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Passages similar to: Katha Upanishad — First Vallī
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Hindu
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (6)
'Look back how it was with those who came before, look forward how it will be with those who come hereafter. A mortal ripens like corn, like corn he springs up again.'
Christian Mysticism
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (4)
The budding wood bears some; in time of spring, They come. So springs one race of men, and one departs."
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Mesopotamian
Tablet X (16)
You have toiled without cease, and what have you got! Through toil you wear yourself out, you fill your body with grief, your long lifetime you are...
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Hermetic
3. The Sacred Sermon (4)
[Thus] there begins their living and their growing wise, according to the fate appointed by the revolution of the Cyclic Gods, and their deceasing...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (6)
Seeing then we clearly see and understand, that we have our Beginning altogether Earthly, and are sown in a Field (as Grain is sown in the Earth)...
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Hindu
Brahmana 9 (3.9.28)
Then he [i.e. Yajnavalkya] questioned them with these verses: — As a tree of the forest, Just so, surely, is man. His hairs are leaves. His skin the...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter VII: The Blessedness of the Martyr. (17)
No mortal exists who has not toil; He buries children, and begets others, And he himself dies, And thus mortals are afflicted."
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Hindu
Prapathaka V, Khanda 9 (2)
When he has departed, his friends carry him, as appointed, to the fire (of the funeral pile) from whence he came, from whence he sprang....
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Taoist
T'ien Tzŭ Fang. (4)
Is not that indeed a cause for sorrow? "Now you fix your attention upon something in me which, while you look, has already passed away. Yet you seek f...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (82)
Here, O man, consider thyself well, and mind what manner of seed thou sowest into the earth, the very same will spring up, and bear blossoms and...
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Gnostic
Concept of Our Great Power (2)
Know how what has departed came to be, in order that you may know how to discern what lives to become: of what appearance that aeon is, or what kind...
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Sufi
The Mule and the Camel (11-20)
The disciple's shadow is from that bough. When the shadows in the disciples cease, For, O fortunate one, how can the shadow move, Unless the tree...
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Hindu
Sankhya Yoga (2.13)
Just as the man in this body passes through the various stages of boyhood, youth, and old age, like so, he passes into another body after death. The...
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Hindu
Book II (13)
From this root there grow and ripen the fruits of birth, of the life-span, of all that is tasted in life.
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XXIII: On Marriage. (7)
"For to a man after death his children bring renown, Just as corks bear the net, Saving the fishing-line from the deep." according to the tragic poet...
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Christian Mysticism
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. (4)
And now if we look round about us every where, upon Heaven and Earth, the Stars and Elements, yet we can see and know no Way [or Passage] where we may...
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Taoist
Knowledge Travels North. (6)
"Tree-fruits and plant-fruits exhibit order in their varieties; and the relationships of man, though more difficult to be dealt with, may still be red...
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Sufi
The Sage and the Peacock (61-70)
That you cling so to present existence, O simpleton? Since the latter of your states were better than the former, You have already seen hundreds of...
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Sufi
How Adam was created out of a handful of earth brought by an Angel (31-40)
In like manner as the souls will fly into their clay, God will place in their hands their books of greed and liberality, Of sin and piety, and...
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Buddhist
Chapter X: Punishment (135)
As a cowherd with his staff drives his cows into the stable, so do Age and Death drive the life of men.
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Hindu
First Mundaka, First Khanda (7)
'As the spider sends forth and draws in its thread, as plants grow on the earth, as from every man hairs spring forth on the head and the body, thus...
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