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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?
Apocryphon of James
Be Eager for the Word (8)
It is like a palm shoot whose dates dropped around it. It produced buds, and after they grew, its productivity dried up. This is also what happened wi...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (41)
View this world diligently, and consider what manner of fruit, sprouts, and branches grow out of the Salitter of the earth, from trees, plants,...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (28)
But that the fruits get a body other than the earth is, which body is much fuller of virtue, fairer or more beautiful, also of a better taste, relish ...
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 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 not quite dead, but...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (94)
And then also the sweet quality presseth forth in little leaves, like a woman who is in travail and bringing forth, but the little leaves or blossoms ...
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,...
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)
It was with me as with a young tree that is planted in the ground, and at first is young and tender, and flourishing to the eye, especially if it...
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,...
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 still more corrupted; and...
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...
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.
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 21: Of the Third Day. (137)
But seeing the heavenly fruits, before the time of the wrath, sprang up only in this stirring of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, and vanishe...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (92)
Yet, for all that, the astringent cannot kill the bitter, but only holds it captive, and so the strife in them is so great that the bitter breaks out ...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (34)
Of this you have a similitude in an apple, which at first is astringent, harsh or chokey, but when the sweet quality forceth and overcometh it, then...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (37)
But thou must know, however, that the apple on its stock or branch, with its innermost birth or geniture, qualifieth, mixeth or uniteth with the word ...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (98)
For the spirit draweth from the head or bud into the blossoms, and the head or bud is formed according to the kind of all the qualities; the astringen...
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.
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