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Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (117)
He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.
Mundaka Upanishad
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (3)
From him (when entering on creation) is born breath, mind, and all organs of sense, ether, air, light, water, and the earth, the support of all.
Asclepius
Section III (1)
That, then, from which the whole Cosmos is formed, consisteth of Four Elements—Fire, Water, Earth, and Air; Cosmos [itself is] one, [its] Soul [is]...
Asclepius
Section II (2)
All things descend from Heaven to Earth, to Water and to Air. ’Tis Fire alone, in that it is borne upwards, giveth life; that which [is carried]...
Mundaka Upanishad
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (4)
Fire (the sky) is his head, his eyes the sun and the moon, the quarters his ears, his speech the Vedas disclosed, the wind his breath, his heart the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (34)
Fire (ether) He drew forth from the water. He engraved and established by it the Throne of Glory. He fashioned the Seraphim, the Ophanim, and the Holy...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 12 (1)
For in the ether exist both sun and moon, the lightning, stars, and fire (agni). Through the ether we call, through the ether we hear, through the eth...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (69)
And as the three elements, fire, air and water, proceed from the sun and stars, and are one body in one another, and cause the living motion, and the ...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (52)
"Ether is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven; The universe is Zeus, and all above."
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (20)
Observe this too, my son; that each one of the other lives inhabiteth one portion of the Cosmos - aquatic creatures water, terrene earth, and aery...
Corpus Hermeticum
11. Mind Unto Hermes (6)
For He who makes, is in them all; not stablished in some one of them, nor making one thing only, but making all. For being Power, He energizeth in the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel (53)
The three Mothers, א מ ש, in the universe are: air, water, and fire. Heaven was created from the elementary fire (or ether) ש, the earth, comprising s...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 3 (3)
'Then that Being having said, Let me make each of these three tripartite (so that fire, water, and earth should each have itself for its principal...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka I, Khanda 9 (1)
For all these beings take their rise from the ether, and return into the ether. Ether is older than these, ether is their rest....
Corpus Hermeticum
4. The Cup or Monad (1)
Hermes: With Reason (Logos), not with hands, did the World-maker make the universal World; so that thou shouldst think of him as everywhere and...
Corpus Hermeticum
13. The Secret Sermon on the Mountain (17)
Let every nature of the World receive the utterance of my hymn! Open thou Earth! Let every bolt of the Abyss be drawn for me. Stir not, ye Trees! I...
Sefer Yetzirah
Chapter I:(10)
Second, from the Spirit he made Air and formed for speech twenty-two letters, three of which are mothers, A, M, SH, seven are double, B, G, D, K, P,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (61)
And as we perceive that in this World there are Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, also the Sun and the Stars, and therein consist all the Things of this Wo...
Corpus Hermeticum
5. Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest (9)
And as without its maker its is impossible that anything should be, so ever is He not unless He ever makes all things, in heaven, in air, in earth, in...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 14: Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate. (26)
Now thus say the three Elements (Fire, Water, and Air,) to the Spirit; Fetch us Children of the Earth, that they may dwell in our Courts, we will eat...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Elements and Their Inhabitants (2)
Air is, therefore, twofold in nature-tangible atmosphere and an intangible, volatile substratum which may be termed spiritual air. Fire is visible...
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