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... ancient conception of an ether or electric fluid , per- meating the planetary spaces and those of solar systems , and corresponds to that primal light spoken of in the book of Genesis , as anterior to that of the Sun and Moon , which ...
... ancient conception of an ether or electric fluid , per- meating the planetary spaces and those of solar systems , and corresponds to that primal light spoken of in the book of Genesis , as anterior to that of the Sun and Moon , which ...
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... ancient plani- spheres , about 2,500 years before the Christian era . The Balance was also until that period represented as a Scorpion . The develop- ment of vegetative life subsides as the earth's face declines from the From a place of ...
... ancient plani- spheres , about 2,500 years before the Christian era . The Balance was also until that period represented as a Scorpion . The develop- ment of vegetative life subsides as the earth's face declines from the From a place of ...
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... ancient planispheres as the twelve signs of the Zodiac . We understand how the operation of Ormusd , representing the course of the Sun , was said to be limited to a period of twelve , as a fixed term , to which was added the imagined ...
... ancient planispheres as the twelve signs of the Zodiac . We understand how the operation of Ormusd , representing the course of the Sun , was said to be limited to a period of twelve , as a fixed term , to which was added the imagined ...
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... ancient Christian monuments , a lamb is slain at the foot of a cross , and its blood received in a cup . The change in the symbolic form corresponds to the substitution of the lamb for the bull in the heavens , as the equinoctial sign ...
... ancient Christian monuments , a lamb is slain at the foot of a cross , and its blood received in a cup . The change in the symbolic form corresponds to the substitution of the lamb for the bull in the heavens , as the equinoctial sign ...
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... ancient traditions of the Persians , the Chaldeans , the Egyptians of Hermes and Esculapius , a young woman called in the Persian language Seclenidos de Darzama , a name translated into Arabic by Adrenidefa - i . e . , a chaste , pure ...
... ancient traditions of the Persians , the Chaldeans , the Egyptians of Hermes and Esculapius , a young woman called in the Persian language Seclenidos de Darzama , a name translated into Arabic by Adrenidefa - i . e . , a chaste , pure ...
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Page 35 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest...
Page 78 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 79 - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you; continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Page 64 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it w as born.
Page 78 - Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me : for I proceeded forth, and came from God ; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Page 35 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence : truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 64 - And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against 'the dragon ; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not ; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world : he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Page 79 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Page 35 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 79 - Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches : He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.