Earth

But if Christ, coming from the heavens, transfigured the body of our lowliness, conformed to the body of his glory, then this our body shall rise, which is humbled in sufferings, and cast into the earth by the very law of death.

At once the earth too is cursed — but before blessed.

self-reflective awareness of consciousness}}], takes on the stages ranging from the 'unsupported' [anāśrita] down to the level of earth.

One who knows fire as brahman, Bṛhaspati as earth, attains brahman and becomes radiant with brahminic splendor.

One of them clothes this earth, one of them became the encompasser of the atmosphere.

And he who speaks ill of a vrātya who knows thus cuts himself off from Earth, Fire, the plants, the forest trees, the creeping plants, and the forest growths.

“Thou didst take clay from the earth and make a rational animal and set it upon the earth” (2);

« The body returns to the earth, and the soul rises up with (3) the Lord who brought it into being » (4).

Now if Ceres is from bearing (for so you said), the earth itself is a goddess (and so it is held;

great Olympus began to reel horribly at the might of the bright-eyed goddess, and earth round about cried fearfully, and the sea was moved and tossed with dark waves, while foam burst forth suddenly:

Hestia, in the high dwellings of all, both deathless gods and men who walk on earth, you have gained an everlasting abode and highest honor:

and of what is proper to some of them, some is proper to the things that are above the earth and some is proper to the things that are in the earth;

As I considered these things I was delighted to think that I had found in Anaxagoras a teacher of the cause of things quite to my mind, and I thought he would tell me whether the earth is flat or round, and when he had told me that, would go on to explain the cause and the necessity of it, and would tell me the nature of the best and why it is best for the earth to be as it is;

And so one man makes the earth stay below the heavens by putting a vortex about it, and another regards the earth as a flat trough supported on a foundation of air;

may mother Earth and father Heaven give it.

May Mitra, Varuṇa, Aditi, Sindhu, Earth, and Sky grant us this.

May Mitra, Varuṇa, Aditi, Sindhu, Earth, and Sky grant us this.

Now then, if the principal works of God are heaven and earth, which God made before all things, it is fitting that they should properly be the beginning of his works, being the first made;

" I ask therefore, since the naming of Matter does not appear in Scripture, how the title of "earth" too is accommodated to it — a title already known in another kind of substance.

For he reduces the very name of earth to Matter, because the earth is what was made out of it.

Yet in the very oikonomia the Father willed the Son to be held on earth, but himself in heaven;

Hence too the apostle conceived to say that it is sown, when it is rendered back into the earth, because for seeds too the earth is a place of safekeeping, to be there laid down and thence sought back.

If the vessels themselves too fail, when out of them too it has flowed into its mother earth, it is reabsorbed as it were by a roundabout way, that from her it may be presented anew — an Adam to hear from the Lord, "Behold, Adam is become as one of us" — then truly possessed of the evil which he escaped, and of the good which he gained.

For what is more blessed than to be united with the earth, which brings forth and nourishes all things beautiful and all things good?