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Æsir Ahriman Ahura Ahura Mazda ancient ancient Egypt Aryan Avesta Aztec beautiful became belief body Brahmanism Buddha Buddhism Bushyasta called century character China Chinese Christ Christianity civilisation conception Confucius creed dead death deities distinct divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian element eternal evil existence faith finite fire Fravashis gods Greece Greek hand heart heathen heaven highest holy human idea immortality Indian influence Israel Jehovah Judaism king kingdom light ligion living Lord Mahommed Mahommedan man's Mazda Mazdean ment mind monotheism moral myth mythology nature ness Nirvana Odin origin Osiris pagan pantheistic Persian philosophical polytheism prayer present priest principle prophet Qurân race regarded religion religious represented revelation rites Roman sacred sacrifice sense soul spirit stone supreme temples things Thor thou thought tion traced truth unity whole words worship younger Edda Zoroaster
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Page 55 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Page 285 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 342 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born* of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Page 175 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 10 - And doubtless, sometimes, when the hair was shed Upon the flowing stream, a thought arose Of Life continuous, Being unimpaired; That hath been, is, and where it was and is There shall...
Page 319 - God is the light of the heavens and the earth : His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, and the lamp is in a glass ; the glass is as though it were a glittering star...
Page 223 - Fates, — the Past, Present, Future ; watering its roots from the Sacred Well. Its 'boughs,' with their buddings and disleafings, — Events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times.
Page 318 - When the sun shall be folded up ; and when the stars shall fall ; and when the mountains shall be made to pass away ; and when the camels ten months gone with young shall be neglected ; and when the wild beasts shall be gathered together...
Page 49 - In order to answer this question it will be necessary to examine somewhat more closely than has hitherto been done the system established by the earlier legislation, as well as the change effected by those Acts. The Manitoba School Act of...
Page 85 - ... •What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.