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The Masnavi
The Lover and his Mistress (1-10)
The lover invoked blessings on that rough patrol, They were poison to most men, but sweets to him, In the world there is nothing absolutely bad; Know, moreover, evil is only relative. In the world there is neither poison nor antidote, Which is not a foot to one and a fetter to another; To one the power of moving, to another a clog; To one a poison, to another an antidote. Serpents' poison is life to serpents, To the creatures of the sea the sea is a garden,
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (159)
From thence existed the first poison, wherein we poor men now in this world have enough to chew upon, and thereby the bitter poisonous death is come...
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, and from the sour and astringent, then the astringent and the bitter make all the haste they can...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (149)
There the bitter quality raveth and rageth, and seeketh for rest and food, and finds it not, and moveth or boileth in the body as a lingering poison.
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (83)
The gracious, amiable and blessed love which rose up in the flash of the life, became a fierce and bitter venom or poison, a very murderous den, a...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (144)
Thou hast many examples thereof in this world, that if some creature or man look upon a thing, it perishes because of the poison or venom in the...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXLIX (24)
Thou shalt not come towards me, thy venom will not penetrate into me. Thy poison is fallen and thrown down, and thy lips are in a hole
Dhammapada
Chapter IX: Evil (124)
He who has no wound on his hand, may touch poison with his hand; poison does not affect one who has no wound; nor is there evil for one who does not...
Pyramid Texts
Charms, Utterances 275-299 (285)
Spit both out now, 426 for they two are rich in water. O thou who winkest, thou . who art (adorned with) a head-band, O s.w, 426 rain, that the serpen...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (335)
Whomsoever this fierce thirst overcomes, full of poison, in this world, his sufferings increase like the abounding Bîrana grass.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 12: Of the Opening of the Holy Scripture, that the Circumstances may be highly considered. The golden Gate, which God affords to the last World, wherein the Lily shall flourish [and blossom.] (30)
Of the Death and of the Dying. The Gate of Affliction and of Misery.
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (91)
And then the sweet quality yieldeth to be taken captive, and so the bitter, the sour, the sweet and the astringent reign jointly together, and the swe...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XVII (6)
This threefold love is wept for down below; Now of the other will I have thee hear, That runneth after good with measure faulty. Each one confusedly a...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (51)
And first the sweet. For in the sweet water the bitter spirit is refreshed, and therein it quencheth its great thirst; and its bitterness is therein m...
Authoritative Teaching
Authoritative Teaching (17)
Now all such things the adversary prepares beautifully and spreads out before the body, wishing to make the mind of the soul incline her toward one...
Chapter 15: Of the Third Species, Kind or Form and Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer. (40)
Here, in this quality, the life was turned into a sting of death; for through heat the bitter quality grew so fierce, stinging, raging and burning,...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (18)
The bitter quality qualifieth in the sweet, and in the astringent (or harsh and sour) quality, and the love riseth up therein from eternity to...
Enuma Elish
Tablet II (22)
"With poison instead of blood she hath filled their bodies
Enuma Elish
Tablet III (84)
"With poison instead of blood she hath filled their bodies
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (83)
And the sweet spring water became very thick and stinking, and the bitter quality became very raging, tearing and raving, whence poison was generated,...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (80)
And the sweet quality always flies from the bitter and the astringent, and always stretcheth its palate wider, and the bitter and the astringent conti...
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