Yoga, Or, Transformation: A Comparative Statement of the Various Religious Dogmas Concerning the Soul and Its Destiny, and of Akkadian, Hindu, Taoist, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Christian, Mohammedan, Japanese and Other Magic |
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according acts Akkadian ancestor worship angels ascetic attained become belief bodily body Brahman Brahmarandhra breath Buddhism called Chaldean Chinese Christian Chuang-Tzu Church clothing concentration contemplation dæmons dead death devil divine doctrine earth earthly Egyptian Egyptian soul Enneads Eskimos eternal evil existence eyes fact faith fire force give gods Hatha Yoga heaven hell Hindu Hindu Yoga Hinduism human immortality intelligence Jesus Kalevala kind knowledge Kundalini learned living magic magician means meditation ment mental methods mind modern moral movement Mudra mystical nature Neoplatonism Neoplatonists object old Taoism perfect philosophy Pingala Plotinus prayer priests principle prophets prove punishment Quietism race re-birth reason religion religious result revelation sages saint Samadhi says seems sense Shinto Siddhis spiritual world supernatural supposed Sushumna Swedenborg Taoism tatwas teachings tell things thou thought tion true universal soul Upanishads Vedanta virtue whole word world of spirits yoga practice yogi
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Page 52 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 251 - Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters : and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years : and he died. And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah : and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters : and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years : and Enoch walked with God : and he was not; for God took him.
Page 252 - And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died : his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Page 35 - ... the soul which is of the third class shall be a politician, or economist, or trader; the fourth shall be a lover of gymnastic toils, or a physician...
Page 240 - Is it not wheat harvest to-day ? I will call unto the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain ; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking you a king. So Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day : and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
Page 240 - And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
Page 240 - And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh...
Page 259 - There is, perhaps, no phase in the moral history of mankind of a deeper or more painful interest than this ascetic epidemic. A hideous, sordid, and emaciated maniac, without knowledge, without patriotism, without natural affection, passing his life in a long routine of useless and atrocious self-torture, and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates and Cato.
Page 35 - ... the soul which has seen most of truth shall come to the birth as a philosopher, or artist, or some musical and loving nature...