History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great SystemsC. Scribner's sons, 1895 - 438 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Æsir Ahura ancestors ancient animal worship animals appear Aryan Avesta Babylonia belief belongs Brahmanism Buddha Buddhism called century chapter character China Christianity civilisation common Confucius connected Daevas deity divine doctrine doubt dwell earliest early religion early world earth Egypt Egyptian evil existence faith father founder Gathas goddess gods Greece Greek growth heaven heavenly higher Homer human hymns ideas India Islam Israel Jehovah Jewish Jews king land later legend living Mahomet Max Müller Mecca mind monotheism moral mythology nature nome objects Odin offered origin period Persian person Phenicia Phenicians priests primitive principal prophets race regarded religious Rigveda rites ritual Roman Rome sacred sacrifice savage Semitic Semitic religion soul spirit stage stories sun-god supreme Taoism temple things thought tion tribes true various Varuna Vedas Vedic whole worship Zarathustra Zeus Zoroaster
Popular passages
Page 150 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 365 - This, O Bhikkhus, is the Noble Truth of the Cessation of suffering: (it ceases with) the complete cessation of this thirst, — a cessation which consists in the absence of every passion, — with the abandoning of this thirst, with the doing away with it, with the deliverance from it, with the destruction of desire.
Page 373 - By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. Purity and impurity belong to oneself, no one can purify another.
Page 9 - Jewish religion ; we do not mean any special religion ; but we mean a mental faculty or disposition, which, independent of, nay in spite of sense and reason, enables man to apprehend the Infinite under different names, and under varying disguises.
Page 372 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. "He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me" — in those who harbor such thoughts hatred will never cease.
Page 328 - The mighty lord on high our deeds, as if at hand, espies ; The gods know all men do, though men would fain their acts disguise. Whoever stands, whoever moves, or steals from place to place, Or hides him in his secret cell, — the gods his movements trace. Wherever two together plot, and deem they are alone King Varuna is there, a third, and all their schemes are known.
Page 365 - This, O Bhikkhus, is the noble truth of the cause of suffering: thirst, that leads to rebirth, accompanied by pleasure and lust, finding its delight here and there. This thirst is threefold; namely, thirst for pleasure, thirst for existence, thirst for prosperity.
Page 372 - EARNESTNESS is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already.