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Page xxxiii
... known in Egypt , Syria , and Phoenicia as Thoth , Tat , Adad , Seth , and Sat - an ( the latter not to be taken in the sense applied to it by Moslems and Christians ) , and in Greece as Kadmus . The kabalists ider.tify him with Adam ...
... known in Egypt , Syria , and Phoenicia as Thoth , Tat , Adad , Seth , and Sat - an ( the latter not to be taken in the sense applied to it by Moslems and Christians ) , and in Greece as Kadmus . The kabalists ider.tify him with Adam ...
Page xxxv
... known as grahâs , are respectively called Sukra and Manti . * It is in the latter manti or manthi cup that Brahma is said to be " stirred up . " While the initiate drinks ( albeit sparingly ) of this sacred soma - juice , the Brahma ...
... known as grahâs , are respectively called Sukra and Manti . * It is in the latter manti or manthi cup that Brahma is said to be " stirred up . " While the initiate drinks ( albeit sparingly ) of this sacred soma - juice , the Brahma ...
Page xl
... known to Europeans is not the genuine beverage , but its substi tute ; for the initiated priests alone can taste of the real soma ; and even kings and rajas , when sacrificing , receive the substitute . Haug shows by his own confession ...
... known to Europeans is not the genuine beverage , but its substi tute ; for the initiated priests alone can taste of the real soma ; and even kings and rajas , when sacrificing , receive the substitute . Haug shows by his own confession ...
Page xli
... known the disciples of Paracelsus of the sixteenth century , the so - called fire - philosophers or Philosophi per ignem . As well as the Platonists they regarded the soul ( y ) and the divine spirit , nous ( vovs ) , as a parti- cle of ...
... known the disciples of Paracelsus of the sixteenth century , the so - called fire - philosophers or Philosophi per ignem . As well as the Platonists they regarded the soul ( y ) and the divine spirit , nous ( vovs ) , as a parti- cle of ...
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... known in Palestine , India , Ceylon , Cashmere , Tartary , Thibet , China , and Japan , in all which countries it has influential correspondents . It may also in time have much to say about the conduct of the missionaries to those who ...
... known in Palestine , India , Ceylon , Cashmere , Tartary , Thibet , China , and Japan , in all which countries it has influential correspondents . It may also in time have much to say about the conduct of the missionaries to those who ...
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Page 13 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 205 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 122 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 355 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 125 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Page 270 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool : his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Page 215 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Page 86 - Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem. ' How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? ' The chasm between...
Page 574 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 558 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.