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Passages similar to: The Masnavi — The Mule and the Camel
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Sufi
The Masnavi
The Mule and the Camel (51-60)
He saw it was formed of a bright emerald, Forming as it were a ring round the world, He said, "Thou mighty hill, what are other hills? Before thee they are mere playthings." The Mount replied, "Those hills are my veins, A hidden vein from me runs to every city, When God desires an earthquake under any city, Then in anger I shake that vein When He says, 'Enough,' my vein remains still, I remain still, and then haste to perform my work.
Christian Mysticism
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (103)
The mountains tremble, and the earth, the vast Abyss of sea, and towering height of hills, When on them looks the Sovereign's awful eye:
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LII (6)
And these mountains which thine eyes have seen, The mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver, And the mountain of gold...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter VIII (4)
Afterwards, about that wonderful shaking out from the earth, they say that a great mountain is the knot of lands; and the passage for the waters...
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Western Esoteric
Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII (5)
That the disturbance which below is made By exhalations of the land and water, (Which far as may be follow after heat,) Might not upon mankind wage...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXXXIII (4)
And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on...
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Western Esoteric
Inferno: Canto XIV (5)
There is a mountain there, that once was glad With waters and with leaves, which was called Ida; Now 'tis deserted, as a thing worn out. Rhea once...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (83)
Then, as if paraphrasing the expression, "Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool," he adds: "But in great heaven, He is seated firm Upon a...
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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Theory and Practice of Alchemy: Part Two (34)
It is soft, also above measure hard and stony. It is far off, and near at hand, but by the providence of God, invisible. In it are hidden most ample t...
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Sufi
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (7)
To the mountains he has given peaks for a dagger, and valleys for a belt; so that they lift up their heads in pride.
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter XXIV (2)
And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful, m...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter VIII (2)
First, Mount Albûrz arose; afterwards, the other ranges of mountains (kôfânîhâ) of the middle of the earth; for as Albûrz grew forth all the...
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Western Esoteric
Purgatorio: Canto XXI (3)
Dense clouds do not appear, nor rarefied, Nor coruscation, nor the daughter of Thaumas, That often upon earth her region shifts; No arid vapour any...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter XII (1)
On the nature of mountains it says in revelation, that, at first, the mountains have grown forth in eighteen years; and Albûrz ever grew, till the...
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Western Esoteric
Purgatorio: Canto IV (4)
Thou'lt see how of necessity must pass This on one side, when that upon the other, If thine intelligence right clearly heed." "Truly, my Master,"...
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Western Esoteric
Paradiso: Canto IX (4)
"God seeth all things, and in Him, blest spirit, Thy sight is," said I, "so that never will Of his can possibly from thee be hidden; Thy voice, then,...
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Western Esoteric
Inferno: Canto XIII (2)
I think he thought that I perhaps might think So many voices issued through those trunks From people who concealed themselves from us; Therefore the...
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Western Esoteric
Purgatorio: Canto VII (4)
Gold and fine silver, and scarlet and pearl-white, The Indian wood resplendent and serene, Fresh emerald the moment it is broken, By herbage and by...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter LXXVII (4)
I saw seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth: and thence comes forth hoar-frost, and days, seasons, and years...
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Western Esoteric
Inferno: Canto XXXI (5)
Much farther yon is he whom thou wouldst see, And he is bound, and fashioned like to this one, Save that he seems in aspect more ferocious." There nev...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 22: Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars, and Creation of the Fourth Day. (83)
For nature has indeed written in man's heart that it is better than other stones and earth; but nature could not reveal or manifest to him the ground ...
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