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The Masnavi
The Elephant in a Dark Room (52-61)
Thus the more good advice Noah gave him, Neither was his father tired of advising Canaan, Nor did his advice make any impression on Canaan; While they were yet talking a violent wave Smote Canaan's head, and he was overwhelmed. Yesterday an inquirer questioned me, Since he was interested in the foregoing narrative, Saying, "The Prophet, whose words are as a seal, Said, 'Acquiescence in infidelity is infidelity.' And again, 'Acquiescence in God's ordinance
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXII (21)
For, owing to the transgression of Ham, Canaan erred, And all his seed will be destroyed from off the earth and all the residue thereof, And none spri...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXV (2)
And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: and Noah said three times with an embittered voi...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (101)
O Cain! look but upon thy Kingdom, and consider what befell thy great [grand] Father Cain, who built this Kingdom, who cried out, Woe is me! my Sins...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VIII (18)
And Noah rejnirrd that thi^ p^rti^p ^?m» fr)rjiifnr lthaTTTe-* "and for hig son*; and he remembered all had spoken with his mouth in prophecy ; for he...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter IX (14)
And thus the sons of Noah divided unto their sons in the presence of Noah their father, and he bound them all by an oath, imprecating a curse on every...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter IX (15)
And they all said, "So be it ; so be it," for themselves and their sons for ever throughout their generations till the day of judgment, on which the L...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 21: Of the Cainish, and of the Abellish Kingdom; how they are both in one another. Also of their Beginning, Rise, Essence, and Purpose; and then of their last Exit. Also of the Cainish Antichristian Church, and then of the Abellish true Christian Church; how they are both in one another, and are very difficult to be known [asunder.] Also of the Variety of Arts, States, and Orders of this World. Also of the Office of Rulers [or Magistrates,] and their Subjects; how there is a good and divine Ordinance in them all, as also a false, evil, and devilish one. Where the Providence of God is seen in all Things; and the Devil 's Deceit, Subtilty, and Malice, [is seen also] in all Things. (2)
God had not yet quite rejected him; but his malicious, murderous, and false Confidence he accursed, and would not nbe therein.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 21: Of the Cainish, and of the Abellish Kingdom; how they are both in one another. Also of their Beginning, Rise, Essence, and Purpose; and then of their last Exit. Also of the Cainish Antichristian Church, and then of the Abellish true Christian Church; how they are both in one another, and are very difficult to be known [asunder.] Also of the Variety of Arts, States, and Orders of this World. Also of the Office of Rulers [or Magistrates,] and their Subjects; how there is a good and divine Ordinance in them all, as also a false, evil, and devilish one. Where the Providence of God is seen in all Things; and the Devil 's Deceit, Subtilty, and Malice, [is seen also] in all Things. (6)
For when he saw, that he must seek for his Bread out of the Earth, and must take his Clothing from the Children of the Earth, therefore all his Busine...
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. (26)
Then God sent the Deluge [or Flood] upon the whole World, and drowned all Flesh, except Noah, who cleaved to the Word of God; he and his Sons and...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VII (20)
Si. For owing to these three things • came the flood upon the earth, namely, owing to the forni- cation wherein the Watchers against the law of their ...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter VII (10)
And tyoah awoke from his sleep and knew all that his younger son had done unto him, and he cursed his son and said : " Cursed be Canaan; an enslaved s...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (54)
Or dost thou suppose, that it is an invented Fable, [which I here write?] Do but ask thy own Mind, that will convince thee, except thou art too much c...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter X (30)
And Ham, his father, and Cush and Mizraim, his brothers, said unto him : " Thou hast settled in a land which is not thine, and which did not fall to u...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter X (32)
Cursed art thou, and cursed shalt thou be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the curse * by which we bound ourselves by an oath in the presence of the...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter X (2)
And the sons of Noah came to Noah their father, and they told him concerning the demons which were leading astray and blinding and slaying his sons' s...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CVII (3)
And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father Enoch--for he had shown to him everything in secret--he returned and showed (them) to him and ca...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXV (1)
And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (99)
Thou hast been a clear Glass (in him) of Men's own Conceits [or Opinions,] what one's own good Meaning (without the Spirit of God) is. Cain went not...