General Sketch of the History of Pantheism, Volume 1Beacon, 1878 |
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Aditi Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes appears atheists atoms attained authority believed birth body Brâhma Brahmanic bridegroom Bruno Buddha Buddhism called Calvin Catholic cause century ceremonies chapter Christ Christians Church civilisation dæmons death deceased declared deities disciples divine doctrine earnest earth Egypt Egyptians Eleatics eternal evil existence faith father fire force gods Greek heaven Heraclitus Hindu Hindu nation holy ignorance immortal infinite intellect intelligence Ionian school Ionians knowledge Kreeshna light living Max Müller Michael Servetus mind motion mystery nature Neo-Platonists never object oblation opinions Pantheism Parmenides pervaded philo philosophy Plato Plotinus Polytheism prayer principle Proclus Pyrrho Pythagoras reality reason religion religious Rig-Veda scepticism seems sense Servetus Socrates soul spirit substance supreme teaching Thales thee things thou thought true truth universe utter utterly Vanini Vedas whence whole wonderful words worship Yajur-Veda Zenophanes
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Page 362 - Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter ; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out. and wept bitterly.
Page 36 - Was it the water's fathomless abyss ? There was not death — yet was there nought immortal. There was no confine betwixt day and night ; The only One breathed breathless by itself, Other than It there nothing since has been. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound — an ocean without light — The germ that still lay covered in the husk Burst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat. Then first came love upon it, the new spring Of mind — yea, poets in their hearts discerned,...
Page 108 - I am made evident by my own power ; and as often as there is a decline of virtue, and an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world, I make myself evident; and thus I appear from age to age for the preservation of the just, the destruction of the wicked, and the establishment of virtue.
Page 46 - Aditi, an ancient god or goddess, is in reality the earliest name invented to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse, beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky.
Page 270 - Brouncker's native sagacity had not deserted his ghost, he would need no long reflection to discover that all these great ships, these railways, these telegraphs, these factories, these printingpresses, without which the whole fabric of modern English society would collapse . into a mass of stagnant and starving pauperism, — that all these pillars of our State are but the ripples and the bubbles upon the surface of that great spiritual stream, the springs of which only, he and his fellows were...
Page 76 - He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person. He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed...
Page 7 - Force, Force, everywhere Force ; we ourselves a mysterious Force in the centre of that. ' There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?
Page 30 - When these individual gods are invoked,' I said (p. 532), '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 suppliant 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 86 - He is small and weak, his flesh and his blood are dried up, his muscles stick to his skin, his head is white, his teeth chatter, his body is wasted away ; leaning on his stick he is hardly able to walk, stumbling at every step. Is there something peculiar in his family, or is this the common lot of all created beings ? "