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... ages to gain the power of freeing sentient beings from the misery inherent in all existence . Four times he became Maha Brahma , twenty times the dewa Sekra , and many times or few he passed through such stages as a hermit , a king , a ...
... ages to gain the power of freeing sentient beings from the misery inherent in all existence . Four times he became Maha Brahma , twenty times the dewa Sekra , and many times or few he passed through such stages as a hermit , a king , a ...
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... ages , came at last to animate the souls of Fourier and Soame Jenyns.2 Thus we have traced the theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa ...
... ages , came at last to animate the souls of Fourier and Soame Jenyns.2 Thus we have traced the theory of metempsychosis in stage after stage of the world's civilization , scattered among the native races of America and Africa ...
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... ages , may be found in the writings of a modern theologian whose spiritualism often follows to the extreme the intellectual tracks of the lower races . In the spiritual world , says Emanuel Swedenborg , such persons as have opened ...
... ages , may be found in the writings of a modern theologian whose spiritualism often follows to the extreme the intellectual tracks of the lower races . In the spiritual world , says Emanuel Swedenborg , such persons as have opened ...
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... , ' vol . ii . p . 158. For modern visits to hell and heaven by Chris- tianized negro visionaries in America , see Macrae , ' Americans at Home , ' vol . ii . p . 91 . tales represent the belief of their age , if not 52 ANIMISM .
... , ' vol . ii . p . 158. For modern visits to hell and heaven by Chris- tianized negro visionaries in America , see Macrae , ' Americans at Home , ' vol . ii . p . 91 . tales represent the belief of their age , if not 52 ANIMISM .
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Edward Burnett Tylor. tales represent the belief of their age , if not of their author . His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he ...
Edward Burnett Tylor. tales represent the belief of their age , if not of their author . His Eukrates looks down the chasm into Hades , and sees the dead reclining on the asphodel in companies of kinsfolk and friends ; among them he ...
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