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The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (221-229)
How could the fruits display their globes? When the blossoms are shed the fruits come to a head, The fruit is the substance, the blossom only its form, Blossom the good news, and fruit the promised boon. When the blossoms fall the fruit appears, Till bread is broken, how can it serve as food? Till the grapes are crushed, how can they yield wine? Till citrons be pounded up with drugs, How can they afford healing to the sick?
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (94)
And then also it presses forth in little Leaves, like a Woman which is in travel and bringing forth, but the little Leaves or Blossoms have no more it...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (28)
But that the Fruits get another Body than the Earth is, which is much fuller of Virtue, fairer, or more beautiful, also of a better Taste, Relish and ...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (137)
But seeing the heavenly Fruits, before the Time of the Wrath, sprung up only in this Stirring of the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits, and vanishe...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (33)
The apricot and quince are familiar yonic symbols, while the bunch of grapes and the fig are phallic. The pomegranate is the mystic fruit of the...
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. (30)
Also the new Birth blossomed in the Time of the Creation, when Man had not spoiled or corrupted it; but by him Nature was full more corrupted, and so...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (41)
World diligently, and consider what Manner of Fruit, Sprouts, and Branches, grow out of the Salitter of the Earth, from Trees, Plants, Herbs, Roots, F...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (24)
Not that the Fruits of the Earth are thereupon wholly in the Wrath of God; for the one only incorporated or compacted Word, which is immortal and...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (22)
Seeing then the Mystery presents itself to us, therefore we will open the Blossom of the Sprout: Yet we would not have our Labour given to the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 12 (1)
'Fetch me from thence a fruit of the Nyagrodha tree.' 'Here is one, Sir.' Break it.' 'It is broken, Sir.' 'What do you see there?' 'These seeds,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Use of the Symbolic Style By Poets and Philosophers. (4)
The branches either stand as the symbol of the first food, or they are that the multitude may know that fruits spring and grow universally, remaining...
Gospel of Philip
Hidden Parts (Hidden Parts)
As long as their [insides] are hidden, [most] beings in the world are alive and well. [If their insides] are exposed, they die, as is clear by the example of the visible part of a person.…
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (100)
This they drive and act so long, till all the Matter is quite dried, till the sweet Quality or sweet Water is dried up, and then the Fruit falls off,...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (13)
From this root there grow and ripen the fruits of birth, of the life-span, of all that is tasted in life.
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (7)
Behold and consider a Tree; on the Outside it has a hard gross Rind or Bark, which is dead, benumbed, and without Vegetation, yet it is not quite...
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. (5)
We must conceive, that there was then a very pleasant Habitation upon the Earth; for all the Fruits did grow [spring and bud] out of the hidden...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (15)
Tree, which is planted in the Ground, and at first is young and tender, and flourishing to the Eye, especially if it comes on lustily in its growing :...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (82)
When the sweet Quality thus flies from the bitter, sour, and astringent, then the astringent and bitter make all the haste they can after it, as...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (32)
Thus that noble Jewel (and in it the Pearl) is sown. But observe it well; it is not instantly become a Tree; O how often does the Devil rush upon it,...
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC SENTENCES, FROM THE PROTREPTICS OF IAMBLICHUS. [96] (10)
The fruits of the earth, indeed, are annually imparted, but the fruits of philosophy at every part of the year.
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. (4)
Here now stand the great Secrets (which we cannot see with our earthly Eyes) wholly naked and plain, and there is no Vail before it, only we are...
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