The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... existence was much shortened , and Brahma gave them rajahs , or princes , to rule over them . In the third age , called the Dwapar Yug , vice and virtue became equally mingled , and the lives of men were again shortened one third . The ...
... existence was much shortened , and Brahma gave them rajahs , or princes , to rule over them . In the third age , called the Dwapar Yug , vice and virtue became equally mingled , and the lives of men were again shortened one third . The ...
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... existence on the silent mountains , or amid the darkness of immense forests , infested by serpents and wild beasts , and as they believed by Evil Spirits also , greatly excited popular imagination . The human soul , unsatisfied in its ...
... existence on the silent mountains , or amid the darkness of immense forests , infested by serpents and wild beasts , and as they believed by Evil Spirits also , greatly excited popular imagination . The human soul , unsatisfied in its ...
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... existence . I possess all desirable good in seeing your sacred feet . My body is now perfectly pure , since I have had the happiness to behold you . You are the gods whom I serve . I recognize no others but you . Henceforth , I am as ...
... existence . I possess all desirable good in seeing your sacred feet . My body is now perfectly pure , since I have had the happiness to behold you . You are the gods whom I serve . I recognize no others but you . Henceforth , I am as ...
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... existence of one invisible God , whom they call Brahm . They make no images of him , and build no temples for his worship . His name is never uttered by a pious Hindoo . None of their traditions represent him as incarnated in any form ...
... existence of one invisible God , whom they call Brahm . They make no images of him , and build no temples for his worship . His name is never uttered by a pious Hindoo . None of their traditions represent him as incarnated in any form ...
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... existence in himself , out of the Divinity , it is the effect of magical illusion , by which Brahma himself , for incom- prehensible reasons , takes captive his senses . The action of Brahm upon Nature , and upon human souls , is ...
... existence in himself , out of the Divinity , it is the effect of magical illusion , by which Brahma himself , for incom- prehensible reasons , takes captive his senses . The action of Brahm upon Nature , and upon human souls , is ...
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