self-begotten

To think that spiritual mentors are self-begotten is wrong.

A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Two: The Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to the Dharma 2009

Of course it is false, false as the father of falsehood — if indeed falsehoods need a sire and are not self-begotten since the world began.

Barchester Towers 2004

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

The Dhammapada 2003

Truth to the self-begotten Word, who is also the dispenser of the bounty of the Father.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Almost every schoolboy knows or used to know something of his story, and any number of stutterers down through the ages have emulated aspects of his self-begotten cure.

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

Almost every schoolboy knows or used to know something of his story, and any number of stutterers down through the ages have emulated aspects of his self-begotten cure.

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

And Jantu also will once more be born as a self-begotten son of thine in that very (mother); and on his back there will appear a mark of gold. "'"

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

He is the self-begotten or unbigoted, from whom proceeds His Wisdom like a hand.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

And this book stands alone, absolutely self-begotten and self-born.

The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912

He had seen in his time many quarrels spring from the flimsiest of motives, but surely never had he seen one quite so self-begotten.

Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912