Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 2Henry Holt, 1879 |
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... Avesta , there are other characteristics of that ancient scripture which render it more probable that the early colonisation of Persia was , like that of New England , the result of a religious struggle . Some of the gods most adored in ...
... Avesta , there are other characteristics of that ancient scripture which render it more probable that the early colonisation of Persia was , like that of New England , the result of a religious struggle . Some of the gods most adored in ...
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... Avesta does not leave us in any doubt as to the main fact , —namely , that at a certain time and place man came to a point where he had to confront antagonism to fundamental moral principles , and that he AVESTA ON GOOD AND EVIL . 25 ...
... Avesta does not leave us in any doubt as to the main fact , —namely , that at a certain time and place man came to a point where he had to confront antagonism to fundamental moral principles , and that he AVESTA ON GOOD AND EVIL . 25 ...
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... Avesta . The following is a very ancient Gâthâ : - All your Devas ( Hindu ' gods ' ) are only manifold children of the Evil Mind , and the great One who worships the Saoma of lies and deceits ; besides the treacherous acts for which you ...
... Avesta . The following is a very ancient Gâthâ : - All your Devas ( Hindu ' gods ' ) are only manifold children of the Evil Mind , and the great One who worships the Saoma of lies and deceits ; besides the treacherous acts for which you ...
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... Avesta gradually grew a theology and a mythology which were destined to exert a powerful influence on the world . These are contained in the Bundehesch.1 Anterior to all things and all beings was Zeruane - Akrene ( ' Boundless Time ...
... Avesta gradually grew a theology and a mythology which were destined to exert a powerful influence on the world . These are contained in the Bundehesch.1 Anterior to all things and all beings was Zeruane - Akrene ( ' Boundless Time ...
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... divine ray preserved enables him to receive and obey the Avesta , and to climb to heaven by the stairway of three vast steps - pure thought , pure word , pure deed . PARSI ESCHATOLOGY . 29 The optimistic essence of the mythology.
... divine ray preserved enables him to receive and obey the Avesta , and to climb to heaven by the stairway of three vast steps - pure thought , pure word , pure deed . PARSI ESCHATOLOGY . 29 The optimistic essence of the mythology.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 384 - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Seite 163 - And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
Seite 57 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Seite 59 - For the mystery of iniquity doth already work : only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming...
Seite 61 - Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven." And this word, "Yet once more," signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Seite 69 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...
Seite 205 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; not to be reckoned one character; not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Seite 233 - If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him, but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him?
Seite 114 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Seite 130 - I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.