Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · blog0.755

   Diamedes saith:- Thou hast spoken already, O Moses [Custos], in an ungrudging manner, as became thee; I will also confirm thy words, passing over the hardness of the elements which the wise desire to remove, this disposition being most precious in their eyes. Know, O ye seekers after this doctrine, that man does not proceed except from a man; that only which is like unto themselves is begotten from brute animals; and so also with flying creatures. I have treated these matters in compendious fashion, exalting you towards the truth, who yourselves omit prolixity, for Nature is truly not improved…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/turba-philosophorum-part-2.md

2. 02 · blog0.750

   Then there was the belief, that the god to whom the place was dedicated would come down to such a sanctuary, which thus became, as it were, the stepping-stone between heaven and earth. Sacrifices were also offered at these temple-towers (whether on the highest point or not is not quite certain), in imitation of the Chaldæan Noah, Ut-napištim, who, on coming out of the ark, made an offering /ina zikkurat šadê/, "on the peak of the mountain," in which passage, it is to be noted, the word /zikkurat/ occurs with what is probably a more original meaning. CHAPTER III THE BABYLONIAN STORY OF THE CREA…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/the-religion-of-babylonia-and-assyria-internet-sacred-text-archive.md

3. 03 · blog0.745

   Let this, then, be our invocation of the Gods, to which I add an exhortation of myself to speak in such manner as will be most intelligible to you, and will most accord with my own intent. First then, in my judgment, we must make a distinction and ask, What is that which always is and has no becoming; and what is that which is always becoming and never is? That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is. Now…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/timaeus.md

4. 04 · blog0.743

   Ye are the saplings which the hand of Loving-kindness hath planted in the soil of mercy, and which the showers of bounty have made to flourish. He hath protected you from the mighty winds of misbelief, and the tempestuous gales of impiety, and nurtured you with the hands of His loving providence. Now is the time for you to put forth your leaves, and yield your fruit. The fruits of the tree of man have ever been and are goodly deeds and a praiseworthy character. Withhold not these fruits from the heedless. If they be accepted, your end is attained, and the purpose of life achieved. If not, leav…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/epistle-to-the-son-of-the-wolf-internet-sacred-text-archive.md

5. 05 · blog0.739

   The prelude is charming, and is already accepted by us-may we beg of you to proceed to the strain? Tim. Let me tell you then why the creator made this world of generation. He was good, and the good can never have any jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be. This is in the truest sense the origin of creation and of the world, as we shall do well in believing on the testimony of wise men: God desired that all things should be good and nothing bad, so far as this was attainable. Wherefore also finding the whole visi…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/timaeus.md

6. 06 · blog0.738

   And he:- When ye shall perceive that the natures have become water by reason of the heat of the fire, and that they have been purified, and that the whole body of Magnesia is liquefied as water; then all things have been made vapour, and rightly, for then the vapour contains its own equal, wherefore the envious call either vapour, because both are joined in decoctions, and one contains the other. Thus our stag finds no path to escape, although flight be essential to it. The one keeps back the other, so that it has no opportunity to fly, and it finds no place to escape; hence all are made perma…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/turba-philosophorum-part-2.md

7. 07 · blog0.738

   If thou be an emissary sent from one noble to another, be exact after the manner of him that sent thee, give his message even as he hath said it. Beware of making enmity by thy words, setting one noble against the other by perverting truth. Overstep it not, neither repeat that which any man, be he prince or peasant, saith in opening the heart; it is abhorrent to the soul. 9. If thou have ploughed, gather thine harvest in the field, and the God shall make it great under thine hand. Fill not thy mouth at any neighbor's table . . . 1 If a crafty man be the possessor of wealth, he stealeth like a …

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/chapter-iii.md

8. 08 · yt0.736

   And we bring that prejudice to bear on our interpretation of the line, then that is a constructive way into the circle according to Heidegger and Gadamer. The bad prejudice is when we leap to the conclusion, without thinking for a moment that there might be some other historical horizon, that we know what plastic means. The reason we can tell the difference, by the way, is that if we invoke the eighteenth-century meaning of plastic, we immediately see that the line makes perfect sense, that it's perfectly reasonable and not even particularly notable; but if we bring our own meaning to bear-- t…

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9. 09 · blog0.736

   Sin [LX.] Sura XLIII.--Ornaments of Gold [LXI.] Sura LXXII.--Djinn [LXII.] Sura LXVII.--The Kingdom [LXIII.] Sura XXIII.--The Believers [LXIV.] Sura XXI.--The Prophets [LXV.] Sura XXV.--Al Furkan [LXVI.] Sura XVII.--The Night Journey [LXVII.] Sura XXVII.--The Ant [LXVIII.] Sura XVIII.--The Cave [LXIX.] Sura XXXII.--Adoration [LXX.] Sura XLI.--The Made Plain [LXXI.] Sura XLV.--The Kneeling [LXXII.] Sura XVI.--The Bee [LXXIII.] Sura XXX.--The Greeks [LXXIV.] Sura XI.--Houd [LXXV.] Sura XIV.--Abraham, On Whom Be Peace [LXXVI.] Sura XII.--Joseph, Peace Be On Him [LXXVII.] Sura XL.--The Believer [L…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/the-koran.md

10. 10 · blog0.736

    He asks to be buried, to be sprinkled with his own moisture and slowly calcined till he shall arise in glowing form from the fierce fire... Behold a wondrous restoration and renewal of the Ethiopian! Because of the bath of rebirth he takes a new name, which the philosophers call the natural sulphur and their son, this being the stone of the philosophers. And behold it is one thing, one root, one essence with nothing extraneous added and from which much that was superfluous is taken away by the magistery of the art... It is the treasure of treasures, the supreme philosophical potion, the divine…

    blog/www-sacred-texts-com/an-alchemical-mass.md