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... Ahrimanes appeared to Zoroaster to tempt him astray , and Gautama , after a night of prayer , sud- denly " attained the wisdom by which he became Buddha . " " exceeding precious ointment of spikenard " on his feet CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND ...
... Ahrimanes appeared to Zoroaster to tempt him astray , and Gautama , after a night of prayer , sud- denly " attained the wisdom by which he became Buddha . " " exceeding precious ointment of spikenard " on his feet CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND ...
Page 99
... ( Ahrimanes ) diminish ! ... Thus prays Zarathustra . " .. Gâtha Ustavaiti ( II . Gâtha ) , Yasna 43 , v . 4 , et seq . The following is styled the Inaugural Speech of Zoroaster , and is believed by Haug to have been used by the prophet ...
... ( Ahrimanes ) diminish ! ... Thus prays Zarathustra . " .. Gâtha Ustavaiti ( II . Gâtha ) , Yasna 43 , v . 4 , et seq . The following is styled the Inaugural Speech of Zoroaster , and is believed by Haug to have been used by the prophet ...
Page 100
... Ahrimanes , who offers him all power and prosperity on condition he will admit him to be God ; whereto Zoroaster replies : " Evil Glory ! It is for thee and thy race that Douzakh ( hell ) is prepared . As for me I will serve Ormuzd ...
... Ahrimanes , who offers him all power and prosperity on condition he will admit him to be God ; whereto Zoroaster replies : " Evil Glory ! It is for thee and thy race that Douzakh ( hell ) is prepared . As for me I will serve Ormuzd ...
Page 122
... ( Ahri- manes ) became a positively evil being , introducing all pain and sin into the world in opposition to Ahura- Mazda , whose servants were called on to oppose the demon and destroy his works and creatures with all their strength ...
... ( Ahri- manes ) became a positively evil being , introducing all pain and sin into the world in opposition to Ahura- Mazda , whose servants were called on to oppose the demon and destroy his works and creatures with all their strength ...
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... Ahrimanes . Modern Parsee Dustoors still explain some passages of the Zend Avesta as teaching the existence of Zeruane Akerene , but the European scholars , who have at last reduced the Zend grammar to some degree of clearness , have ...
... Ahrimanes . Modern Parsee Dustoors still explain some passages of the Zend Avesta as teaching the existence of Zeruane Akerene , but the European scholars , who have at last reduced the Zend grammar to some degree of clearness , have ...
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æsthetic Ahrimanes Ahura-Mazda animals architecture Armaiti artist Aryan race assuredly Asura asylums Avestan language beauty Brahmin brutes ceremonial character child Christ Christian church claims cloth creatures creed death divine doctrine duty eternal ethics evil existence expression faith father feel FRANCES POWER COBBE Fraser's Magazine future Greek hand happiness Haug heart heaven honour hospitals human idea immortality interest labours less living Mazda ment minds moral nation nature obligation offence original Ormuzd painter painting paradise Parsee pauper perfect perform perhaps poet poetry poor poor-laws praise prayer principle prophets pure purpose race religion religious reproduce Rich in Love sacred schools sculpture secondary self-abnegation selfish sense sentiment sins soul spirit suttee temple thing thought tion torture Translated true truth Vendidad virtue vivisections wants wherein whole woman words workhouse Yasna Zend Avesta Zoroaster Zoroastrian
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Page 383 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 427 - Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant ; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Page 433 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 255 - He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Page 308 - ... what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Page 433 - For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Page 12 - All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets : Matt, vii, 12.
Page 421 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Page 29 - Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, is in danger of the judgment ; and he who calls opprobrious names, of the council and of hell-fire.
Page 94 - Yet if, as holiest men have deem'd, there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore, To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee Aud sophists, madly vain of dubious lore...