The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... consecrated emblem . Invisible , pervading all space , and necessary to the life of all creatures , it naturally suggests the spirit of God . Nearly all languages describe the soul by some phrase similar in signification to " the breath ...
... consecrated emblem . Invisible , pervading all space , and necessary to the life of all creatures , it naturally suggests the spirit of God . Nearly all languages describe the soul by some phrase similar in signification to " the breath ...
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... consecrated groves and fountains . Sir James Forbes speaks of a Mahometan who , bathing in one of their sacred pools , unconscious of prohibition , had both his hands cut off . If a member of any other nation happens to enter the hut of ...
... consecrated groves and fountains . Sir James Forbes speaks of a Mahometan who , bathing in one of their sacred pools , unconscious of prohibition , had both his hands cut off . If a member of any other nation happens to enter the hut of ...
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... consecrated air be polluted by inferior breath . The most sanctified among these priests are not only venerated , but absolutely wor- shipped with low prostration , when they appear in public . Some of them are believed to be incarnated ...
... consecrated air be polluted by inferior breath . The most sanctified among these priests are not only venerated , but absolutely wor- shipped with low prostration , when they appear in public . Some of them are believed to be incarnated ...
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... consecrated caste . In such a state of things , any doctrine that undermined their exclu- sive privileges would of course find adherents . A school of rationalists appeared in Hindostan , many centuries ago , called Sankhya ; a word ...
... consecrated caste . In such a state of things , any doctrine that undermined their exclu- sive privileges would of course find adherents . A school of rationalists appeared in Hindostan , many centuries ago , called Sankhya ; a word ...
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... consecrated order . When and how Buddhists came to have a separate priesthood of their own cannot be traced . The animosity of Bramins would naturally drive them to the expedient of having religious ceremonies performed by their own ...
... consecrated order . When and how Buddhists came to have a separate priesthood of their own cannot be traced . The animosity of Bramins would naturally drive them to the expedient of having religious ceremonies performed by their own ...
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