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Secret Teachings of All Ages
Stones, Metals and Gems (16)
One of the two tables of stone delivered by the Lawgiver to his followers stood for the oral, the other for the written traditions upon which the Rabbinical School was founded. Authorities differ widely as to the size and substance of the inferior tables. Some describe them as being so small that they could be held in the hollow of a man's hand; others declare that each table was ten or twelve cubits in length and of enormous weight. A few even deny that the tables were of stone, maintaining that they were of a wood called sedr, which, according to the Mohammedans, grows profusely in Paradise.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (7)
And perhaps the two tables themselves may be the prophecy of the two covenants. They were accordingly mystically renewed, as ignorance along with sin ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVI: Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue. (3)
That ten is a sacred number, it is superfluous to say now. And if the tables that were written were the work of God, they will be found to exhibit...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XI: The Mystical Meanings in the Proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music. (8)
And the table which was in the temple was six cubits; and its four feet were about a cubit and a half.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter I (1)
And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, tha...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter L (13)
The man who doetli any of these things on the Sabbath shall die, so that the children of Israel shall observe the Sabbaths accord- ing to the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (21)
Moses speaks only of the Tables of God, which were graven through with the Ten Commandments, so that they could see through them into the Paradise....
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXX (9)
For thus hath it been ordained and written in the heavenly tables regarding all the seed of Israel : he who defileth (it) shall surely die, and he sha...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter III (16)
The underlying idea is predestinanan. 1 According to Bet. rabba xviii., Sank. 386, Adam was only six hours in the Garden ; cf. Ptrke de R. Eliezer xvi...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter I (4)
And Moses was on the Mount forty days and forty nights, and God taught him the earlier and the later history * of the division of all the days of the ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: The Mystic Meaning of the Tabernacle and Its Furniture. (18)
The twelve stones, set in four rows on the breast, describe for us the circle of the zodiac, in the four changes of the year. It was otherwise...