The unseen universe; or, Physical speculations on a future state [by B. Stewart and P.G. Tait].1875 |
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... pass into another form . ” 1 Anubis held in Egypt an office similar to that of Mercury among the Greeks , being the usher of souls in their passage to the future state . Amenti was the region to which the souls of men were supposed to ...
... pass into another form . ” 1 Anubis held in Egypt an office similar to that of Mercury among the Greeks , being the usher of souls in their passage to the future state . Amenti was the region to which the souls of men were supposed to ...
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... pass their time in a manner becoming the life they have lived in a human shape . And in the thousandth year both the kinds of those who have been judged , returning to the lot and election of a second life , shall each of them receive a ...
... pass their time in a manner becoming the life they have lived in a human shape . And in the thousandth year both the kinds of those who have been judged , returning to the lot and election of a second life , shall each of them receive a ...
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... pass into the human form . ” 1 7. It is considered probable that the Egyptian custom of embalming the body had some relation to this religious doctrine , and before the mummy was allowed burial it had to be judged and acquitted by ...
... pass into the human form . ” 1 7. It is considered probable that the Egyptian custom of embalming the body had some relation to this religious doctrine , and before the mummy was allowed burial it had to be judged and acquitted by ...
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... pass through other forms of existence , I desire at every new birth to fulfil my duties towards Buddha , and arrive at the last at the highest and most perfect intelligence . " 25. Having thus surveyed , however imperfectly , the belief ...
... pass through other forms of existence , I desire at every new birth to fulfil my duties towards Buddha , and arrive at the last at the highest and most perfect intelligence . " 25. Having thus surveyed , however imperfectly , the belief ...
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... wondering as they must how it is possible to attach certainty to an existence which passes through the body of various men and animals --something perhaps like a draught of Lethe being adminis- tered 22 THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE .
... wondering as they must how it is possible to attach certainty to an existence which passes through the body of various men and animals --something perhaps like a draught of Lethe being adminis- tered 22 THE UNSEEN UNIVERSE .
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Page 24 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from another star in glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead.
Page 203 - And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment; and he saith unto him, Friend, how earnest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 118 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 151 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Page 152 - I WAGE not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face ; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one.
Page 14 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 150 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 35 - To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
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Page 201 - Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.