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... objects on which man is called to exert his energies , by the thought of their source , and endeavored to spiritualize and charm the labors of the poor . HISTORICAL NOTICE . ANTIQUITY Shows us few personages as celebrated PREFACE. ...
... objects on which man is called to exert his energies , by the thought of their source , and endeavored to spiritualize and charm the labors of the poor . HISTORICAL NOTICE . ANTIQUITY Shows us few personages as celebrated PREFACE. ...
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... called books of Abraham . They contain no quotations from the Psalms , nor a word of the Jews and their patriarchs . The historian Hermippus , praised by Pliny for his exactness , confidently cites works of Zoro- aster about 240 or 250 ...
... called books of Abraham . They contain no quotations from the Psalms , nor a word of the Jews and their patriarchs . The historian Hermippus , praised by Pliny for his exactness , confidently cites works of Zoro- aster about 240 or 250 ...
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... called Saddere . But it seems that in the time of Hom , the law had not that ap- paratus of ceremonies which afterwards accompanied it , and that but few persons followed it . This induced Ormusd to propose it anew to Djemschid , a son ...
... called Saddere . But it seems that in the time of Hom , the law had not that ap- paratus of ceremonies which afterwards accompanied it , and that but few persons followed it . This induced Ormusd to propose it anew to Djemschid , a son ...
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... called Kosti to be worn . ment of six feasts , called Gahanbars , is attributed to him . He paid special respect to fire . And the simple law , which recognized one supreme being and two subordinate principles , and whose few feasts and ...
... called Kosti to be worn . ment of six feasts , called Gahanbars , is attributed to him . He paid special respect to fire . And the simple law , which recognized one supreme being and two subordinate principles , and whose few feasts and ...
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... called Ormusd in the Zend books . Amongst the productions of the first principle , some are themselves creative , as Ormusd and Ahriman : others simply exert their action on what exists . Such are the light , the water . Light and ...
... called Ormusd in the Zend books . Amongst the productions of the first principle , some are themselves creative , as Ormusd and Ahriman : others simply exert their action on what exists . Such are the light , the water . Light and ...
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according action adoration Ahriman ancient angels animal APPENDIX ON SOLAR Avesta Bacchus beautiful beneficent birth body Bull Caiomorrh called celebrated celestial character chief Christ Christian constellation corresponds created creatures Cuzco dæmons darkness Darvand death Deity destiny Dews divine doctrines dwellings earth eternal existence Father Ferouers fire forms genii Gods Goshoroun happiness harmony hath heart heaven hell holy honor human Hydropathy Inca incarnation individual intellect izeschne lamb light live Magian maleficent Meschia mind Mithra mortal mountains mystical nature organic Osiris Parsees passions Persian Peru Peruvian Phrenology Physiology Pivot planet planet souls planetary Plato Plutarch priests produced pure race relation render resurrection sacred says Ormusd says Zoroaster senses social SOLAR DYNASTY SOLAR RELIGIONS soul sphere spiritual stars SUN WORSHIP Synesius thee things tion true truth Typhon unitary unity unto vegetable vernal equinox virgin virtue Water-Cure word worship Zend books
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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.