The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... recorded dates , and explained phrases , sup- posed to be generally understood , because I know there are many in- telligent readers not familiar with such dates and phrases , and who cannot conveniently refer to cyclopedias , or ...
... recorded dates , and explained phrases , sup- posed to be generally understood , because I know there are many in- telligent readers not familiar with such dates and phrases , and who cannot conveniently refer to cyclopedias , or ...
Page 84
... recorded : " It was at the close of the Dwapar Yug , that he who is omnipresent and everlastingly to be contemplated , the Supreme Being , the Eternal One , the Divinity worthy to be adored , appeared in this ocean of natural beings ...
... recorded : " It was at the close of the Dwapar Yug , that he who is omnipresent and everlastingly to be contemplated , the Supreme Being , the Eternal One , the Divinity worthy to be adored , appeared in this ocean of natural beings ...
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... recorded of him that he spent six years in continual silent contemplation , resist- ing manifold temptations sent to try him . During this time , five Holy Scriptures descended to him , he was en- dowed with the gift of prophecy , and ...
... recorded of him that he spent six years in continual silent contemplation , resist- ing manifold temptations sent to try him . During this time , five Holy Scriptures descended to him , he was en- dowed with the gift of prophecy , and ...
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... recorded that he assisted Priam , king of Troy , against the invasion of the Greeks . Homer calls them " the blameless men ; " and relates that Jupiter , at certain seasons of the year , left Olympus and went to spend twelve days in ...
... recorded that he assisted Priam , king of Troy , against the invasion of the Greeks . Homer calls them " the blameless men ; " and relates that Jupiter , at certain seasons of the year , left Olympus and went to spend twelve days in ...
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... recorded to have been in the desert , at a little distance from the city . Modern travellers have discovered the ruins of a temple in the desert , near the collection of small pyramids . Rams ' horns are sculptured in many places on the ...
... recorded to have been in the desert , at a little distance from the city . Modern travellers have discovered the ruins of a temple in the desert , near the collection of small pyramids . Rams ' horns are sculptured in many places on the ...
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