Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 1Henry Holt, 1879 |
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... or command ; the tree is the bower of a spirit ; the fountain leaps from the urn of a naiad . In such gay costumes did the laws of nature hold VOL . I. A CELESTIAL PHENOMENA . their carnival until Science struck the hour I.
... or command ; the tree is the bower of a spirit ; the fountain leaps from the urn of a naiad . In such gay costumes did the laws of nature hold VOL . I. A CELESTIAL PHENOMENA . their carnival until Science struck the hour I.
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... spirit , and consecrated as slowly as scientific generalisations now are . Our modern ideas of evolution might suggest the reverse of this - that human worship began with things low and gradually ascended to high objects ; that from ...
... spirit , and consecrated as slowly as scientific generalisations now are . Our modern ideas of evolution might suggest the reverse of this - that human worship began with things low and gradually ascended to high objects ; that from ...
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... spirit in any central form , much less any conception of a Principle of Evil in the universe . The early demons had no moral character , not any more than the man - eating tiger . There is no outburst of moral indignation ming- ling ...
... spirit in any central form , much less any conception of a Principle of Evil in the universe . The early demons had no moral character , not any more than the man - eating tiger . There is no outburst of moral indignation ming- ling ...
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... spirit . To such a conception - love of evil for its own sake - the word Devil is limited in this work ; Demon is applied to beings whose harmfulness is not gratuitous , but inci- dental to their own satisfactions . Deity and Demon are ...
... spirit . To such a conception - love of evil for its own sake - the word Devil is limited in this work ; Demon is applied to beings whose harmfulness is not gratuitous , but inci- dental to their own satisfactions . Deity and Demon are ...
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... spirit , comes from the Slavonic word for God - bog . Appearing here in the West as bogey ( Welsh bwg , a goblin ) , this word bog began , pro- bably , as the ' Baga ' of cuneiform inscriptions , a name of the Supreme Being , or ...
... spirit , comes from the Slavonic word for God - bog . Appearing here in the West as bogey ( Welsh bwg , a goblin ) , this word bog began , pro- bably , as the ' Baga ' of cuneiform inscriptions , a name of the Supreme Being , or ...
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ages Agni Ahriman Alcestis ancient angel animal Apophis appear ascribed Azazel Azru bear beautiful become belief burning called character Chimæra christian dark dead death deities Demonology demons desert devil devouring diseases divine dragon Drisa earth evil eyes fables fear fiery fire flames folklore giant goat goddess gods Gog and Magog haunted head heaven hell Hindu holy human hymns India Indra Jehovah killed king Lambton Worm legend light Max Müller means Moloch monster moon moral mountain myth mythology nature night origin passed Perun popular præternatural priests primitive probably race regions religion represented Rig-Veda rock Rudra sacred sacrifice Sanskrit Saranyu Satan says seen serpent slain snake soul spirits stone story superstition temples terror thee thou tion told tree tribes Typhon Vedic venom Vritra werewolf wild witch wolf word worm worship Zeus
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Seite 13 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Seite 231 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Seite 343 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Seite 346 - 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 334 - He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Seite 187 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat...
Seite 225 - Where the sea-snakes coil and twine, Dry their mail and bask in the brine; Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye?
Seite 226 - in. the world they say. Come,' I said, and we rose through the surf in the bay. We went up the beach, by the sandy down Where the sea-stocks bloom, to the white-wall'd town.
Seite 169 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Seite 259 - who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage ? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us ; he will subdue our iniquities : and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.