Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of Ancient Egypt: Delivered in May and June, 1879Williams & Norgate, 1880 - 259 pages |
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... BOOKS OF EGYPT . PAGE 104 • 109 · 110 • • 113 115 116 119 124 127 147 152 154 155 157 158 159 161 The Book of the Dead 172 Beatification of the dead 179 · The renewed existence " " as upon earth ” . 180 Transformation 181 Identification ...
... BOOKS OF EGYPT . PAGE 104 • 109 · 110 • • 113 115 116 119 124 127 147 152 154 155 157 158 159 161 The Book of the Dead 172 Beatification of the dead 179 · The renewed existence " " as upon earth ” . 180 Transformation 181 Identification ...
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... books LECTURE VI . PAGE 191 • 192 • 194 200 RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND HYMNS HENOTHEISM , PANTHEISM AND MATERIALISM . Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys Book of glorifying Osiris Book of the Breaths of Life . Rhind papyri Magical literature ...
... books LECTURE VI . PAGE 191 • 192 • 194 200 RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND HYMNS HENOTHEISM , PANTHEISM AND MATERIALISM . Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys Book of glorifying Osiris Book of the Breaths of Life . Rhind papyri Magical literature ...
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... books . " Spurious monuments served the purposes of these interpreters quite as well as genuine ones . In the " Isiac table " Kircher discovered a variety of sacred mysteries favourable to Christianity ; Pegnorius read in it precepts 10 ...
... books . " Spurious monuments served the purposes of these interpreters quite as well as genuine ones . In the " Isiac table " Kircher discovered a variety of sacred mysteries favourable to Christianity ; Pegnorius read in it precepts 10 ...
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... Book of the Dead written in hieroglyphics are placed side by side with the same passages copied from hieratic manuscripts , and the identity is made apparent to the most unlearned eye . And if , as Klaproth asserts , Champollion had ...
... Book of the Dead written in hieroglyphics are placed side by side with the same passages copied from hieratic manuscripts , and the identity is made apparent to the most unlearned eye . And if , as Klaproth asserts , Champollion had ...
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... books . They have left poetry of the highest order , but no psalms or hymns , litanies or prayers , as the Egyptians have so largely done . No people certainly were more remote than the Egyptians from the idea that religion could exist ...
... books . They have left poetry of the highest order , but no psalms or hymns , litanies or prayers , as the Egyptians have so largely done . No people certainly were more remote than the Egyptians from the idea that religion could exist ...
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abode Abydos Akerblad Amenhotep II Amon ancient Egypt Anubis Book Brugsch called Chabas Champollion chapter character Christian coffin Coptic Dead deceased deity Dendera derived divine doctrine earth Egyp Egyptian language Egyptian religion Egyptian texts Egyptian word eighteenth dynasty eleventh dynasty evidence existence expressed father feast funereal genius goddess gods Greek hath Hathor heart heaven Hebrew Heliopolis hieratic hieroglyphic Horus hymns Indo-European inscriptions Isis king language legend Lepsius living Lord Maat manuscripts Mariette Max Müller meaning monuments mother Museum myth mythology nature Nephthys nether world Nile notion nutar nutra Osiris papyrus period person prayers Ptah Pyramids quoted Rameses reign religious Renenet represented Rougé royal sacred says scholars Semitic Seti signifies soul sovereign speak sun-god symbol tablet Tefnut Tehutimes temple Thebes thee thine things thou art thou hast tion tombs translated verb worship writing written
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Page 99 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 70 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 107 - Look up and see the sun as a bridegroom richly dressed, and greatly pleased, coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race...
Page 103 - is not far from any one of us, for in Him we live and move and have our being...
Page 74 - Doing that which is right and hating that which is wrong, I was bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, a refuge to him that was in want; that which I did to him, the great God hath done to me.
Page 69 - ... more than two cubits, and as it is shown to the guests in rotation, the bearer exclaims, " Cast your eyes on this figure, after death you yourself will resemble it ; drink then, and be happy.
Page 217 - When these individual gods are invoked, they are not conceived as limited by the power of others, as superior or inferior in rank. Each god is to the mind of the supplicant as good as all the gods. He is felt, at the time, as a real divinity — as supreme and absolute, in spite of the necessary limitations which, to our mind, a plurality of gods must entail on every single god.
Page 243 - La mort a des rigueurs à nulle autre pareilles : On a beau la prier, La cruelle qu'elle est se bouche les oreilles, Et nous laisse crier. Le pauvre en sa cabane, où le chaume le couvre, Est sujet à ses lois; Et la garde qui veille aux barrières du Louvre N'en défend point nos Rois. De murmurer contre elle et perdre patience II est mal à propos ; Vouloir ce que Dieu veut est la seule science Qui nous met en repos.
Page 240 - Venus, caeli subter labentia signa quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis. te, dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila caeli adventumque tuum, tibi sua vis daedala tellus summittit flores, tibi rident aequora ponti placatumque nitet diffuso lumine caelum.
Page 109 - I look upon the sunrise and sunset, on the daily return of day and night, on the battle between light and darkness, on the whole solar drama in all its details that is acted every day, every month, every year, in heaven and in earth, as the principal subject of early mythology.