Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religions of India: Delivered in the Chapter House, Westminster Abbey, in April, May, and June, 1878 |
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... sacred disease1 . Such a saying , whatever we may think of its truth , shows , at all events , that religion and the ... sacred disease , nor can sacred disease be taken here either in the sense of great and fearful disease , or in the ...
... sacred disease1 . Such a saying , whatever we may think of its truth , shows , at all events , that religion and the ... sacred disease , nor can sacred disease be taken here either in the sense of great and fearful disease , or in the ...
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... sacred annals , how the finite mind has tried to pierce further and further into the infinite , to gain new aspects of it , and to raise the dark perception of it into more lucid intuitions and more definite names . There may be much ...
... sacred annals , how the finite mind has tried to pierce further and further into the infinite , to gain new aspects of it , and to raise the dark perception of it into more lucid intuitions and more definite names . There may be much ...
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... sacred relics , something in fact like what they themselves would call feitiço ? As they discovered no other traces of any religious worship , they concluded very naturally that this outward show of regard for these feitiços constituted ...
... sacred relics , something in fact like what they themselves would call feitiço ? As they discovered no other traces of any religious worship , they concluded very naturally that this outward show of regard for these feitiços constituted ...
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... sacred trinkets . The trade in such articles was perfectly recognised in Europe during the middle ages , as it is still among the negroes of Africa . A manufacturer or seller of them was called feitiçero , a word which , however , was ...
... sacred trinkets . The trade in such articles was perfectly recognised in Europe during the middle ages , as it is still among the negroes of Africa . A manufacturer or seller of them was called feitiçero , a word which , however , was ...
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... sacred objects , talismans . The negroes offer them worship , address their prayers to them , perform sacri- fices , carry them about in procession , consult them on great occasions . They swear by them , and such oaths are never broken ...
... sacred objects , talismans . The negroes offer them worship , address their prayers to them , perform sacri- fices , carry them about in procession , consult them on great occasions . They swear by them , and such oaths are never broken ...
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¹ Rig-Veda Aditi Aditya Agni ancient Aryans Asha asura atheism believe body Brahman breath called comprehend concept creatures darkness dawn death deities Devas divine doubt Dyaus everything existence express fact faith father fetishism finite fire forest gods grammatical gender Greek growth heart heaven and earth Henotheism highest human hymns Ibid idea immortal India Indra infinite invisible language Latin literature living look lord Maitreyî meaning mind Mitra monotheism moon mountains nature negroes never objects ourselves path of Rita perceive perception philosophers polytheism Pragâpati praise primitive Purânas recognised religion religious thought Rig-Veda rivers root sacred sacrifices Sanskrit savage Savitri seems semi-tangible senses sensuous solar deities speak stone supposed supreme Sûrya Sûtras thee things thou thunder translate trees tribes true Upanishads Varuna Veda Vedic poets Vedic religion Waitz word worship Zend Zeus
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Page 14 - And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Page 371 - For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Page 118 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 279 - The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining...
Page 265 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Page 223 - And call no man your father upon the earth ; for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Page 295 - He through whom the sky is bright and the earth firm ; He through whom the heaven was...
Page 316 - Who knows the secret ? Who proclaimed it here Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang ? The Gods themselves came later into being. Who knows from whence this great creation sprang...
Page 336 - That Self cannot be gained by the Veda, nor by understanding, nor by much learning. He whom the Self chooses, by him the Self can be gained.
Page 336 - As the one fire, after it has entered the world, though one, becomes different according to whatever it burns, thus the one Self within all things 'becomes different, according to whatever it enters, and exists also without.