Shelburne Essays: Studies of religions dualism. Sixth seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1909 - 355 Seiten |
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... force of these books we must go back to the time of the Vedas and store our memory with those earliest hymns of the Aryan race . There we shall find expressed the confused mythology of a people to whom the spectacle of nature was a ...
... force of these books we must go back to the time of the Vedas and store our memory with those earliest hymns of the Aryan race . There we shall find expressed the confused mythology of a people to whom the spectacle of nature was a ...
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... force of analogy controlled the celestial phenomena . “ Agni is light , light is Agni " ; and again , " The sun is light , light is the sun , " chanted the priest at the evening and morning service of the fire ; and one of the ...
... force of analogy controlled the celestial phenomena . “ Agni is light , light is Agni " ; and again , " The sun is light , light is the sun , " chanted the priest at the evening and morning service of the fire ; and one of the ...
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... force of analogy controlled the celestial phenomena . " Agni is light , light is Agni " ; and again , “ The sun is light , light is the sun , " chanted the priest at the evening and morning service of the fire ; and one of the ...
... force of analogy controlled the celestial phenomena . " Agni is light , light is Agni " ; and again , “ The sun is light , light is the sun , " chanted the priest at the evening and morning service of the fire ; and one of the ...
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... would regard as at work in India to - day , forgetting that political and racial subversions hardly permit Certainly , for a time , and on the more us to reckon on a continuity of religious forces . 8 SHELBURNE ESSAYS.
... would regard as at work in India to - day , forgetting that political and racial subversions hardly permit Certainly , for a time , and on the more us to reckon on a continuity of religious forces . 8 SHELBURNE ESSAYS.
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... force impelling the world , nor yet in obedience to a personal God , but is already within us awaiting revelation , is in fact our very Self of Self . The thought , as it comes down to us from those ancient sages , may only what in a ...
... force impelling the world , nor yet in obedience to a personal God , but is already within us awaiting revelation , is in fact our very Self of Self . The thought , as it comes down to us from those ancient sages , may only what in a ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
allegory Anaxagoras antinomy Anytus Athenians Athens Augustine Augustine's beauty believe Brahma Bunyan called century Christ Christian corrupted creed dæmons death deism deists Descartes desire divine doctrine dogma doubt dualism earth egotism emotion Epictetus escape eternal evil eyes faculty faith fear feel felicity finite friends gods Grace harmony hear heart heaven Hindu honour human ideas ignorance imagination India individual infinite inner instinct Jansenists Jesuits knowledge learned light live look man's Manichæan Manichæism mankind matter Meletus ment mind moral mystery mystical nature never oracle Pascal pass passions Pelagianism philosophy Plato Port-Royal quincunxes rationalism reality reason Religio Medici religion religious righteousness Rousseau seems sense shadows Sir Thomas Browne society Socrates soul speak spirit suppose sympathy talk theology theory things thou thought tion true truth understanding unto Upanishads virtue voice whole wisdom words Xanthippe Xenophon Yajnavalkya
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 156 - The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Seite 168 - For my descent then, it was, as is well known by many, of a low and inconsiderable generation; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.
Seite 163 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name ; yet our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence concerning him, is our silence, when we confess without confession, that his glory is inexplicable, hie greatness above our capacity and reach.
Seite 188 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame. The mind's disease, its ruling passion came...
Seite 163 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 161 - And surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere dreams, to those of the next, as the phantasms of the night, to the conceit of the day.
Seite 159 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have...
Seite 163 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Seite 157 - Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a History, but a piece of Poetry, and would sound to common ears like a Fable.
Seite 89 - Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves : the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God ; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self.