Natural ReligionAsian Educational Services, 1979 - 608 pages |
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Page 222
... existence of any supernatural beings form a mere vanishing quantity , would make no impression whatever on those who consider that the very word supernatural has no right to exist and should be expunged in our dictionary . I do not wish ...
... existence of any supernatural beings form a mere vanishing quantity , would make no impression whatever on those who consider that the very word supernatural has no right to exist and should be expunged in our dictionary . I do not wish ...
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... existence or the non - existence of God , there was the old Greek word Agnoia which would have avoided the ambiguity of the word Agnosticism . For Agnosticism seems at first sight merely the opposite of Gnosticism , and it has to be ...
... existence or the non - existence of God , there was the old Greek word Agnoia which would have avoided the ambiguity of the word Agnosticism . For Agnosticism seems at first sight merely the opposite of Gnosticism , and it has to be ...
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... existence of such a Lord has never been established ( Sânkhya - sûtras , I. 92 ) . From his own point of view the concept of an Îsvara or Lord , as defined by the Yogins , would be self - contradictory ( I. 95 ) , and , as he points out ...
... existence of such a Lord has never been established ( Sânkhya - sûtras , I. 92 ) . From his own point of view the concept of an Îsvara or Lord , as defined by the Yogins , would be self - contradictory ( I. 95 ) , and , as he points out ...
Contents
LECTURE I | 1 |
LECTURE II | 27 |
the infinite led to religious ideas Tangible semitangible | 43 |
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