Waters
object · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Waters the group · Waters the idea · Waters the deity
the waters · the liquid element · the sacrament of our water · water
spoken of as
1 expressionWater2 mentions
De Baptismo (Latin) · Bṛhaspati Smṛti (Sanskrit)
Therefore all waters, from the prerogative of their original origin, attain the sacrament of sanctification when God is invoked.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The waters, treated as cosmic agents in the origin riddle, as the medium of a purification charm, and as an entity drawn to the knowing Vrātya.
You are the foremost of waters;
Released is the bull of the waters;
I release all these away from here;
De Baptismo
The physical element of water, treated as the sanctified material vehicle of baptism.
Therefore all waters, from the prerogative of their original origin, attain the sacrament of sanctification when God is invoked.
These two baptisms he sent forth from the wound of his pierced side, to the end that those who believed in his blood might be washed with water, and those who had washed with water might also drink his blood.
If from this point I should go on to pursue all, or many, the things I might recall concerning the authority of this element, how great its power or its grace, how many its devices, how many its offices, how great an instrument it brings to the world, I fear I might seem to have gathered together the praises of water rather than the rationale of baptism — though by that I would teach the more full …
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
One of the pure substances placed in court as an instrument of proof, associated with sustenance of creatures.
water is for thirsty creatures.
gold, fire, water, and his own officer are the ten instruments of proof.
Gold, fire, and water are the eyes, the heart is the king's conscience, and his own officer is the feet.