An Exposition of the Mysteries; Or, Religious Dogmas and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Pythagoreans, and Druidsauthor, 1835 - 403 pages |
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... sacrifices , the ceremonial , and the very objects them- selves , of idolatry , were prior to Moses and the holy scriptures , they have maintained , that the laws and the ceremonies of the Hebrews were an imitation of the customs of ...
... sacrifices , the ceremonial , and the very objects them- selves , of idolatry , were prior to Moses and the holy scriptures , they have maintained , that the laws and the ceremonies of the Hebrews were an imitation of the customs of ...
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... sacrifice was intended to be made in the day , Isis was dressed in white , but if in the night she was dressed in black . They put a sickle in her hand to denote the time of harvest . When the pur- pose of a feast was to remind the ...
... sacrifice was intended to be made in the day , Isis was dressed in white , but if in the night she was dressed in black . They put a sickle in her hand to denote the time of harvest . When the pur- pose of a feast was to remind the ...
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... sacrifices and public prayers upon eminent places , and more especially in groves , to shel- ter the people from the heat of the sun . When the Isis which pro- claimed the feasts , and whose figures were one of the finest parts of the ...
... sacrifices and public prayers upon eminent places , and more especially in groves , to shel- ter the people from the heat of the sun . When the Isis which pro- claimed the feasts , and whose figures were one of the finest parts of the ...
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... sacrifice was to be made at night , they put an owl near the figure that proclaimed it . The Isis then was called Lilith , that is the owl ; and this visi . bly is the origin of that nocturnal lilith of whom so many tales have been told ...
... sacrifice was to be made at night , they put an owl near the figure that proclaimed it . The Isis then was called Lilith , that is the owl ; and this visi . bly is the origin of that nocturnal lilith of whom so many tales have been told ...
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... sacrifice , and the invocation of the true God ; as may be easily proved from their warlike cries , that signified , The Lord is the mighty ; the Lord is my strength ; Jo Saboi , † Deus mihi exercitus . The Lord is an host to me ; the ...
... sacrifice , and the invocation of the true God ; as may be easily proved from their warlike cries , that signified , The Lord is the mighty ; the Lord is my strength ; Jo Saboi , † Deus mihi exercitus . The Lord is an host to me ; the ...
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Page 341 - And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them : And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them : and they perished from among the congregation.
Page 115 - Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God. Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Page 314 - And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, " For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever.
Page 312 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory: The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in.
Page 331 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Page 312 - THE earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? or who shall stand in his holy place...
Page 314 - NOW when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
Page 174 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 340 - Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, (which is King of peace,) without father, without mother, without descent having neither beginning of days nor end of life ; but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually.
Page 326 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.