Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the lower animals . A series of examples from among the native tribes of America , will serve well to show the various ways in which such ...
... beasts , can at least admit without difficulty the transmission of human souls into the bodies of the lower animals . A series of examples from among the native tribes of America , will serve well to show the various ways in which such ...
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... beast , man , deity . Thus all creatures differ rather in degree than kind , all are akin to man , an elephant or ape ... beasts , snakes , worms , insects , and inert things . Obscure as the relation mostly is between the crime and its ...
... beast , man , deity . Thus all creatures differ rather in degree than kind , all are akin to man , an elephant or ape ... beasts , snakes , worms , insects , and inert things . Obscure as the relation mostly is between the crime and its ...
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... beast or pariah ; he who adulterously dishonours his guru or spiritual father shall be a hundred times re - born as grass , a bush , a creeper , a carrion bird , a beast of prey ; the cruel shall become blood- thirsty beasts ; stealers ...
... beast or pariah ; he who adulterously dishonours his guru or spiritual father shall be a hundred times re - born as grass , a bush , a creeper , a carrion bird , a beast of prey ; the cruel shall become blood- thirsty beasts ; stealers ...
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... beasts . Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls trans- migrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of object - souls.2 Buddhism , like the Brahmanism from which it seceded , habitually recognized ...
... beasts . Moreover , the Brahmanic doctrine of souls trans- migrating into inert things has in like manner a bearing on the savage theory of object - souls.2 Buddhism , like the Brahmanism from which it seceded , habitually recognized ...
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... beast , afterwards as a preta or sprite ; a proud man may be born again ugly with large lips , or as a demon or a The Buddhist theory of " karma " or " action , " which controls the destiny of all sentient beings , not by judicial ...
... beast , afterwards as a preta or sprite ; a proud man may be born again ugly with large lips , or as a demon or a The Buddhist theory of " karma " or " action , " which controls the destiny of all sentient beings , not by judicial ...
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