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... created in the beginning . The second point of the religion established by Zoroaster is to de- test the author of all physical and moral evil , Ahriman , his produc- tions , his works ; and to contribute as much as we can to give lustre ...
... created in the beginning . The second point of the religion established by Zoroaster is to de- test the author of all physical and moral evil , Ahriman , his produc- tions , his works ; and to contribute as much as we can to give lustre ...
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... created at the beginning are , as we shall see farther on , not mere mortal creatures , but the spiritual principles of nature , to whom are referred the order and harmonies which exist in the elementary , mineral , vegetable , and ...
... created at the beginning are , as we shall see farther on , not mere mortal creatures , but the spiritual principles of nature , to whom are referred the order and harmonies which exist in the elementary , mineral , vegetable , and ...
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... created . Then it created fire and water , and from their mix- ture , or when they had been created , proceeded Ormusd . Time was the creator , and preserved its empire over the creatures which it had produced . * In Boundless Time ...
... created . Then it created fire and water , and from their mix- ture , or when they had been created , proceeded Ormusd . Time was the creator , and preserved its empire over the creatures which it had produced . * In Boundless Time ...
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... created in Boundless Time ; and in the Eulma Eslam , one of the sacred Zend books , we find the following text . sending forth roots or radicles incoherently downwards into the dark and cold soil , there to absorb nutritive matter which ...
... created in Boundless Time ; and in the Eulma Eslam , one of the sacred Zend books , we find the following text . sending forth roots or radicles incoherently downwards into the dark and cold soil , there to absorb nutritive matter which ...
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... creation of the pure world , to which Ahriman opposes his impure world . The evils arising out of ignorance and spiritual darkness cannot be prevented even by God , under any other condition than that of beneficent creation , producing ...
... creation of the pure world , to which Ahriman opposes his impure world . The evils arising out of ignorance and spiritual darkness cannot be prevented even by God , under any other condition than that of beneficent creation , producing ...
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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.