Theosophy: Or, Psychological Religion : the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Glasgow in 1892Longmans, Green, 1917 - 595 pages |
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admit Agni Ahura Ahuramazda ancient Aryan Asuras Avesta become belief body Brahman bridge called Christ Christian Church Clement conceived concept death Deity Devas Dionysius Dionysius the Areopagite divine doctrines doubt earth Eckhart essence eternal evil existence expressed faith Father Fravashis Godhead gods Gospel Greece Greek philosophy heaven Heraclitus highest historical Holy human soul hymns idea immortal India individual soul Infinite Jewish knowledge language Lectures light Logos Mazda means meant metempsychosis mind moon mystic mythological nature Neo-Platonists nescience never object origin passages perfect Persian phenomenal Philo philosophical Plato Plotinus Pragâpati Râmânuga recognised religion religious Rig-veda Sacred Books Sankara Sanskrit seems sense speak spirit Stoics Sufi supposed Supreme Sûtras teaching Testament Thee Theosophy things thou thought throne tion translation true truth Upanishads Varuna Veda Vedanta Vedântist Vedic words Xenophanes Yasna Zend Zoroaster καὶ τοῦ
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Page 517 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Page 3 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Page 6 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 37 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 54 - And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Page 503 - OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN. IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Page 204 - ... the world below, has knowledge of them all; and it is no wonder that she should be able to call to remembrance all that she ever knew about virtue and about everything; for as all nature is akin, and the soul has learned all things, there is no difficulty in her eliciting, or as men say learning, out of a single recollection, all the rest, if a man is strenuous and does not faint; for all inquiry and all learning is but recollection.
Page 577 - THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE, Founded on Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution in 1861 and 1863. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. , sis. BIOGRAPHIES OF WORDS, AND THE HOME OF THE ARYAS. Crown 8vo., js. 6d. Max Miiller (F.) — continued. THREE LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE, AND ITS PLACE IN GENERAL EDUCATION, delivered at Oxford, 1889.
Page 247 - When a man, being asleep, reposing, and at perfect rest, sees no dreams, that is the Self, this is the immortal, the fearless, this is Brahman.
Page 214 - Thus shall we live dear to one another and to the gods, both while remaining here and when, like conquerors in the games who go round to gather gifts, we receive our reward. And it shall be well with us both in this life and in the pilgrimage of a thousand years which we have been describing.