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Page 12
... have been repeatedly incarnated on earth , for beneficent purposes . His
beautiful wife Lacshmi on such occasions assumes a female form and
accompanies him among mortals , till his mission is completed . No bloody
sacrifices are offered ...
... have been repeatedly incarnated on earth , for beneficent purposes . His
beautiful wife Lacshmi on such occasions assumes a female form and
accompanies him among mortals , till his mission is completed . No bloody
sacrifices are offered ...
Page 17
Lamps are kept burning before it , and on festival occasions it is illuminated by a
lamp with seven branches , supposed to represent the planets . Small images of
this emblem , carved in ivory , gold , or crystal , are often worn as ornaments ...
Lamps are kept burning before it , and on festival occasions it is illuminated by a
lamp with seven branches , supposed to represent the planets . Small images of
this emblem , carved in ivory , gold , or crystal , are often worn as ornaments ...
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This complete abstraction of the soul from the body , by solitude , prolonged fasts
, and physical torture , may well be supposed to occasion strange states of
nervous irritability and exaltation ; but the promised bliss , the miraculous power ,
and ...
This complete abstraction of the soul from the body , by solitude , prolonged fasts
, and physical torture , may well be supposed to occasion strange states of
nervous irritability and exaltation ; but the promised bliss , the miraculous power ,
and ...
Page 62
On one occasion , a great serpent poisoned the river , so that the cows and the
shepherd - boys , who drank of the water , lay dead on the banks in great
numbers . Crishna merely looked on them with an eye of divine mercy , and they
all came ...
On one occasion , a great serpent poisoned the river , so that the cows and the
shepherd - boys , who drank of the water , lay dead on the banks in great
numbers . Crishna merely looked on them with an eye of divine mercy , and they
all came ...
Page 92
Some learned Bramins of the present day smile at terrible descriptions of the
hells , in their Sacred Books , as bugbears fit only for the ignorant . Even so far
back as Crishna ' s time , he had occasion to declare : “ There are those who
know not ...
Some learned Bramins of the present day smile at terrible descriptions of the
hells , in their Sacred Books , as bugbears fit only for the ignorant . Even so far
back as Crishna ' s time , he had occasion to declare : “ There are those who
know not ...
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Page 400 - And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page 398 - And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people ; now, therefore, let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them ; and I will make of thee a great nation.
Page 417 - And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
Page 427 - And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all. And he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 399 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 405 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 404 - The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart...
Page 428 - And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
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| Title | The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks Volume 1 of The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Lydia Maria Child |
| Author | Lydia Maria Child |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 Nov 2005 |
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