a smile Of the universe; for my inebriation Found entrance through the hearing and the sight. O joy! O gladness inexpress...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 32 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (5)
Yea, he has ruled you, (ye) who are of the Demon-gods, and with an evil word unto action, as his ruler (governs) the wicked !
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 24 (4)
'Open the door of the world (the earth), let us see thee, that we may rule (on earth).'
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII (4)
More hatred from Leander did not suffer For rolling between Sestos and Abydos, Than that from me, because it oped not then. "Ye are new-comers; and...