 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 378 pages
...nations, and it was thought by the vulgar that thesepriests could, by: their incantations and invocations, affect the future welfare of mankind. Having, by their...them, expecting through their means to obtain the favour and good-will of God ; so that they esteemed them as mediators between God and themselves. In... | |
 | George Oliver - Initiations (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) - 1829 - 318 pages
...benefits, or circumscribe its blessings. But after the flood the altar of Darknessf was this notion, they began to build temples to the stars, to sacrifice to them and to worship them, in the vain expectation that they should thus please the Creator of all things.... | |
 | John Wilson - Christianity and other religions - 1832 - 168 pages
...the servants of a great prince justly claim from me subjtct multitude. Impressed with this notion, they began to build temples to the Stars, to sacrifice to them, and to worship them, in the vain expectation, that they should thus please the Creator of all things.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1839 - 88 pages
...the servants of a great prince justly claim from the subject multitude. Impressed with this notion, they began to build temples to the stars, to sacrifice to them, and to worship them, in the vain expectation, that they should thus please the Creator of all things.... | |
 | Robert Macoy - Freemasons - 1855 - 356 pages
...the servants of a great prince justly claim from the subject multitude. Impressed with this notion, they began to build temples to the stars, to sacrifice to them, and to worship them, in the vain expectation that they should thus please the Creator of all things.... | |
 | Joseph Dame Weeks - 1874 - 312 pages
...and, as there were no sing1ng angels to tell them a better story, they fell down and worshiped. "Men began to build temples to the stars, to sacrifice to them, to worship them, in the vain expectation that they should thus please the Creator of all things."8 For... | |
 | J. G. Mandley - Women - 1880 - 180 pages
...the servants of a great prince justly claim from the subject multitude. Impressed with this notion, they began to build temples to the stars, to sacrifice to them, and to worreason to believe it was — one of the very earliest sciences on which the human mind became... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1871 - 892 pages
...the servants of a great prince justly claim from the subject multitude. Impressed with this notion, they began to build temples to the Stars, to sacrifice to them, and to worship them, m the vain expectation that they should thus please the Creator of all things.... | |
 | 1883 - 652 pages
...subject Maimonides writes, and is quoted by Faber, as fola subject multitude. Impressed with this notion, they began to build temples to the stars, to sacrifice to them, and to worship them in the expectation that they should thus please the Creator of all things. At first... | |
 | 1891 - 780 pages
...the ground watching the stars, felt their souls awed within them, and fell down and worshiped. " Men began to build temples to the stars, to sacrifice to them, to worship them, in vain expectation that they should thiis please the Creator of all things."8 For four... | |
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His will that they should receive from man the same veneration as the servants of a great prince justly claim from the subject multitude. Impressed with this notion, they began to build temples to the Stars, to sacrifice to them, and to worship them,... 